Winners: SEJ 16th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment [1]
And the winners are...
And the winners are...
"A year ago, the U.S. House tried to block the military from preparing for climate change. Now, several GOP members have voted to support studying the security risks."
"The leading senators overseeing energy policy introduced a new version of their broad energy reform bill Thursday."
"In forceful remarks before Germany’s Parliament on Thursday, Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to defend the international climate agreement spurned by the Trump administration, anticipating a difficult meeting of the leaders of the world’s major economies next week in Hamburg."
"The world’s largest ever field trial demonstrates widely used insecticides harm both honeybees and wild bees, increasing calls for a ban".
"Fourteen states — including Oregon and Washington — are threatening to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating the Clean Air Act. In a letter to the EPA sent Thursday, the group argues Director Scott Pruitt broke the law when he ordered his agency to halt part of the rule-making process for regulating methane and other air pollution from oil and gas facilities."
"About 10 per cent of Alberta’s 1,500 abandoned oil and gas wells in urban areas are leaking methane, in some cases at levels that create the risk of health damage and explosions, according to an unreleased 2016 report."
"Mainstream experts in energy policy and finance reacted skeptically to the White House's carefully orchestrated energy policy hootenanny this week, as President Donald Trump and his Cabinet declared what he called 'a golden age of American energy dominance.'"
"A federal appeals court said the Environmental Protection Agency should not have been ordered by a lower court judge to assess how its air regulations affect coal industry jobs, in a defeat for Murray Energy Corp, a large coal miner."
"In Alabama, climate change and poor infrastructure provide hospitable conditions for diseases typically found in the developing world."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/winners-sej-16th-annual-awards-reporting-environment
[2] https://www.sej.org/headlines/house-republicans-ok-measure-asking-military-study-climate-change
[3] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28062017/miltary-base-flooding-sea-level-rise-congress-republicans-order-report
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/senators-introduce-new-bipartisan-energy-bill
[5] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/340097-senators-introduce-new-bipartisan-energy-bill
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/angela-merkel-predicts-showdown-us-over-climate-g-20
[7] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/angela-merkel-predicts-showdown-over-climate-at-g-20/2017/06/29/76bf6678-5a84-11e7-aa69-3964a7d55207_story.html?utm_term=.fc6b297bfe8d
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pesticides-damage-survival-bee-colonies-landmark-study-shows
[9] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/29/pesticides-damage-survival-of-bee-colonies-landmark-study-shows
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/oregon-washington-threaten-sue-epa-over-methane-rules
[11] http://kuow.org/post/oregon-washington-threaten-sue-epa-over-methane-rules
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hundreds-abandoned-wells-leaking-methane-alberta-communities
[13] https://thetyee.ca/News/2017/06/28/Energy-Industry-Legacy/
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98energy-dominance%E2%80%99-push-ignores-some-important-realities
[15] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29062017/trump-american-energy-dominance-oil-gas-drilling-obama-climate-change-analysts
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-wins-us-court-reversal-over-coal-jobs-study
[17] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-murray-energy-epa-decision-idUSKBN19K2IF
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/american-south-inequity-diseases
[19] https://undark.org/article/rural-american-south-tropical-diseases/
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