"The record-setting heat wave in Australia last year was "largely attributable" to human-caused climate change, according to a synthesis report released Monday. Heat waves in Japan, Korea, China and Europe were also "substantially influenced" by global warming, the report found."
"Critics of the Environmental Protection Agency's water jurisdiction rule are spreading misinformation, the agency's chief said Monday."
"Although not the primary source of Great Lakes algae, climate change is exacerbating the problem and making it harder to reduce phosphorus and other nutrients that help algae grow, experts say."
"The worst decline was among populations of freshwater species, which fell by 76 percent over the four decades to 2010, while marine and terrestrial numbers both fell by 39 percent."
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doesn’t do enough to stop hundreds of hazardous chemicals from getting into waterways via sewage plants, a watchdog report found."
"The company promoting the controversial and beleaguered Pebble mine project lost a legal battle Friday when a federal judge threw out one of its lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency."
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"Deborah Swackhamer, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Minnesota, decided last year to investigate the chemistry of the nearby Zumbro River. She and her colleagues were not surprised to find traces of pesticides in the water."
"North Dakota’s oil rush brings cash and promise to reservation, along with drug-fueled crime"
"The state Department of Environmental Protection might have used incomplete and inaccurate test information to decide whether chemicals leaking from a Marcellus Shale wastewater impoundment and a drill cuttings pit contaminated a water well and springs in Washington County."
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[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/climate-change-extreme-we_n_5902482.html?utm_hp_ref=green
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[4] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/219172-epas-mccarthy-critics-of-clean-water-rule-are-wrong
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[10] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/219233-auditors-fault-epa-for-lax-chemical-safeguards
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/alaska-judge-dismisses-pebble-lawsuit-against-epa-premature
[12] http://www.adn.com/article/20140926/alaska-judge-dismisses-pebble-lawsuit-against-epa-premature
[13] https://www.sej.org/calendar/sej-poynter-science-and-environmental-journalism-workshop
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