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"Advocacy: Gina McCarthy On Clean Energy, Climate And 2020 Elections" [1]

"Gina McCarthy wrapped up week two as head of the Natural Resources Defense Council by laying out her goals to reporters for what will be a pivotal year in energy and environmental policy."

Environmental Politics [2]
Journalism & Media [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Greenwire [7], 01/20/2020
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"How Trump’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Would Put Patients’ Privacy at Risk" [8]

"When patients participate in health studies, their medical and genetic details are typically kept anonymous to protect them. A controversial Trump administration plan to limit the scientific studies used in policymaking could put that anonymity in jeopardy, a new study warns."

Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Politics [2]
Environmental Studies [10]
Journalism & Media [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Science [11]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: InsideClimate News [12], 01/20/2020
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"Warren to Perry: Resign From Energy Transfer Board Seat" [13]

"U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren called for former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign from a board seat overseeing the Dallas pipeline company Energy Transfer, calling his move into an industry his agency oversaw “unethical”."

Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Houston Chronicle [15], 01/20/2020
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"Trump Teases Plan To Roll Back Key Obama-Era Water Rule" [16]

"President Trump announced his administration's plan for a major rollback to an Obama-era water rule on Sunday, a move the White House believes could pay dividends with the farm vote in this year's presidential election."

Agriculture [17]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: The Hill [19], 01/20/2020
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Oversight Finds EPA Political Appointees Slow-Walked Ethics Obligations [20]

"A House Oversight and Reform Committee review found the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) let political appointees take months to sign required ethics pledges and compile recusal lists, allowing leaders to work on issues where they had substantial conflicts of interest, the panel argued."

Environmental Politics [2]
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Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: The Hill [21], 01/20/2020
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"Court Quashes Youth Climate Change Case Against Government" [22]

"A federal appeals court has thrown out the landmark climate change lawsuit brought on behalf of young people against the federal government."

Activism [23]
Climate Change [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NY Times [26], 01/20/2020
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"Washington Supreme Court OKs Lesser Version Of Carbon Cap" [27]

"The state Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated a severely limited version of Gov. Jay Inslee’s plan to cap carbon pollution in the state, a decision the Democrat described as a “clarion call” that lawmakers must act on climate change."

Climate Change [24]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
Northwest (OR WA) [28]
Source: AP [29], 01/17/2020
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"Supreme Court Rejects B.C. Appeal Of Trans Mountain Pipeline Case" [30]

"The Supreme Court of Canada shut down British Columbia’s move to regulate what can flow through an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta."

Energy & Fuel [14]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
Canada [31]
Source: Canadian Press [32], 01/17/2020
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Renewables: "Transmission Hamstrings Push For 100% Clean Electricity" [33]

"A coalition of grid companies has fired off a new argument on why green energy advocates should embrace strategic, long-haul, high-voltage transmission lines and why federal regulators need to make that happen."

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Technology [34]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: EnergyWire [35], 01/17/2020
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Energy Firms Have Friend At Trump’s Interior: Their Former Lobbyist [36]

"David Bernhardt, the man in charge of the nation’s public lands, has come through the revolving door of Washington, D.C. lobbying and back out again. Before becoming secretary of the Department of the Interior, he collected nearly $5 million for his firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a lobbyist and lawyer from energy clients. Since he took the new post in July 2017, Bernhardt’s former clients have spent a lot of money trying to influence the Department of Interior."

Economy & Business [37]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Mother Jones [38], 01/17/2020
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