"For lunch on April 26, Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dined with top executives from Southern Company, one of the nation’s largest coal-burning electric utilities, at Equinox, a white-tablecloth favorite of Washington power brokers."
The threat of failing dams can prompt worries over lost lives and property, as witness hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. But dam failure is a problem environmental journalists can get ahead of, and the latest TipSheet helps you get ready — with questions to ask, sources to pursue and resources to bone up on. Plus, more hurricane coverage resources [4].
"The city’s rise as a global innovation city reflects decades of investment in emerging technology, a new Brookings report says."
"Bulldozers, excavators and construction workers are bulling their way into Patapsco Valley State Park near Baltimore this fall. They’re the advance guard for a task force charged with removing a dormant hydroelectric dam on the Patapsco River and reopening a big stretch of the river to spawning runs of migratory fish."
"In March 2014, the staged release of water into the Colorado River Delta was an international spectacle."
"Vanuatu has launched a Dunkirk-style evacuation on the northern island of Ambae as a flotilla of boats rescues islanders from an erupting volcano that has polluted many of the island’s sources of drinking water."
"The Arkema chemical plant — already facing multiple lawsuits over explosions of a volatile chemical in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey — is under criminal investigation by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, officials confirmed Friday."
"Cancer-causing dioxins leached from a Superfund site along a Texas river during Hurricane Harvey flooding, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said, triggering calls on Friday for the toxic waste to be permanently moved."
"U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has asked federal regulators to attempt to keep the nation’s struggling coal and nuclear power plants open by rewarding them for contributing to the resilience of the electric grid, the Department of Energy said on Friday."
"The plan — tied into the Republican tax overhaul — assumes $1 billion in revenue, likely to come from oil leases in the pristine Alaska wilderness area."
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[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/us/politics/epa-scott-pruitt-calendar-industries-coal-oil-environmentalists.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/climate&_r=0
[3] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/dam-safety-issues-forefront-following-hurricane-flooding
[4] https://www.sej.org/publications/sejournal-online/hurricane-toolbox-headlines-and-more
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/why-future-looks-pittsburgh
[6] https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/09/why-the-future-looks-like-pittsburgh/540903/?utm_source=SFTwitter
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/herring-shad-get-head-start-bloede-dam-removal
[8] http://www.bayjournal.com/article/herring_shad_get_head_start_before_bloede_dam_removal?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/more-water-more-restoration-bound-colorado-river-delta
[10] http://tucson.com/news/local/more-water-more-restoration-bound-for-colorado-river-delta/article_099f6f47-b507-5dc8-8c89-3c1df9f0f2a0.html
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/dunkirk-style-evacuation-vanuatu-volcano-pollutes-drinking-water
[12] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-vanuatu-volcano/dunkirk-style-evacuation-as-vanuatu-volcano-pollutes-drinking-water-idUSKCN1C6141?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_content=59d0c3ae04d301602e1a34ce&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/arkema-plant-under-criminal-investigation-harris-county-da%E2%80%99s-office
[14] http://m.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Arkema-plant-under-criminal-investigation-by-12242301.php?cmpid=twitter-mobile
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-finds-dioxin-exposed-superfund-site-after-storm-orders-tests
[16] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-harvey-epa-superfund/epa-finds-dioxin-exposed-at-superfund-site-after-storm-orders-tests-idUSKCN1C432L
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-energy-head-seeks-help-coal-nuclear-power-plants
[18] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-powergrid-perry/u-s-energy-head-seeks-help-for-coal-nuclear-power-plants-idUSKCN1C42G0
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-targeted-drilling-senate-budget
[20] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29092017/arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-drilling-republican-senate-budget-tax-overhaul-alaska
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[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2348
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2351
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