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"An Oklahoma-based Native American tribe filed a lawsuit in its own tribal court system Friday accusing several oil companies of triggering the state’s largest earthquake that caused extensive damage to some near-century-old tribal buildings."
"Rick Ostfeld and Felicia Keesing have been studying Lyme disease and ways to stop it for more than 20 years. The couple has come up with a way to predict how bad a Lyme season will be a full year in advance."
"For nearly 50 years, Oroville Dam has been the linchpin of a sprawling state plumbing system that draws water from wet Northern California to 25 million people and thousands of acres of farmland in the arid south. That changed Feb. 7 when a crater as large as a football field dropped out of the dam's concrete-lined spillway."
"For years, the Obama administration proposed cuts to a Pacific salmon recovery program — and for years, Congress ignored the request and fully funded the program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."
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"The White House is fiercely divided over President Trump’s campaign promise to 'cancel' the Paris agreement, the 2015 accord that binds nearly every country to curb global warming, with more moderate voices maintaining that he should stick with the agreement despite his campaign pledge."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/peabody-energy-agrees-collateral-mine-cleanup-costs
[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-peabody-energy-bankruptcy-bonding-idUSKBN16D2Q6
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/oklahoma-tribe-sues-oil-companies-tribal-court-over-earthquake
[4] http://globalnews.ca/news/3287083/oil-companies-earthquake-lawsuit-pawnee-nation/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/forbidding-forecast-lyme-disease-northeast
[6] http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/03/06/518219485/forbidding-forecast-for-lyme-disease-in-the-northeast
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/infrastructure-risks-soar-bills-come-due-20th-century-dams-crumble
[8] http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060050980
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/noaa-lawmakers-likely-fight-proposed-budget-cuts
[10] http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060051001
[11] https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/get-wise-water-rule
[12] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/draining-different-kind-swamp
[13] https://www.sej.org/library/environmental-podcasts
[14] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-columbia-energy-journalism--fellows-program
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/top-trump-advisers-are-split-paris-agreement-climate-change
[16] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/us/politics/climate-change-trump.html?_r=0
[17] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[18] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2509
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2506
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2507
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2508
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2511
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2512
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2513
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2514
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4907