"The Interior Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) says it has begun a 'preliminary investigation' into reports that Secretary Ryan Zinke made phone calls pushing Alaska's senators to support a GOP healthcare bill or risk losing federal support for economic development efforts in their state."
The SEJ family is still mourning the loss of SEJ member Elizabeth Grossman, who passed away in July. Lizzie was an accomplished independent environmental health journalist whose incisive reporting, deep passion for her work and infectious humor earned her respect and admiration from those who knew her and worked alongside her. Lizzie was a fierce advocate for SEJ support for freelance journalists. In her honor, SEJ has established "The Lizzie," a $1,500 fellowship to SEJ's annual conference beginning with SEJ 2017 in Pittsburgh. The fellowship will go to an SEJ freelance member who has not attended the annual conference in at least three years. Read more about Lizzie and the fellowship here [3].
"The real fight over America's energy future isn't in coal, despite the Trump administration's public focus on a mining revival. Rather, dozens of pipeline projects, making up one of the largest expansions of natural gas infrastructure in U.S. history, are where the fossil fuel action is."
"Workers laboring outdoors in southern states are wrestling with the personal and political consequences of a worsening environment."
"Southern Co.'s preliminary figures for its nuclear expansion in Georgia now put the new source of electricity on the grid no earlier than 2022 and push the total price tag for twin reactors to more than $20 billion."
"The Senate voted Thursday evening to confirm two of President Trump's nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), paving the way for the commission to have its first quorum in six months."
"It is August, the month when a new generation of black-legged ticks that transmit Lyme and other diseases are hatching. On forest floors, suburban estates and urban parks, they are looking for their first blood meal. And very often, in the large swaths of North America and Europe where tick-borne disease is on the rise, they are feeding on the ubiquitous white-footed mice and other small mammals notorious for harboring pathogens that sicken humans."
"Dealing a blow to the Trump administration and business groups, a federal appeals court will allow California and a half-dozen other states to intervene in litigation to defend U.S. EPA's 2015 ground-level ozone standard."
"As global temperatures rise, river valleys in South Asia will face the highest risk of heat waves that reach the limits of human survivability, a new study shows."
"The proposed Keystone XL pipeline survived nine years of protests, lawsuits and political wrangling that saw the Obama administration reject it and President Donald Trump revive it, but now the project faces the possibility of death by economics."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/interior-watchdog-launches-%E2%80%98preliminary-investigation%E2%80%99-zinke-calls
[2] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/345226-interior-watchdog-undertaking-preliminary-investigation-into-zinke
[3] https://www.sej.org/announcing-lizzie-sej-conference-fellowship
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pipeline-payday-how-builders-win-big-whether-gas-needed-or-not
[5] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02082017/natural-gas-pipeline-boom-corporate-profit-bubble-limited-demand-climate-emissions
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/sweltering-south-climate-change-now-workplace-hazard
[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/us/politics/climate-change-trump-working-poor-activists.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/nuclear-soaring-20b-estimate-cloaks-vogtle-reactors
[9] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060058331
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/senate-confirms-two-energy-commission-nominees-restoring-quorum
[11] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/345256-senate-confirms-two-ferc-nominees-restoring-quorum
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/lyme-disease%E2%80%99s-worst-enemy-it-might-be-foxes
[13] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/science/ticks-lyme-disease-foxes-martens.html
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/court-lets-states-intervene-ozone-fight-setback-epa
[15] https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060058293
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/heat-waves-creeping-toward-deadly-heat-humidity-threshold
[17] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02082017/heatwaves-deadly-heat-humidity-wet-bulb-human-survivability-threshold
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/keystone-xl-survived-politics-economics-could-kill-it
[19] http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/keystone-xl-survived-politics-economics-kill-49004015
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2396
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2393
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2394
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2395
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2398
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2399
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2400
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2401
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4913