"A handful of people among the list of mostly bankers and investors advising Donald Trump on the economy have taken positions on climate change and U.S. dependence on fossil fuels."
"Colonial Pipeline announced Wednesday that the company has restarted its Line 1, which had been shut down for more than 12 days, causing gasoline shortages and price increases, felt most in places like Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee."
"An agreement to fight global warming came one step closer to taking effect on Wednesday when dozens of countries deposited their ratification of the deal at the United Nations, taking the total to 60, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said."
"ExxonMobil Corp. has agreed to pay $12 million to Montana and the U.S. government to restore natural resources damaged or destroyed by a pipeline rupture in 2011 that spilled oil into the Yellowstone River, according to a settlement proposed on Wednesday."
"President Obama signed a presidential memorandum Wednesday establishing that climate-change impacts must be factored into the development of all national security-related doctrine, policies and plans."
"The U.S. Coast Guard is now saying it is responding to reports of two oil sheens in San Pablo Bay near the Phillips 66 refinery. Officials have not said how much oil has spilled, and investigators have not determined the source of either spill."
"An environmental group on Wednesday accused three major TV manufacturers of misleading consumers and regulators about how much energy high-definition screens devour, alleging that the televisions were designed to perform more efficiently during government testing than in ordinary use."
"Rapidly melting Greenland may be shedding its ice even faster than anyone suspected, new research suggests. A study just out in the journal Science Advances finds that previous studies may have underestimated the current rate of mass loss on the Greenland ice sheet by about 20 billion tons per year. "
"Repair crews worked through the night trying to restore electricity to Puerto Rico's 3.5 million people early Thursday after a fire at a power plant blacked out the entire U.S. territory."
#SEJ2016 in Sacramento, California, hosted by Capital Public Radio and UC Davis, took place Sep 21-25, 2016. Find coverage here, [19] peruse the agenda [20] or read speaker bios. [21] Photo: SEJ board VP Jennifer Bogo, Rachel Carson Environment Book Award winner Deborah Cramer and SEJ board president Jeff Burnside (l-r) during the Celebrating Environmental Journalism Luncheon. [22] By Kevin Beaty [23] (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0 [24]].
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/who%E2%80%99s-advising-donald-trump-climate-and-energy
[2] http://www.bna.com/whos-advising-donald-n57982077324/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/alabama-pipeline-restarts-restoring-gasoline-flow-east-coast
[4] http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/09/gasoline_pipeline_restart.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-deal-comes-one-step-closer-effect-united-nations
[6] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-assembly-climatechange-idUSKCN11R1QM
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/exxonmobil-pay-12-million-montana-oil-spill-settlement
[8] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-exxon-mobil-montana-spill-idUSKCN11R29O
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama-orders-national-security-agencies-factor-climate-policy
[10] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/21/for-the-first-time-obama-requires-u-s-government-to-factor-climate-into-national-security-policy/?utm_term=.ce56422d6a10
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/san-pablo-bay-oil-spill-sickens-some-cleanup-probe-source-underway
[12] https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/21/officials-investigate-whether-phillips-66-refinery-tied-to-san-pablo-bay-oil-spill/
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/environmentalists-your-tv-uses-more-electricity-you-think
[14] http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0921/Is-your-flat-screen-TV-gulping-more-electricity-than-advertised
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/greenland-may-be-losing-ice-even-faster-scientists-thought
[16] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/21/greenland-may-be-losing-ice-even-faster-than-scientists-thought/?utm_term=.c7d54c6e6559
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/crews-rush-restore-power-blacked-out-puerto-rico
[18] http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/3a75c766e1eb43e281df9a90e862ad40/crews-rush-restore-power-blacked-out-puerto-rico
[19] https://www.sej.org/sej-annual-conferences/AC2016-coverage
[20] https://www.sej.org/sej-annual-conferences/AC2016-agenda
[21] https://www.sej.org/sej-annual-conferences/AC2016-speakers
[22] https://www.sej.org/sej-annual-conferences/AC2016-coverage#EJLunch
[23] https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinjbeaty/31014988592/in/pool-sej2016sacramento/
[24] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
[25] https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SEJ2016Evaluation
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[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2680
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2677
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2678
[30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2679
[31] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2682
[32] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2683
[33] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2684
[34] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2685
[35] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4950