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$287 Billion Highway Bill Includes Climate Title For 1st Time Ever" [1]

"The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today [Monday] released the largest highway bill in congressional history, and it contains significant funding for addressing climate change."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Transportation [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Greenwire [10], 07/30/2019
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"How Science Got Trampled in the Rush to Drill in the Arctic" [11]

"Every year, hundreds of petroleum industry executives gather in Anchorage for the annual conference of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, where they discuss policy and celebrate their achievements with the state’s political establishment. In May 2018, they again filed into the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center, but they had a new reason to celebrate."

Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Environmental Studies [12]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [14]
Science [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Alaska and Hawaii [17]
Source: Politico [18], 07/29/2019
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Bristol Bay: How Investors Got A Heads-Up On EPA's Pebble Mine Reversal [19]

"An EPA memo that could alter the fate of the Pebble mine caught many of its foes off guard last month. But not investors."

Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Politics [5]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [8]
Alaska and Hawaii [17]
Source: Greenwire [20], 07/29/2019
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Court Strikes Down Fish & Wildlife Permit For Atlantic Coast Pipeline [21]

"Dominion Energy’s hopes for resuming construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline have run into a new obstacle erected by a federal appeals court panel in Richmond that threw out a federal permit on Friday because it failed to adequately protect endangered or threatened species in the path of the 605-mile project."

Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Wildlife [22]
Public [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [23]
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch [24], 07/29/2019
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Critics Call Trump Bears Ears Plan ‘Salt In An Open Wound.’ [25]

"Nearly two years after dramatically shrinking the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, the Trump administration finalized a management plan Friday that would allow trees to be plowed down using heavy chains, as well as utility lines and more ranching, in the smaller area that is still preserved."

Environmental Politics [5]
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Public [8]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [26]
Source: Washington Post [27], 07/29/2019
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"Chemicals: Enviros File FOIA Suits For Pesticide Docs" [28]

"Environmentalists went to court today in hopes of squeezing myriad pesticides-related documents out from several allegedly unresponsive federal agencies."

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"Schiff Demands Intelligence Agencies Provide Documents On White House’s Suppression Of Climate Testimony" [33]

"House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) demanded Tuesday that the heads of two federal intelligence agencies provide documents detailing how White House officials sought to edit — and then suppress — written testimony saying that human activities are warming the planet and that the climate changes underway pose a grave national security threat."

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [29]
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Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [5]
Journalism & Media [32]
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"Feds Look Again At Reintroducing Grizzly Bears To North Cascades" [34]

"The on-again, off-again effort to return grizzly bears to North Cascades National Park is back on."

Laws & Regulations [6]
Wildlife [22]
Public [8]
Northwest (OR WA) [35]
Source: Seattle Times [36], 07/26/2019
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Fearing Oil Spills, Tribe Sues to Get Pipeline Removed from Its Land [37]

"Driven by fears of rapid erosion that threatens to expose a crude oil pipeline to rushing water, a Native American tribe is suing pipeline giant Enbridge to force it to remove an aging pipeline whose easement through the reservation has expired."

Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [38]
Pollution [39]
Public [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [40]
Source: InsideClimate News [41], 07/26/2019
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Carmakers, Rejecting Trump Pollution Rule, Strike Deal With California [42]

"Four of the world’s largest automakers have struck a deal with California to reduce automobile emissions, siding with the state in its fight with President Trump over one of his most consequential regulatory rollbacks."

Climate Change [2]
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Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [39]
Transportation [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NY Times [43], 07/26/2019
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