"20% of Dams In Populated Areas Lack Emergency Plan" [1]
"As the nation's 84,000 dams continue to age, a growing number of people downstream are at risk, experts say."
Source: USA TODAY [2], 02/22/2017
"As the nation's 84,000 dams continue to age, a growing number of people downstream are at risk, experts say."
"The Oklahoma attorney general's office says it has complied with a judge's order to surrender documents related to new Environmental Protection Agency leader Scott Pruitt's communications with energy companies."
"In his first full work day as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt made clear Tuesday that he intends to step back from what he sees as the agency’s regulatory overreach during the Obama administration."
"Leather processing is big business in Bangladesh, India, and other parts of the developing world, where regulations are lax and poisons run freely."
"Florida wildlife officials say their annual manatee survey counted 6,620 of the sea cows — the most since the state began the census in 1991."
"Late Friday the Trump administration announced it's delaying grant money that would electrify the train line between San Francisco and San Jose."
"LOXAHATCHEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Fla. — Florida water managers are preparing to evict the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this summer from a swath of Everglades that it's managed for 66 years."
"The group of 40 people gathered at a popular burger and fish taco restaurant in San Antonio listened eagerly to the latest news about the anti-vaccine fight taking place in the Texas legislature."
"Scientists predicted decades ago that climate change would add stress to water management systems like Oroville Dam".
"In at least four states, encampments built as bases for pipeline resistance have emerged." They include the Trans-Pecos Pipeline, the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline, the Sabal Trail Pipeline, and the Pilgrim Pipeline.
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[2] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/13/dams-nationwide-emergency-plan/97870636/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-heads-emails-energy-companies-be-released
[4] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article134118099.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pruitt-epa-employees-no-need-choose-between-jobs-and-environment
[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/21/pruitt-to-epa-employees-we-dont-have-to-choose-between-jobs-and-the-environment/?utm_term=.163601237667
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/skin-deep-feeding-global-lust-leather
[8] https://undark.org/article/leather-tanning-bangladesh-india/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/holy-sea-cow-florida-survey-spots-record-number-manatees
[10] http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/EnvironmentandNature/Article_2017-02-20-FL--Manatee Census/id-6ecc85b885f745c2b46ea5066c7c7a2c
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-administration-halts-674m-caltrain-improvement-grant
[12] http://abc7news.com/news/trump-administration-halts-$674m-caltrain-improvement-grant/1760998/
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/everglades-restoration-alliance-teeters-fla-plans-refuge-takeover
[14] http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060050291
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-energizes-anti-vaccine-movement-texas
[16] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-energizes-the-anti-vaccine-movement-in-texas/2017/02/20/795bd3ae-ef08-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html?utm_term=.80e6ca47b188
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/expect-see-more-emergencies-oroville-dam-hotter-world
[18] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/feb/20/expect-to-see-more-emergencies-like-oroville-dam-in-a-hotter-world
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/standing-rock-construction-restarts-pipeline-fights-flare-across-us
[20] https://theintercept.com/2017/02/19/as-construction-near-standing-rock-restarts-pipeline-fights-flare-across-the-u-s/
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