"Still Toxic After All These Years" [1]
"Nearly a quarter-century after winning millions from PG&E, the 'Erin Brockovich' town continues its fight for clean water."
Source: Grist [2], 01/31/2019
"Nearly a quarter-century after winning millions from PG&E, the 'Erin Brockovich' town continues its fight for clean water."
To a duck hunter in the marshes of southeast Louisiana, what happens in the prairie potholes of the upper Midwest makes all the difference. The Trump administration wants to end protections for such isolated wetlands."
"Brazil has nearly 4,000 dams that are classified as having “high damage potential” or being at high risk, with 205 of those dams containing mineral waste, the country’s Regional Development Minister Gustavo Canuto said on Tuesday."
"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) are set to unveil legislation laying out a “Green New Deal” as soon as next week, Axios has learned."
"White House officials are seriously considering former cattle rancher and Wyoming congresswoman Cynthia Lummis to serve as President Donald Trump’s next Interior secretary, according to people familiar with the deliberations."
"At the Interior Department, more than half a dozen major divisions lack Senate-confirmed leaders. But that’s not slowing the department down: On Tuesday, acting Secretary David Bernhardt amended a secretarial order that will allow these appointees to keep serving until the end of May, if need be."
"In 2013, starfish — including the morning sun star, the richly hued ochre star and the sunflower star, whose limbs can span four feet across — started dying by the millions along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska."
"The nation's intelligence community warned in its annual assessment of worldwide threats that climate change and other kinds of environmental degradation pose risks to global stability because they are "likely to fuel competition for resources, economic distress, and social discontent through 2019 and beyond."
"A federal agency tweeted Tuesday that winter storms don’t disprove climate change, hours after President Trump seemed to imply the opposite in a tweet."
"Michigan environmental groups negotiated with utilities late last year to strengthen a new statewide coal ash program, but more action is needed to address contaminated properties, they say."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/still-toxic-after-all-these-years
[2] https://grist.org/article/the-true-story-of-the-town-behind-erin-brockovich/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/clean-water-act-hunters-view-no-such-thing-isolated-wetland
[4] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060118625
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/brazil-has-nearly-4000-dams-high-risk-minister
[6] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vale-sa-distaster-dams/brazil-has-nearly-4000-dams-at-high-risk-minister-idUSKCN1PN1UG
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ocasio-cortez-markey-unveil-green-new-deal-bill
[8] https://www.axios.com/green-new-deal-ocasio-cortez-markey-0d47bdbc-1180-4eb5-b010-6ed60f943cd4.html
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/white-house-considers-cattle-rancher-lummis-interior-sources-say
[10] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-31/white-house-said-to-consider-cattle-rancher-lummis-for-interior
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/interior-dept-opts-keep-running-without-senate-confirmed-leaders
[12] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/01/30/interior-department-is-running-mainly-without-senate-confirmed-leaders-it-just-opted-keep-it-that-way/?utm_term=.cc1980bf813e
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/scientists-single-out-suspect-starfish-carnage-warming-oceans
[14] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/climate/starfish-global-warming.html
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-intelligence-officials-warn-climate-change-worldwide-threat
[16] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30012019/worldwide-threat-assessment-climate-change-intelligence-agencies-national-security
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/noaa-after-trump-tweet-winter-storms-don%E2%80%99t-disprove-climate-change
[18] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/427467-federal-agency-says-winter-storms-dont-disprove-climate-change
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/environmental-groups-utilities-negotiate-michigan-coal-ash-rules
[20] https://energynews.us/2019/01/30/midwest/environmental-groups-utilities-negotiate-michigan-coal-ash-rules/
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