"New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell filed a lawsuit Friday (March 29) against Entergy New Orleans, Chevron U.S.A. Inc, ExxonMobil Pipeline Company and eight other oil and gas companies, demanding they repair damage caused by exploration, production and pipeline construction activities to wetlands along the city’s eastern edges."
"The widespread, severe flooding in the Midwest over the last month has exposed the vulnerabilities in a levee system that is now so full of holes that many here ruefully describe it as “Swiss cheese.”"
"President Trump signed a new order Friday granting permission for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, marking the White House’s latest effort to jump-start one of the most controversial infrastructure proposals in recent U.S. history."
"In a major legal blow to President Trump’s push to expand offshore oil and gas development, a federal judge ruled that an executive order by Mr. Trump that lifted an Obama-era ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean and parts of the North Atlantic coast was unlawful."
"A fractured EPA advisory panel is asking for help as its ability to handle a high-stakes review of particulate matter standards is under harsh scrutiny."
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"Ludovic Burns Tuki first felt the chill of climate change while diving in the waters around his home on Easter Island, locally known as Rapa Nui, a remote land mass in the South Pacific famed for its distinctive ancient stone statues."
"U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has approved six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, according to a copy of a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday."
"Something is killing apple trees across the American countryside, and the epidemic is reaching plague-like levels. Worst yet, scientists are completely clueless as to what is causing the mysterious pestilence."
"The catastrophic flooding in the Midwest is forcing more farmers to consider a stark choice: quit or consolidate."
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[2] https://www.nola.com/environment/2019/03/new-orleans-files-wetland-damage-suit-against-oil-gas-companies.html
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/flooding-bursts-midwest-levees-and-tough-questions-follow
[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/31/us/midwest-floods-levees.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-signs-permit-construction-embattled-keystone-xl-pipeline
[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/03/29/trump-signs-permit-construction-controversial-keystone-xl-pipeline/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.177a623e651c
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/judge-overturns-trump%E2%80%99s-order-open-arctic-waters-oil-drilling
[8] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/climate/trump-oil-drilling-arctic.html
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/air-pollution-epa-panel-urges-wheeler-bring-back-fired-experts
[10] https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060134247
[11] https://www.sej.org/calendar/straddling-climate-and-policy-divide-colorado-journalists-roundtable
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chill-waters-arid-land-climate-change-arrives-easter-island
[13] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-environment-easter-island/chill-waters-arid-land-climate-change-arrives-on-easter-island-idUSKCN1R812M
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-approved-secret-nuclear-power-work-saudi-arabia
[15] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-nuclear/u-s-approved-secret-nuclear-power-work-for-saudi-arabia-idUSKCN1R82MG?il=0
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/apple-trees-mysteriously-dying-all-across-america-and-nobody-knows-why
[17] https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/apple-trees-are-mysteriously-dying-all-across-america-and-nobody-knows-why
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-change-and-death-small-farm
[19] https://newrepublic.com/article/153390/climate-change-death-small-farm
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