Senate Panel Backs LWCF Reauthorization, Mandatory Funding [1]
"A Senate panel today [Tuesday] approved 16-7 a bipartisan bill to permanently reauthorize and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund."
Source: Greenwire [2], 10/03/2018
"A Senate panel today [Tuesday] approved 16-7 a bipartisan bill to permanently reauthorize and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund."
"The Trump administration is abruptly ending a decades-long program that trained national wildlife refuge managers with law enforcement capabilities to police often remote spots of public land."
"In the aftermath of the Friday earthquake and ensuing tsunami that destroyed thousands of homes and killed more than 1,200 people on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, officials are beginning to sort out what went wrong with the country’s early warning system for tsunami detection."
"A key data point has been buried in the back-and-forth over the Trump administration's rollback of former President Obama's climate legacy: EPA's own research has found that lifting public health protections on air pollution could kill thousands of Americans."
"Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andrew Wheeler on Monday emphatically defended his agency’s environmental policy rollbacks as he argued that the EPA is significantly contributing to children’s health."
"The confirmed death toll from an earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has risen to 1,234, from 844, the national disaster mitigation agency said on Tuesday."
"CHICAGO - Two dozen activists stormed a public hearing on Monday hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency to rail against its plan to lift Obama-era carbon limits on power plants, causing agency officials to leave the room until the demonstration ended."
"Tropical Storm Rosa diminished from a Pacific hurricane over the weekend, but will still bring strong winds and dangerous rip currents to southern California on Monday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said."
"Florida officials confirmed a rare red tide on the state’s Atlantic coast on Monday after beach goers began complaining about coughing and itchy throats along Palm Beach County over the weekend."
"Leading scientists are meeting in South Korea this week to see if global temperatures can be kept from rising by more than 1.5C this century."
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[2] https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060100321
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[4] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/409455-trump-administration-ends-key-law-enforcement-program-at-wildlife
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/what-went-wrong-indonesia%E2%80%99s-tsunami-early-warning-system
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[10] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/409280-epa-chief-defends-rule-rollbacks-at-childrens-health-event
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