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Puerto Rico Moves To Cancel Grid Repair Contract With Whitefish Energy [1]

"Puerto Rico’s electric company moved Sunday to cancel a $300 million contract with a small Montana firm for repairs to the territory’s hurricane-ravaged electrical grid, saying controversy surrounding the agreement was distracting from the effort to restore power."

Source: Washington Post [2], 10/30/2017

"Trump Plans to Shrink Two National Monuments in Utah" [3]

"Senator Hatch, a Utah Republican, said Mr. Trump told him in a phone conversation that he had approved recommendations drawn up by Ryan Zinke, the Interior secretary, to reduce the size of Bears Ears National Monument, established by former President Barack Obama, and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, designated by former President Bill Clinton."

Source: NY Times [4], 10/30/2017

Seeing God’s Hand in Deadly Floods, Yet Wondering about Climate Change [5]

"An evangelical mountain town lost eight people to flooding from an extreme rain storm. Many residents see the Biblical prophecy of the apocalypse, and welcome it."

Source: InsideClimate News [6], 10/27/2017

Toxics in Widespread Use Excluded From EPA Chemical Review [7]

"Spurred by the chemical industry, President Donald Trump's administration is retreating from a congressionally mandated review of some of the most dangerous chemicals in public use: millions of tons of asbestos, flame retardants and other toxins in homes, offices and industrial plants across the United States."

Source: AP [8], 10/27/2017

Monsanto Attacks Scientists Who Found Problems With Weedkiller Dicamba [9]

"In a normal year, Kevin Bradley, a professor of weed science at the University of Missouri, would have spent his summer testing new ways to control a troublesome little plant called water hemp. This has not been a normal year."

Source: NPR [10], 10/27/2017

Salton Sea Area No Longer Good Place To Live For Respiratory Patients [11]

"Nancy Johnson has lived near the Salton Sea her entire life. Her grandparents originally moved to the area at the behest of their doctors, who said the hot, dry desert was the perfect antidote for their emphysema."

Source: Palm Springs Desert Sun [12], 10/27/2017

Perry Subsidy for Coal, Nuclear Will Cost US Taxpayers $10.6Bn A Year [13]

"Non-partisan analysis reveals the cost of energy secretary Rick Perry’s proposal to give handouts to some of the country’s oldest and dirtiest power plants".

Source: Guardian [14], 10/27/2017

FEMA Won't Disclose Plan for Responding to a Hurricane in Puerto Rico [15]

"The disaster-relief agency, under fire after Hurricane Maria, won’t release the plan, even as a comparable document for Hawaii remains public."

Source: ProPublica [16], 10/27/2017

Down Hundreds Of Staff, NWS ‘Teetering On The Brink Of Failure’ - Union [17]

"After the onslaught of devastating hurricanes and wildfires, the United States is enduring one of its most costly years for extreme weather. A near-record $16 billion weather disasters have ravaged the nation. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service workforce is spread razor thin, with hundreds of vacant forecast positions."

Source: Washington Post [18], 10/27/2017

5 Years After Sandy: Vulnerable Red Hook Is Booming at Water's Edge [19]

"This growing Brooklyn neighborhood, flooded during Superstorm Sandy, is now confronting the threat of future storms and sea level rise."

Source: The Bridge [20], 10/27/2017

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