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As Confirmation Nears, Judge Orders EPA Nominee To Release Emails [3]

"An Oklahoma judge on Thursday ordered Scott Pruitt, the state’s attorney general and President Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, to turn over thousands of emails related to his communication with the oil, gas and coal industry."

Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Washington Post [11], 02/17/2017
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"E.P.A. Workers Try to Block Pruitt in Show of Defiance" [12]

"Employees of the Environmental Protection Agency have been calling their senators to urge them to vote on Friday against the confirmation of Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s contentious nominee to run the agency, a remarkable display of activism and defiance that presages turbulent times ahead for the E.P.A."

Environmental Politics [6]
Government [13]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: NY Times [14], 02/17/2017
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EPA’s Social-Media Accounts Have Been Silent Since The Inauguration [15]

"Nearly a month after the presidential inauguration — and after being subject to temporary media blackout shortly thereafter — the Environmental Protection Agency has remained silent on social media, even while other federal agencies have gone on communicating as usual. In fact, the agency has posted nothing on its official Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts since Jan. 19, the day before President Trump was sworn into office."

Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Washington Post [16], 02/17/2017
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"Trump Admin Removes Energy Department's Public Employee Directory" [17]

"The Department of Energy has taken down its public-facing employee directory, making it far more difficult for journalists and members of the public to locate email addresses and phone numbers for agency personnel."

Environmental Politics [6]
Government [13]
Journalism & Media [7]
Science [18]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Mashable [19], 02/17/2017
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Resistance Is Growing To The USDA’s Blackout Of Animal Welfare Records [20]

"The condemnation was swift when the Agriculture Department announced two weeks ago that it had pulled from its website the animal welfare records from 9,000 research labs, dog breeders and other facilities. ... This week, the department was sued over its move, and federal lawmakers began pressing the Trump administration to again make the records public."

Agriculture [21]
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Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Washington Post [22], 02/17/2017
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Experts Paint A Dire Portrait Of Climate Change’s Public Health Impacts [23]

"ATLANTA — In a gathering impacted by presidential politics, an all-star cast of public health experts largely stuck to their own bleak script: Climate change is poised to unleash an unprecedented, global public health crisis."

Climate Change [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Science [18]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Daily Climate [26], 02/17/2017
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NASA Communicating Climate Change Science, Defying Trump’s Doubts [27]

"If you peruse NASA’s social media feeds dedicated to climate change, you would have no clue a new administration has taken power that has expressed doubts about the reality or seriousness of the issue."

Climate Change [24]
Journalism & Media [7]
Science [18]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Washington Post [28], 02/17/2017
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Warming Climate Lowers Ocean Oxygen Levels: Scientists [29]

"A large research synthesis, published in one of the world’s most influential scientific journals, has detected a decline in the amount of dissolved oxygen in oceans around the world — a long-predicted result of climate change that could have severe consequences for marine organisms if it continues."

Climate Change [24]
Science [18]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [9]
International [31]
Source: Washington Post [32], 02/17/2017
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Daughter Of Coal Country Battles Climate Change And Her Father's Doubt [33]

"The economy in southwestern Pennsylvania has been hit twice, once by the collapse of big mining and steel employers, and again by the environmental destruction that accompanied those industries."

Climate Change [24]
Environmental Politics [6]
People & Population [34]
Public [9]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
Source: NPR [36], 02/17/2017
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"Scientists' Group Launches Website to Help Federal Whistleblowers" [37]

"Fearing an assault on science from the Trump administration, the Union of Concerned Scientists is creating a way for federal scientists to report abuses."

Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Science [18]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: InsideClimate News [38], 02/16/2017
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"Governor Orders Evacuation Of Dakota Pipeline Protest Camp" [39]

"The governor of North Dakota ordered protesters on Wednesday to evacuate a demonstration camp near the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline in the latest move to clear the area that has served as a base for opposition to the multibillion dollar project."

Activism [40]
Energy & Fuel [5]
People & Population [34]
Waste [41]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Reuters [42], 02/16/2017
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"Navajo Nation Abandoned Uranium Mines Cleanup Gets $600 Million" [43]

"After 50 years, mining companies will pay for cleanup at 94 abandoned uranium mines on Navajo Nation. A historic, $600 million settlement agreement reached by the Navajo Nation, the United States and two subsidiaries of the mining company Freeport-McMoRan aims to address a legacy of uranium mining that stretches back to 1944."

Economy & Business [4]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [44]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [45]
Public [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [46]
Source: Indian Country Today [47], 02/16/2017
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"Collins To Vote Against Trump’s EPA Pick" [48]

"Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) will vote against confirming President Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."

Environmental Politics [6]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: The Hill [49], 02/16/2017
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Likely Trump Science Adviser Calls Climate Scientists 'Glassy-Eyed Cult' [50]

"William Happer, frontrunner for job of providing mainstream scientific opinion to officials, backs crackdown on federal scientists’ freedom to speak out". "The man tipped as frontrunner for the role of science adviser to Donald Trump has described climate scientists as 'a glassy-eyed cult' in the throes of a form of collective madness."

Activism [40]
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Science [18]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Guardian [51], 02/16/2017
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"Special Master Hands Ga. A Victory In Southeast Water War" [52]

"Georgia yesterday notched a big win in the ongoing Southeast water wars when a special master advised the Supreme Court to reject Florida's claims about the Peach State's excessive water use."

Laws & Regulations [8]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [53]
Source: Greenwire [54], 02/16/2017
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