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"House GOP Moves To Ease Federal Land Transfers" [1]

"House Republicans are endorsing a procedural change to make it easier for Congress to transfer federal land to state or local government agencies."

Source: The Hill [2], 01/04/2017

"Side Effect Of California's Drought: More Climate Pollution" [3]

"Droughts are already getting longer and more severe because of human-caused climate change in the American Southwest and around the world. But the drought-climate connection goes both ways: California's prolonged dry spell has also made climate change a little bit worse."

Source: Palm Springs Desert Sun [4], 01/04/2017

"EPA’s New Worker Protection Standard Faces Uncertain Future" [5]

"EPA's revised Worker Protection Standard is scheduled to take effect on Monday (Jan. 2), but the new rules face an uncertain future in the new administration."

Source: Delta Farm Press [6], 01/04/2017

NC Environmental Chief Moves To Block His Own Removal By New Governor [7]

"The head of the Department of Environmental Quality will stay at the agency, despite an incoming Democratic administration."

"A top state environmental regulator who has urged Trump to rein in the EPA and has been criticized for his lenient treatment of polluters, stepped down over the holidays - giving himself a staff position that will be protected under the new North Carolina administration.

Source: AP [8], 01/04/2017

"US-Trained Dolphins To Help Locate Mexico's Vaquita Porpoise" [9]

"U.S. Navy-trained dolphins and their handlers will participate in a last-ditch effort to catch, enclose and protect the last few dozen of Mexico's critically endangered vaquita porpoises to save them from extinction."

Source: AP [10], 01/04/2017

"Warming Crushes Global Records Again In 2016" [11]

"2016 has crushed the record for hottest year, set way back in 2015, which itself smashed the previous record for hottest year that was set in 2014."

Source: Think Progress [12], 01/04/2017

"Trump Could Be Fighting Obama's Climate Policies For Years" [13]

"President-elect Donald Trump’s energy agenda is shaping up to be a years-long effort to undo President Obama’s policies."

Source: The Hill [14], 01/04/2017

Methane's On The Rise, But Regulations To Stop Gas Leaks Still Debated [15]

"There's more methane gas in the atmosphere than there used to be, by every scientific measure. The Obama administration has been trying to stem the increase of this powerful greenhouse gas, but the incoming Trump administration appears bent on keeping the government's hands off methane."

Source: NPR [16], 01/04/2017

"House Republicans, Under Fire, Back Down on Gutting Ethics Office" [17]

"It was supposed to be a triumphant morning for Republicans on Capitol Hill — a moment to demonstrate the merits of unified party rule in the age of Donald J. Trump. By noon, party leaders had a message for their charges: It was not going smoothly."

Source: NY Times [18], 01/04/2017

"Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest Faces Fracking Threat" [19]

"The latest battleground for the future of fracking in Britain looks set to be Sherwood Forest, the legendary home of folk hero Robin Hood and now the target of a seismic survey by Ineos."

Source: Guardian [20], 01/03/2017

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