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Global Trade Deal Threatens Paris Climate Goals, Leaked Documents Show [1]

"Controversial Trade in Services Agreement (Tisa) could make it harder for governments to favour clean energy over fossil fuels as part of efforts to keep temperature rises to 1.5C".

"A far-reaching global trade deal being negotiated in secret could threaten the goals of the Paris climate deal by making it harder for governments to favour clean energy over fossil fuels, a leak of the latest negotiating text shows.

Source: Guardian [2], 09/20/2016

Past California Droughts Have Lasted Hundreds of Years [3]

New research "suggests that massive long-term droughts can hit the region in conjunction with cycles of ocean warming and cooling — and that if these patterns continue to hold, another megadrought could lie in the future."

Source: Wash Post [4], 09/20/2016

"Nevada Regulators Restore Net Metering for Existing Solar Customers" [5]

"After months of legal and regulatory battles, Nevada utility regulators have unanimously approved a motion to restore retail-rate net metering for the state’s 32,000 existing solar customers."

Source: Greentech Media [6], 09/20/2016

"Most States On Track To Meet Emissions Targets They Call Burden" [7]

"The 27 states challenging Obama’s Clean Power Plan in court say the lower emissions levels it would impose are an undue burden. But most are likely to hit them anyway."

Source: Reuters [8], 09/20/2016

DEP: No Legal Requirement To Tell Neighbors Of Phosphate Plant Sinkhole [9]

Florida environmental agencies said they are not legally required to notify homeowners whose well water was contaminated by a sinkhole at a major phosphate operation.

Source: Tampa Bay Times [10], 09/20/2016

"Canada Will Impose Nationwide Carbon Price: Minister" [11]

"Canada will impose a carbon price on provinces that do not adequately regulate emissions by themselves, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said on Sunday without giving details on how the Liberal government will do so."

Source: Reuters [12], 09/20/2016

"United Nations: High-Level Climate Talks Begin In New York" [13]

"NEW YORK — Presidents and prime ministers, environmental advocates and entrepreneurs have descended on the Big Apple to help the landmark Paris climate deal take force and discuss new ways of reducing greenhouse gases."

Source: ClimateWire [14], 09/20/2016

"Mining Leaves A Wisconsin Tribe's Hallowed Sites At Risk" [15]

"MENOMINEE RESERVATION, Wisc. — Guy Reiter was an archaeologist before he was an activist. But the two merged after a dream six years ago. 'I was in a van and when we drove by the White Rapids I looked over and saw an elder sitting on a dam, in full Indian regalia,' Reiter says. 'He flagged me down, I climbed the dam, and he started talking to me in Menominee.'"

Source: EHN [16], 09/19/2016

"First Wave-Produced Electricity In US Goes Online In Hawaii" [17]

"In the waters off the coast of Hawaii, a tall buoy bobs and sways in the water, using the rise and fall of the waves to generate electricity. The current travels through an undersea cable for a mile to a military base, where it is fed into Oahu's power grid — the first wave-produced electricity to go online in the U.S."

Source: AP [18], 09/19/2016

$90B Whistleblower Suit Filed Against Four Major Chemical Companies [19]

"Four of the country's largest chemical companies have been accused of selling billions of dollars worth of harmful isocyanate chemicals but intentionally concealing their dangers to consumers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the past several decades."

Source: EcoWatch [20], 09/19/2016

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