"Thirty pronghorns, close cousins to antelope, died while crossing a frozen river in south central Idaho, in a very rare event for the sure-footed mammals, state wildlife managers said Tuesday."
"The Obama administration wrote a second check for $500 million on Tuesday to the Green Climate Fund, an international organization designed to help the developing world adapt to global warming and deploy more clean energy technologies."
"In a powerful testament to the warming of the planet, two leading U.S. science agencies Wednesday jointly declared 2016 the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record set just last year — which, itself, had topped a record set in 2014.
Average surface temperatures in 2016, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, were 0.07 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than 2015, and featured eight successive months (January through August) that were individually the warmest since the agency’s record began in 1880.
"Among Donald Trump's cabinet nominees awaiting Senate confirmation, few are expected to face tougher scrutiny than Scott Pruitt, the president-elect's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency. The Oklahoma attorney general is a relentless adversary of that agency and its regulations, and he has deep ties to the fossil fuel industry he would be charged with overseeing."
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To help keep tabs on the newly seated 115th Congress and its gate-keepers of energy and environment law, the latest TipSheet offers a checklist of committee leadership. Plus, a closer look at three key Senate panels, likely agendas and new leadership, such as Senate Energy Committee Chair John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (shown in photo).
"A 2000 treaty committed the two nations to study and conserve their polar bears. Even as political tensions rise, climate change and other pressures make their work more necessary than ever."
"WAUKESHA, Wis. — This city has become the battleground for one of North America’s fiercest water wars, one that is taking the Great Lakes region into more uncharted legal territory in 2017."
"Hundreds of thousands of septic systems in Michigan may be worn out, failed or failing, experts say. And research has shown they are polluting waters across the state."
"Illinois elementary schools and day care centers must test drinking water sources for lead and notify parents of the results under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Bruce Rauner."
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[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-idaho-pronghorns-idUSKBN15203H
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama-directs-500-million-green-climate-fund-just-trump-takes-office
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[9] https://www.sej.org/calendar/digital-security-journalists
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[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wisconsin-city-forefront-%E2%80%98water-wars%E2%80%99
[14] http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2017/01/16/Wisconsin-City-at-forefront-of-water-wars.html
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/aging-septic-systems-fouling-michigan-waters
[16] http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/01/16/aging-septic-systems-fouling-michigan-waters/96639750/
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/illinois-governor-signs-lead-testing-law-schools-day-care-centers
[18] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-rauner-school-lead-testing-law-20170116-story.html
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