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FERC Calls Court's Call for Climate Test of Pipeline "Inappropriate" [1]

"The federal agency overseeing gas pipelines, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, issued a nine-page statement Wednesday that says it’s 'inappropriate' for the agency to try to figure out the climate change impact of the controversial Sabal Trail Pipeline."

Source: Tampa Bay Times [2], 09/28/2017

In the Virgin Islands, Hurricane Maria Drowned What Irma Didn’t Destroy [3]

"As islanders wait for doctors, medicine, fuel and manpower to rebuild, the economic toll from the storms is only starting to come to light."

Source: NY Times [4], 09/28/2017

"E.P.A. Threatens to Stop Funding Justice Dept. Environmental Work" [5]

"Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator who has aggressively pushed to dismantle regulations and downsize the organization, is threatening to reach outside his agency and undermine the Justice Department’s work enforcing antipollution laws, documents and interviews show."

Source: NY Times [6], 09/28/2017

Pruitt Took Charter, Military Flights That Cost Taxpayers Over $58,000 [7]

"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has taken at least four noncommercial and military flights since mid-February, costing taxpayers more than $58,000 to fly him to various parts of the country, according to records provided to a congressional oversight committee and obtained by The Washington Post."

Source: Washington Post [8], 09/28/2017

Puerto Rico Hurricane Crisis Worsens: This Could Be Trump's Katrina [9]

"It's been one week since Category 4 Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, destroying the entire island's communications infrastructure, power grid, and leaving thousands homeless. The humanitarian crisis in the storm's wake is growing by the hour."

Source: Mashable [10], 09/28/2017

"Is Climate-Themed Fiction All Too Real? We Asked the Experts" [11]

"When extraordinary hurricanes and floods battered parts of the United States and Caribbean this month, Paolo Bacigalupi’s readers started sending him news clips. In 'Ship Breaker,' which was nominated for a National Book Award in 2010, Mr. Bacigalupi, a science fiction writer, had invented a monster 'Category 6' hurricane."

Source: NY Times [12], 09/27/2017

"Farmworkers’ Dilemma: Affordable Housing, but Undrinkable Water" [13]

"A sprawl of mobile home parks house 10,000 people in Southern California’s Coachella Valley, but their drinking water is chronically contaminated. Now some solutions are in sight."

Source: Water Deeply [14], 09/27/2017

"US, Mexico Expand Pact On Managing Overused Colorado River" [15]

"The United States and Mexico have agreed to renew and expand a far-reaching conservation agreement that governs how they manage the overused Colorado River, which supplies water to millions of people and to farms in both nations, U.S. water district officials said."

Source: AP [16], 09/27/2017

"EPA Removes Waste At Texas Toxic Sites, Won’t Say From Where" [17]

"The Environmental Protection Agency says it has recovered 517 containers of 'unidentified, potentially hazardous material' from highly contaminated toxic waste sites in Texas that flooded last month during Hurricane Harvey. The agency has not provided details about which Superfund sites the material came from, why the contaminants at issue have not been identified and whether there’s a threat to human health."

Source: AP [18], 09/27/2017

"Something in the Air: When Hazardous Vapors Slip Indoors" [19]

"When Jane Horton bought her dream 800-square-foot farmhouse in 1975, she thought little of the semiconductor manufacturing plant across the street. Even after the company’s buildings were demolished and a chain-link fence went up around the campus, she still had no knowledge of the toxic dangers lurking beneath her feet — let alone of the fact that they were invading her home."

Source: Undark [20], 09/27/2017

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