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"Senate Bill Would Let EPA Implement Global Greenhouse Gas Deal" [1]

"A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill Friday that would let the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implement a global deal meant to phase out certain greenhouse gases."

Source: The Hill [2], 02/19/2018

"Oil And Gas: Trump's Budget Would Erase USGS Impact Research" [3]

"The Trump administration is seeking to zero out federal funding on the environmental effects of oil and gas development."

Source: EnergyWire [4], 02/19/2018

"In Win For Greens, Court Nixes Parts Of Obama-Era Ozone Rule" [5]

"A federal court today [Friday] sided with environmentalists in vacating a significant chunk of an Obama-era rule guiding implementation for the 2008 ozone standard."

Source: Greenwire [6], 02/19/2018

"White House: Conservatives Want This Ex-Regulator To Be CEQ Boss" [7]

"Climate skeptics are rallying from a recent defeat by promoting another candidate who has questioned humans' role in climate change for a top White House environment job."

Source: ClimateWire [8], 02/19/2018

"Interior To Hold Largest Oil And Gas Lease Sale in US History" [9]

"The Interior Department is planning to hold the largest sale of oil and gas leases in the country's history.

The plans, announced Friday, would auction off 77.3 million acres of offshore waters to drilling, covering coastal waters in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

The auction will take place March 21.

Areas protected under a 2006 congressional moratorium, which bans drilling within 125 miles of the Florida coast until 2022, will be excluded from the lease."

Source: The Hill [10], 02/19/2018

"Alaska's Bering Sea Lost a Third of Its Ice in Just 8 Days" [11]

"In just eight days in mid-February, nearly a third of the sea ice covering the Bering Sea off Alaska's west coast disappeared. That kind of ice loss and the changing climate as the planet warms is affecting the lives of the people who live along the coast."

Source: InsideClimate News [12], 02/19/2018

"Want Cleaner Air? Try Using Less Deodorant" [13]

"The deodorants, perfumes and soaps that keep us smelling good are fouling the air with a harmful type of pollution — at levels as high as emissions from today’s cars and trucks."

Source: NY Times [14], 02/19/2018

"Under Fire For Travel Expenses, Pruitt Cancels Trip To Israel" [15]

"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has canceled a nearly week-long trip to Israel, agency officials confirmed Sunday."

Source: Washington Post [16], 02/19/2018

CitiesIPCC Cities & Climate Change Science Conference [17]

SEJ members are invited to attend and cover this inaugural event in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Elected officials, scientists, UN representatives, urban development experts and others will gather to discuss the latest scientific research on climate change and advance understanding of how cities can address this global challenge. Can't attend in person? You may be able to cover the conference remotely.

"Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking" [18]

"CHARLESTON, S.C. — Among the biologists, geneticists and historians who use food as a lens to study the African diaspora, rice is a particularly deep rabbit hole. So much remains unknown about how millions of enslaved Africans used it in their kitchens and how it got to those kitchens to begin with. That’s what made the hill rice in Trinidad such a find."

Source: NY Times [19], 02/16/2018

CitiesIPCC Cities & Climate Change Science Conference [17]

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