"Coal: Interior Hatches Plan To Save Navajo Power Station" [1]
"The Trump administration has a plan to help keep open an Arizona coal-fired power plant that is set to shutter at the end of 2019."
Source: Greenwire [2], 06/06/2018
"The Trump administration has a plan to help keep open an Arizona coal-fired power plant that is set to shutter at the end of 2019."
"Conservative billionaire David Koch is leaving his political and corporate roles due to deteriorating health, marking a leadership shift for a company vilified by left-leaning politicians and groups for its roles in U.S. energy and climate policies."
"A group of unlikely allies wants the Trump administration to require reduced U.S. use of a class of synthetic chemicals that are potent greenhouse gases, in line with an international agreement."
"White House officials have yet to reach a consensus over a Department of Energy proposal to subsidize ailing coal and nuclear plants, a top aide told a group of clean energy advocates at the White House yesterday."
"A federal court will not immediately revive Obama-era restrictions on methane emissions from the oil and gas industry."
"The molten lava on the island of Hawaii has destroyed what officials said may be hundreds of homes, including a vacation home of the county’s mayor, Harry Kim, as a spewing vent has sent a wide, slow-moving river of lava into a residential community and the sea beyond it on the island’s east side."
"Three months after Scott Pruitt was sworn in as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, his scheduler emailed Dan Cathy, chief executive of the fast-food company Chick-fil-A, with an unusual request: Would Cathy meet with Pruitt to discuss “a potential business opportunity”?"
Nearby farmers market may offer reporters a bounty of environmental stories, with angles on organic foods, locavore movements and more. This week’s TipSheet outlines ideas, provides resources and encourages you to go pay a visit to speak with vendors and customers … and perhaps even taste some free wares.
Is EPA antipathy toward news media hiding inaction on a toxic drinking water contaminant? That’s the question asked by the latest WatchDog, which looks at a recent incident in which media access to a public meeting was limited, and then explores what may be behind it.
"The old Italian men pass their mornings near the top of the hill, tending thick grapevines and rows of fava beans, smoking crumbling Toscano cigars, staying out of the house. If you try to call Francesco “Frank” Mitrano at home, his wife will brusquely tell you that he’s at “the farm.”"
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/coal-interior-hatches-plan-save-navajo-power-station
[2] https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060083541
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/david-koch-announces-exit-business-politics
[4] https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060083545
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-industries-ask-trump-admin-endorse-global-hydrofluorocarbon-deal
[6] https://cen.acs.org/environment/greenhouse-gases/US-industries-ask-Trump-administration/96/i23
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trumps-coal-plan-finds-critics-inside-west-wing
[8] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060083481
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/public-lands-court-refuses-reboot-full-obama-methane-rule
[10] https://www.eenews.net/energywire/stories/1060083463
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/river-lava-destroys-hundreds-homes-hawaii-including-mayors
[12] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/05/river-of-lava-destroys-hundreds-of-homes-in-hawaii-including-one-owned-by-mayor-officials-say/?utm_term=.1e74466f48af
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pruitt-enlisted-epa-aide-help-his-wife-find-job-%E2%80%94-chick-fil
[14] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/scott-pruitt-enlisted-an-epa-aide-to-help-his-wife-find-a-job--at-chick-fil-a/2018/06/05/b798e4e4-5eac-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html?utm_term=.439bd46772b4
[15] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/farmers-markets-offer-baskets-fresh-story-ideas
[16] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/media-object-epa-bars-reporters-drinking-water-summit
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/la-community-garden-thrived-decades-then-water-wars-began
[18] http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-san-pedro-garden-20180604-htmlstory.html
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2185
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2182
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2183
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2184
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2187
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2188
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2189
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2190
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4930