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How Corruption Waged War On An Alabama Superfund Cleanup [1]

"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In autumn of 2013, a senior executive from a powerful coal company and a lawyer from one of the state’s most influential firms hashed out a strategy for avoiding a serious — and expensive — problem."

Source: Washington Post [2], 04/29/2019

"Arizona Utility Spent Big To Sway Election Of Its Regulators" [3]

"Facing what it saw as a threat to its monopoly from a surging rooftop solar industry, Arizona’s largest utility secretly funneled millions of dollars to back favored candidates for the state commission regulating it."

Source: AP [4], 04/29/2019

"Can Humans Help Trees Outrun Climate Change?" [5]

"SCITUATE, R. I. — Foresters began noticing the patches of dying pines and denuded oaks, and grew concerned. Warmer winters and drier summers had sent invasive insects and diseases marching northward, killing the trees."

Source: NY Times [6], 04/29/2019

"Trump Drive to Boost Fossil Fuels Hits a Wall in Federal Courts" [7]

"From easing regulations on coal mining to opening more federal land to oil drillers, President Donald Trump has kept a laser focus on bolstering the U.S. fossil fuel industry to achieve what he calls “energy dominance.” Time and time again, federal judges have gotten in the way."

Source: Bloomberg [8], 04/29/2019

"U.S. Opens Criminal Probe Into Ford Emissions Certification" [9]

"The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Ford Motor Co’s emissions certification process in the United States, the automaker disclosed on Friday, saying it was cooperating fully with the probe and still conducting its own internal review."

Source: Reuters [10], 04/29/2019

"Booker Unveils Environmental Justice Proposal" [11]

"Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Friday unveiled an environmental justice proposal, saying it’s time to address regulatory practices at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that ignore the concentration of pollution in some communities."

Source: The Hill [12], 04/29/2019

"Fossil Fuel Ban On Public Lands Becomes Issue In 2020 Democratic Race" [13]

"The issue of what to do with the hundreds of millions of acres of federally controlled lands usually does not get much attention in presidential elections — despite the vastness of the U.S. government’s holdings. But the 2020 contest for the Democratic nomination seems to be different."

Source: Washington Post [14], 04/29/2019

"New EPA Document Tells Communities To Brace For Climate Change Impacts" [15]

"The Environmental Protection Agency published a 150-page document this past week with a straightforward message for coping with the fallout from natural disasters across the country: Start planning for the fact that climate change is going to make these catastrophes worse."

Source: Washington Post [16], 04/29/2019

Pod Of Orcas Starving To Death. Tribe Has A Radical Plan To Feed Them [17]

"The Lummi Nation is dropping live salmon into the sea in a last-ditch rescue effort: ‘We don’t have much time’"

Source: Guardian [18], 04/26/2019

"Giraffes a Tentative Step Closer Toward Federal Protections" [19]

"Years after international watchdogs began warning that giraffes are sliding toward a silent extinction, the Trump administration is taking the first tentative steps toward protecting the world’s tallest land animal under the Endangered Species Act."

Source: AP [20], 04/26/2019

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