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"Coal: America's Mega-Emitters Are Starting To Close" [1]

"When the Navajo Generating Station in Arizona shuts down later this year, it will be one of the largest carbon emitters to ever close in American history."

Source: ClimateWire [2], 08/19/2019

"Brexit Could Spark The Next Big Fishing War" [3]

"Britain’s looming exit from the European Union threatens to spark a new fishing war ― one that risks depleting stocks at a moment when warming seas are already stressing aquatic populations."

Source: HuffPost [4], 08/19/2019

"Why The U.S. Disaster Agency Isn't Ready For Catastrophes" [5]

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency has wasted more than $3 billion and misused thousands of its employees by responding to hundreds of undersized floods, storms and other events that states could have handled on their own, an investigation by E&E News shows."

Source: ClimateWire [6], 08/19/2019

"Oil Companies Persuade States to Make Pipeline Protests a Felony" [7]

"After protesters disrupted construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota by chaining themselves to construction equipment and pitching tents along the route, oil and chemical companies found a way to keep it from happening again. They made it a crime."

Source: Bloomberg [8], 08/19/2019

Car Rules: Judge Bumped From Case After Slamming Climate Science Event [9]

"A federal appeals court shuffled the judges assigned to an upcoming climate case after an internal dispute arose over one panel member's apparent hostility to a climate science event."

Source: Greenwire [10], 08/19/2019

"5 Things to Watch at This Month’s Big Wildlife Trade Treaty Meeting" [11]

"New wildlife trade rules being discussed at CITES could affect 550 species, including elephants, rhinos and giraffes."

Source: The Revelator [12], 08/19/2019

Dem AGs Slam EPA Plan To Limit Review Of Pesticide Impacts On Species [13]

"Eleven state attorneys general are pushing back against an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal they say would weaken the process for determining whether pesticides are harmful to endangered species."

Source: The Hill [14], 08/19/2019

In Iowa, Candidates Talk About Farming's Climate Change Connections [15]

"As the Democratic candidates for president made their requisite swing through the Iowa State Fair this week, they stumped near hay bales and posted about it on Twitter. They also brought an unprecedented focus on agriculture's connections with climate change—an issue that's getting more traction among rural Midwestern voters and farmers in the wake of massive flooding and heat waves."

Source: InsideClimate News [16], 08/19/2019

"Bristol Bay: EPA Deleted Scientists' Concerns About Pebble Analysis" [17]

"EPA scientists wanted their agency to ask for a new environmental review of the proposed Pebble mine project but were overridden by political staffers, according to several sources and a key document obtained by E&E News."

Source: Greenwire [18], 08/19/2019

Photos Reveal the Pollination Secrets of Florida’s Most Elusive Flower [19]

"The ghost orchid is one of the rarest and most mysterious flowers in North America. Until recently, scientists could only guess at how the 2,000 or so plants that cling to the trees in Florida’s remote old-growth swamp forests are pollinated—no one had ever photographed the event before."

Source: Audubon magazine [20], 08/16/2019

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