"350,000 Sign Petition Asking for Federal Probe of Exxon" [1]
"House Democrats also announced they are planning a broader probe into other fossil fuel companies and their climate research."
Source: InsideClimate News [2], 11/20/2015
"House Democrats also announced they are planning a broader probe into other fossil fuel companies and their climate research."
"Panel finds little basis in EPA's 1,000-page study for claim that fracking has not led to 'widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water.'"
"Candidates for the Democratic nomination for president are scrambling to show that they care about the coal miners and communities that are suffering due to the industry’s downturn."
"Analysis by Maplight researchers finds senators who voted against EPA rules received 17 times more coal industry money".
Researchers have found that some antibiotic-resistant bacteria can transfer their resistance to other strains.
"After decades of review and endless controversy, the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the nation's first genetically altered animal -- a salmon genetically engineered to grow twice as fast as its natural counterpart."
After journalism groups protested federal rules imposing fees and permits on journalists working on public lands, the Senate Energy Committee November 19 approved a bill that would exempt newsgathering. By voice vote, the panel first approved an amendment containing the exemption, and then approved the underlying bill, S. 556, known as Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015.
"The upcoming Thanksgiving holiday is generally celebrated with a bounty of food — and a mountain of leftovers, some of which, let's face it, will end up in the trash."
"U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday said Congress would not approve the Obama administration's $500 million request for its first payment into a United Nations climate fund, a move they said would undermine the upcoming climate change summit in Paris."
"The Energy Department has proposed a 17-year delay in building a complex waste treatment plant at its radioactively contaminated Hanford site in Washington state, pushing back the full start-up for processing nuclear bomb waste to 2039."
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/350000-sign-petition-asking-federal-probe-exxon
[2] http://insideclimatenews.org/news/19112015/petition-exxon-mobil-climate-change-federal-probe-attorney-general
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-finding-fracking-water-pollution-disputed-its-own-scientists
[4] http://insideclimatenews.org/news/19112015/fracking-water-pollution-epa-study-natural-gas-drilling
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hillary-clinton-woos-coal-communities
[6] http://www.hcn.org/articles/hillary-woos-coal-communities-clinton
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/report-senators-voting-against-epa-rules-got-more-coal-industry-cash
[8] http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/19/report-senators-voting-against-epa-rules-received-more-coal-industry-cash.html
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/e-coli-bacteria-can-transfer-antibiotic-resistance-other-bacteria
[10] http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/11/20/456689272/e-coli-bacteria-can-transfer-antibiotic-resistance-to-other-bacteria
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fda-approves-genetically-engineered-salmon
[12] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/11/19/the-fda-just-approved-the-nations-first-genetically-engineered-animal-a-salmon-that-grows-twice-as-fast/?hpid=hp_rhp-more-top-stories_no-name%3Ahomepage/story
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[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/just-eat-it-filmmakers-feast-6-months-discarded-food
[15] http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/18/456489490/in-just-eat-it-filmmakers-feast-for-6-months-on-discarded-food
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/gop-senators-vow-block-climate-aid-scrutinize-paris-deal
[17] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/18/us-climatechange-summit-congress-idUSKCN0T72LM20151118#TKvk8tUQp3HY75cJ.97
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/feds-propose-17-year-delay-start-hanford-nuclear-cleanup
[19] http://www.latimes.com/science/la-na-hanford-delay-20151118-story.html
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