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Climate-Fueled Weather Disasters Hit 62 Million People in 2018: WMO [1]

"Extreme weather events, supercharged by climate change, affected some 62 million people around the world in 2018, the United Nations' weather agency said Thursday."

Source: USA TODAY [2], 04/01/2019

"Security: Hackers Force Water Utilities To Sink Or Swim" [3]

"Last month, hackers tied computers into knots at a small Colorado water utility."

Source: EnergyWire [4], 04/01/2019

"ACLU Sues South Dakota Over Pipeline Protest Legislation" [5]

"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of South Dakota has sued the state over a series of new laws critics say violate the First Amendment rights of anti-pipeline activists."

Source: The Hill [6], 04/01/2019

Dem Asks For Probe Into Bernhardt's Role In Halting Species Report [7]

"A Democratic lawmaker has asked the Interior Department's watchdog to look into reports that President Trump's nominee to lead the agency directly intervened to stop the release of a study linking the effects of two chemicals on endangered species."

Source: The Hill [8], 04/01/2019

"Interior: Court Strikes Down Land Exchange For Alaska Refuge Road" [9]

"A federal judge has dealt a likely deathblow to a land-swap deal approved by the Interior Department last year that was meant to clear the way for a 12-mile single-lane gravel road through Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge."

Source: E&E News PM [10], 04/01/2019

"New Orleans Files Wetland Damage Suit Against Oil, Gas Companies" [11]

"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."

Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [12], 04/01/2019

"Flooding Bursts Midwest Levees, and Tough Questions Follow" [13]

"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.”"

Source: NY Times [14], 04/01/2019

Trump Signs Permit For Construction Of Embattled Keystone XL Pipeline [15]

"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."

Source: Washington Post [16], 04/01/2019

Judge Overturns Trump’s Order to Open Arctic Waters to Oil Drilling [17]

"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."

Source: NY Times [18], 04/01/2019

Air Pollution: EPA Panel Urges Wheeler To Bring Back Fired Experts [19]

"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."

Source: Greenwire [20], 04/01/2019

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