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Pipeline Payday: How Builders Win Big, Whether Gas Is Needed or Not [1]

"The real fight over America's energy future isn't in coal, despite the Trump administration's public focus on a mining revival. Rather, dozens of pipeline projects, making up one of the largest expansions of natural gas infrastructure in U.S. history, are where the fossil fuel action is."

Economy & Business [2]
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National (U.S.) [5]
Source: InsideClimate News [6], 08/04/2017
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"Nuclear: Soaring $20B Estimate Cloaks Vogtle Reactors" [7]

"Southern Co.'s preliminary figures for its nuclear expansion in Georgia now put the new source of electricity on the grid no earlier than 2022 and push the total price tag for twin reactors to more than $20 billion."

Economy & Business [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [8]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: EnergyWire [9], 08/04/2017
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"Keystone XL Survived Politics But Economics Could Kill It" [10]

"The proposed Keystone XL pipeline survived nine years of protests, lawsuits and political wrangling that saw the Obama administration reject it and President Donald Trump revive it, but now the project faces the possibility of death by economics."

Economy & Business [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Canada [11]
Source: AP [12], 08/03/2017
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"U.S. Nuclear Comeback Stalls as Two Reactors Are Abandoned" [13]

"In a major blow to the future of nuclear power in the United States, two South Carolina utilities said on Monday that they would abandon two unfinished nuclear reactors in the state, putting an end to a project that was once expected to showcase advanced nuclear technology but has since been plagued by delays and cost overruns."

Economy & Business [2]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [8]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: NY Times [14], 08/01/2017
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"AEP to Spend $4.5 Billion on the Largest Wind Farm in the U.S." [15]

"U.S. utility giant American Electric Power Co. is looking to invest $4.5 billion in a massive wind farm spread across Oklahoma’s panhandle and a new transmission line that will carry the power to customers."

Economy & Business [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Bloomberg [16], 07/27/2017
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"Prospect of Trump Tariff Casts Pall Over U.S. Solar Industry" [17]

"U.S. solar companies are snapping up cheap imported solar panels ahead of a trade decision by the Trump administration that could drive up costs and cloud the fortunes of one of the economy's brightest stars."

Economy & Business [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [18]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Reuters [19], 07/26/2017
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Court Strikes Down “Ag-Gag” Law; plus a Journalist’s Legal Guide; State Shield for Climate Research and More [20]

A federal court has ruled unconstitutional a Utah law that made undercover filming of livestock operations illegal. What's it mean for similar laws elsewhere? The latest WatchDog has the story, plus news on protecting whistleblowers, a digital journalist's legal guide, shielding of climate info and leaked government reports.

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Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [18]
Food [26]
Government [27]
Journalism & Media [28]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [8]
Policy [30]
Water & Oceans [31]
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Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [33]
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  • Read more about Court Strikes Down “Ag-Gag” Law; plus a Journalist’s Legal Guide; State Shield for Climate Research and More [20]

"Michael Dourson Tapped To Lead U.S. EPA Chemical Program" [36]

"Michael Dourson, President Donald J. Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s office that oversees commercial chemicals and pesticides, is a board-certified toxicologist with decades of experience in risk assessment. Dourson’s close ties to the chemical industry, however, have some environmental groups raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest."

Chemicals [37]
Economy & Business [2]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Science [38]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: C&EN [39], 07/19/2017
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‘Cut Through Fog’ to Cover Trump’s Fast-Moving Environmental Policy Changes [40]

Policy experts and reporters at an SEJ forum in Seattle July 6 cautioned that environmental journalists must go into overdrive to keep up with fast and furious changes coming during the Trump Administration. Get more in our SEJ News coverage. [40] Photo: Former EPA official Dennis McLerran, left, fields a query from moderator Jeff Burnside. Read McLerran's full remarks here [41].

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“Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River” [43]

Writer David Owen's “Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River” tells the story of the Colorado, while exploring water issues ranging from drought and climate degradation to cross-state and cross-border legal complexities.

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