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Facing Fines, Women Sitting In Trees To Protest Va.Pipeline Come Down [1]

"A mother and daughter who had been camped high in trees for five weeks to protest a natural gas pipeline near Roanoke climbed down from their roosts Saturday after a federal judge threatened to start levying heavy fines."

Source: Washington Post [2], 05/07/2018

Everglades Under Threat As Mangroves Face Death By Rising Sea Level [3]

"Florida’s mangroves have been forced into a hasty retreat by sea level rise and now face being drowned, imperiling coastal communities and the prized Everglades wetlands, researchers have found."

Source: Guardian [4], 05/07/2018

Kids Challenge Alaska for Promoting Oil as Global Warming Wreaks Havoc [5]

Sixteen young Alaskans "are suing the state of Alaska for causing climate change and failing to protect the climate for future generations. They are asking for a science-based energy policy—one that will shift to renewable energy sources and bring greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050."

Source: InsideClimate News [6], 05/07/2018

Earth’s Atmosphere Crosses Another Troubling Climate Change Threshold [7]

"For the first time since humans have been monitoring, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have exceeded 410 parts per million averaged across an entire month, a threshold that pushes the planet ever closer to warming beyond levels that scientists and the international community have deemed “safe.”"

Source: Washington Post [8], 05/07/2018

Interior Tells Staff: Shut Up About Mandatory Endangered Species Permits [9]

"New guidelines issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior now prohibit staff members from informing private interests when they must obtain a permit before they can develop properties where activities may affect habitats of endangered species."

Source: HuffPost [10], 05/07/2018

"Inside Scott Pruitt's "Miserable" Bunker" [11]

"President Trump is unhappy about a report in The Atlantic which says a member of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's press team has been shopping negative stories about Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to multiple outlets."

Source: Axios [12], 05/07/2018

Illinois To Sue EPA for Exempting Foxconn Plant From Pollution Controls [13]

"Illinois’ Attorney General said on Friday she plans to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allowing a proposed Foxconn Technology Co Ltd plant in neighboring Wisconsin to operate without stringent pollution controls."

Source: Reuters [14], 05/07/2018

EPA Climate Change Website Went Down A Year Ago For ‘Updating’ [15]

"The news came on a Friday evening in late April last year: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had removed an informational website about climate change, taking down a page that had been up, in some form, for nearly two decades and under three presidents."

Source: Washington Post [16], 05/07/2018

Trump Admin Moves To Weaken Protections For This Unique American Bird [17]

"Western greater sage grouse are famous for fierce battles between males in an annual rite to mate with hens. It’s a theatrical show of machismo, chest thumping and razor-sharp clawing over a wide landscape that people across the world travel to watch."

Source: Washington Post [18], 05/07/2018

"EPA Clamps Down On Document Requests Linked To Pruitt" [19]

"Top aides to Scott Pruitt at the EPA are screening public records requests related to the embattled administrator, slowing the flow of information released under the Freedom of Information Act — at times beyond what the law allows."

Source: Politico [20], 05/07/2018

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