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Court Cases with Trump Agencies Will Make News in 2018 [1]

The battle over environment and energy issues may ultimately come down to U.S. courts, where, unlike Congress and White House, the GOP doesn't hold sway ... yet. This week's TipSheet looks at a dozen major legal issues making news in 2018, like wetlands protection, and offers story ideas and resources to cover them.

"Supreme Court: Justices Reject 4 Environmental Cases" [2]

"Coal giant Murray Energy Corp.'s bid to force U.S. EPA to continually evaluate the impacts of its air regulations on the coal industry today came to an end in the Supreme Court."

Source: Greenwire [3], 01/09/2018

Puerto Rico Energy Commission Lays Out Rules for Future Microgrids [4]

"The Puerto Rico Energy Commission unveiled 29 pages of proposed regulations last week for future microgrid installations on the island."

Source: Greentech Media [5], 01/09/2018

"Maine Town Wins Round in Tar Sands Oil Battle With Industry" [6]

"A federal judge has handed a win to South Portland, Maine over a pipeline company that wants to send tar sands oil through the city, a proposal seen as opening a path for Canada's crude to reach the East Coast for export."

Source: InsideClimate News [7], 01/09/2018

"Thousands in California Flee Homes Ahead Of Possible Mudslides" [8]

"Thousands of Southern Californians fled their homes on Monday as a powerful rain storm that could cause flash floods and trigger mudslides soaked steep slopes where a series of intense wildfires burned off vegetation last month."

Source: Reuters [9], 01/09/2018

"The Nation’s Rivers And Streams Are Getting Dangerously Saltier" [10]

"Nearly everywhere you turn during this frigid stretch of winter, much of the world seems covered in a layer of salt aimed at keeping our roads drivable and sidewalks free of ice. All that salt is one reason — although not the only one — that many of the nation’s rivers and streams are becoming saltier, according to new research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

Source: Washington Post [11], 01/09/2018

"US Hits Record For Costly Weather Disasters: $306 Billion" [12]

"With three strong hurricanes, wildfires, hail, flooding, tornadoes and drought, the United States tallied a record high bill last year for weather disasters: $306 billion."

Source: AP [13], 01/09/2018

Cliven Bundy Walks Free As Federal Judge Dismisses Ranch Standoff Case [14]

"Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy walked free from the federal courthouse Monday for the first time since his arrest two years ago on charges that he led an armed rebellion against the government in 2014."

Source: Arizona Republic [15], 01/09/2018

FERC Rejects Perry's Proposal for Nuclear and Coal Subsidies [16]

"Federal regulators on Monday rejected a proposal by Energy Secretary Rick Perry to subsidize struggling coal and nuclear plants, in a major blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to revive America’s declining coal industry."

Source: NY Times [17], 01/09/2018

The 2018 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment [18]

SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year with this "2018 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment" special report. Stay tuned as we continue to add elements to the report up through and beyond its formal launch Jan. 26 at an annual roundtable [19], organized by the Society of Environmental Journalists with George Mason University and the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.

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