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"The First Democratic Debate Failed The Planet" [1]

"At a debate held in a sinking city, only four candidates were directly asked about the climate crisis."

Source: New Republic [2], 06/27/2019

EPA's Wehrum Steps Down Amid Scrutiny Over Possible Ethics Violations [3]

"Bill Wehrum, a top Environmental Protection Agency official who helped reverse Obama-era rules aimed at cutting emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants, is stepping down amid scrutiny over possible violations of federal ethics rules."

Source: Washington Post [4], 06/27/2019

SEJ Objects to EPA's 'Freedom of Information Act Regulations Update' [5]

June 26, 2019 — The Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), in a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler, objected to the EPA's June 26 Final Rulemaking entitled "Freedom of Information Act Regulations Update [6]." The letter states that the rule "enables the agency to limit public access to EPA records that are legally public information" and "the highly irregular procedure of issuing a final rule without proposal or public comments is unjustified and unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)."

"Fireworks Firms Plan Bigger Pyrotechnics For Trump’s Fourth Speech" [7]

"The Trump administration has enlisted the help of two private fireworks firms to put on an extended pyrotechnics display as part of the president’s overhaul of the nation’s Independence Day celebration on the Mall."

Source: Washington Post [8], 06/26/2019

"EPA Announces Reversal of Decades-Old Air Toxics Policy" [9]

"The EPA is reversing a 24-year-old air policy that would allow power plants, refineries and other industrial sources to avoid stringent controls for toxic air pollution, it announced June 25."

Source: Bloomberg Environment [10], 06/26/2019

G20 Summit May Sideline Climate to Keep Trump Happy During Trade Talks [11]

"Those hoping for political leadership in the face of the climate emergency are in for yet more disappointment, with the G20 group of powerful nations possibly set to avoid strong commitments to tackling the issue."

Source: Fortune [12], 06/26/2019

"As Coal Fades in the US, Natural Gas Becomes the Climate Battleground" [13]

"America’s coal-burning power plants are shutting down at a rapid pace, forcing electric utilities to face the next big climate question: Embrace natural gas, or shift aggressively to renewable energy?"

Source: NY Times [14], 06/26/2019

"Feds: Record Oil Leak 100 Times Greater Than Company Says" [15]

"A record 14-year-old oil leak off the coast of Louisiana is not releasing as much crude into the Gulf of Mexico as recent estimates suggest, but it's still spewing between 100 and 900 times more than claimed by the company involved in the incident, a study from NOAA and the Department of Commerce found yesterday.

Taylor Energy Co. LLC's oil platform, Saratoga A, fell during Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Extreme waves caused a subsurface mudslide at Mississippi Canyon 20 in the Gulf where the platform sat in more than 400 feet of water.

Source: EnergyWire [16], 06/26/2019

Opinion: "When Pollution Is a Matter of Life and Death" [17]

"The E.P.A. found that a small town in Louisiana was overloaded with carcinogens. Why didn’t that mean the government had to act?"

Source: NY Times [18], 06/26/2019

"Chennai, an Indian City of Nearly 5 Million, Is Running Out of Water" [19]

"The water is almost gone. Satellite photographs reveal the stark shrinking of one of the main rain-fed reservoirs that serves Chennai, one of the biggest cities in India."

Source: NY Times [20], 06/26/2019

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