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"Trump and California Go To War Over Clean Cars" [1]

"U.S. President Donald Trump and the state of California went to war on Wednesday over who should set the standards in the United States for vehicle emissions and electric cars, foreshadowing a legal battle over environmental policy issues that will affect the auto industry and consumers."

Source: Reuters [2], 09/19/2019

"Air Pollution: EPA Stacks Key Advisory Pool With Industry Insiders" [3]

"One is a senior-level retiree from a power company that has battled stricter environmental regulations for decades. Two are industry consultants who helped co-author a 2015 paper questioning the approach that led EPA to tighten its national ozone standards later that year. A fourth, on the advisory board of a conservative nonprofit, questions evidence of the long-term health risks posed by exposure to fine particulates."

Source: E&E News PM [4], 09/19/2019

Judge Blocks South Dakota Law Barring Pipeline Protests [5]

"A judge on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of South Dakota’s new “riot-boosting” law, which passed earlier this year to deter pipeline protests. The law threatens heavy penalties for any person or group that encourages a “riot,” which is defined broadly enough to include many forms of public protest."

Source: Mother Jones [6], 09/19/2019

"EPA: Facing Fines, Polluters Turn To Trump's Enforcement Fixer" [7]

"When career EPA enforcement staffers accused an Indiana whiskey distillery of emitting massive quantities of smog-forming pollution, Patrice Douglas knew just who to call."

Source: Greenwire [8], 09/19/2019

Kavli Conversations on Science Communication: Covering Epidemics [9]

Come to New York University, 6:00-8:00 p.m. (or online at 6:30 p.m.), for a conversation about covering epidemics, Ebola and beyond, with Nature reporter Amy Maxmen and Nahid Bhadelia, medical director of BU's Special Pathogens Unit, moderated by Robert Lee Hotz of The Wall Street Journal.

U.N. Climate Action Summit 2019 [10]

The United Nations Secretary-General is calling on all leaders to come to New York on September 23, 2019 with concrete, realistic plans to enhance their nationally determined contributions by 2020, in line with reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent over the next decade, and to net zero emissions by 2050.

"Ice Bound: Our Reporter Boards An Icebreaker For 6 Weeks. Here's Why" [11]

"An E&E News reporter spends six weeks on an icebreaker with scientists who are unraveling the mysteries of the Arctic."

Source: ClimateWire [12], 09/18/2019

Regenerative Agriculture Connects the Dots Between Soil and Plate [13]

"The public and private sectors are rapidly picking up efforts to ramp up carbon farming."

Source: Civil Eats [14], 09/18/2019

"Fossil Fuel Execs To Hold Invite-Only Forum At UN Climate Summit" [15]

"Oil and gas executives are holding an exclusive invitation-only forum with environmentalists and government representatives on the sidelines of the UN climate summit, in what critics have condemned as an attempt to influence negotiations in favour of fossil fuel companies."

Source: Guardian [16], 09/18/2019

"Greta Thunberg to Congress: ‘You’re Not Trying Hard Enough. Sorry’" [17]

"At a meeting of the Senate climate crisis task force on Tuesday, lawmakers praised a group of young activists for their leadership, their gumption and their display of wisdom far beyond their years. They then asked the teens for advice on how Congress might combat one of the most urgent and politically contentious threats confronting world leaders: climate change."

Source: Guardian [18], 09/18/2019

Kavli Conversations on Science Communication: Covering Epidemics [9]

U.N. Climate Action Summit 2019 [10]

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