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"Politics: Climate Change Returns To Center Stage In House" [1]

"House Democrats this morning brought climate change back to the political forefront for the first time in nearly a decade and were met with a Republican tone shift far from the skeptical attitude the GOP has taken to the issue for years."

Source: Greenwire [2], 02/07/2019

2018 Was One Of Hottest Years On Record — This Year Could Be Hotter [3]

"All five of the hottest years on record have occurred in the last five years, according to global temperature data released Wednesday by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."

Source: LA Times [4], 02/07/2019

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Outline" [5]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass. have released the text of a resolution they plan to introduce, a framework defining what they call a "Green New Deal" — what they foresee as a massive policy package that would remake the U.S. economy and, they hope, eliminate all U.S. carbon emissions.

Source: NPR [6], 02/07/2019

The News Project [7]

TNP's "news business in a box” — backed by a team of journalists, technologists, designers and news business professionals — offers features for professional publishing, as well as tools for monetization, content creation, distribution, customer engagement and business-critical insights.

Teaching Future Environmental Journalists [8]

Dave Poulson February 6, 2019 — Write shorter, leave the office, use fewer acronyms, be a journalist not an environmentalist, recognize that every beat covers the environment, be creative across diverse platforms. Be a tough watchdog, a policy expert, a feature writer.

"Michigan Governor Revamps Environmental Agency After Flint" [9]

"Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took steps Monday to restructure and rename the state environmental agency that drew criticism for its handling of the Flint water crisis under former Gov. Rick Snyder."

Source: AP [10], 02/06/2019

Court Orders Vale To Stop Using Tailings Dams As Death Toll Tops 120 [11]

"A Brazilian state court has ordered Vale SA to refrain from disposing of tailings at eight of its dams, in the wake of the environmental disaster last month, which spilled 3 billion gallons of mining waste, obliterated a town, killed more than 120 people and has likely buried another 200 people under several yards of contaminated mud."

Source: NPR [12], 02/06/2019

EPA Confirms Sterigenics Emits Cancer-Causing Gas, But Still Won't Act [13]

"Sterigenics is still venting ethylene oxide into neighborhoods surrounding its facility in west suburban Willowbrook, according to federal testing that revealed spikes of the volatile, cancer-causing gas higher than concentrations detected before the company installed new pollution-control equipment last year. But a top Trump administration official told residents on Tuesday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t have enough evidence to take action against the company."

Source: Chicago Tribune [14], 02/06/2019

Fact Check: Trump Touts US as Net Energy Exporter, But He’s a Bit Early [15]

"President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address Tuesday night to tout “a revolution in American energy” that has made the U.S. “a net exporter” -- but some of his celebration might be premature."

Source: Bloomberg [16], 02/06/2019

"Appeals Court Allows Quick-Take Of Land For Mountain Valley Pipeline" [17]

"An appeals court has upheld the “take first, pay later” approach to building the Mountain Valley Pipeline, in which the company condemned private property in the project’s path before paying opposing landowners for their losses."

Source: Roanoke Times [18], 02/06/2019

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