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DEADLINE: Media Study Tour on Germany’s Coal [1]

Clean Energy Wire invites journalists to apply for a three-day, expenses-paid media study tour (June 17-20, 2018) to Germany's industrial heartland of North Rhine-Westphalia. The tour will visit the last two remaining hard coal mines that will shut down this year and learn about post-coal business projects. Apply by May 5.

As Climate Zaps Their Snow, Winter Sports Fans Seek To Change Congress [2]

"A world-class snowboarder, former Navy SEAL Josh Jespersen served for four years in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last year, he set a single-winter record by climbing and boarding down all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks."

Source: McClatchy [3], 04/30/2018

"US Won’t Restore Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Protections" [4]

"BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. officials will not restore federal protections for Yellowstone-area grizzly bears, despite a court ruling that called into question the government’s rationale for turning grizzly management over to states that are now planning public hunts for the animals, according to an announcement Friday in in the Federal Register."

Source: AP [5], 04/30/2018

Proposed Shake-Up At National Park Service Could Transfer Senior Leaders [6]

"A major management shake-up could be underway at the National Park Service, including the proposed reassignment of the veteran superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and six other senior executives, according to several individuals familiar with the plan."

Source: Washington Post [7], 04/30/2018

Australia Pledges Millions of Dollars in Bid to Rescue Great Barrier Reef [8]

"The Australian government unveiled a plan on Sunday to try to rescue the imperiled Great Barrier Reef, pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in what would be the largest single investment for reef conservation and management in the country’s history."

Source: NY Times [9], 04/30/2018

"Jury Awards Hog Farm Neighbors $50 Million" [10]

"A North Carolina jury awarded $50 million to neighbors of a 15,000-hog farm in Eastern North Carolina in a case being closely watched across the country by environmentalists and the hog farm industry."

Source: InsideClimate News [11], 04/30/2018

"EPA Inspector General To Open ‘New Reviews’ Into Scott Pruitt" [12]

"The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general will open “new reviews” into ethics questions surrounding Administrator Scott Pruitt, including his $50-a-night rental of a lobbyist’s Capitol Hill condo last year."

Source: Washington Post [13], 04/30/2018

190 Nations To Meet In Bonn To Bring Paris Climate Pact To Life [14]

"Front-line negotiators from more than 190 nations gathering for climate talks in Bonn on Monday (April 30) face a daunting task: bring the 2015 Paris Agreement to life."

Source: AFP [15], 04/30/2018

"EU Agrees Total Ban On Bee-Harming Pesticides" [16]

"The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees."

Source: Guardian [17], 04/30/2018

US Seeks Revision Of Rule On Offshore Oil Wells Made After BP Disaster [18]

"WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Friday proposed relaxing a rule on offshore oil wells that was finalized after the 2010 BP Plc disaster and crude spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as part of its effort to slash regulations it considers burdensome on industry.

The exact revisions to the 2016 well control rule proposed by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), an office of the Department of Interior, will be known next week when they are published in the Federal Register.

Source: Reuters [19], 04/30/2018

DEADLINE: Media Study Tour on Germany’s Coal [1]

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