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"Strangled Ohio Wind Industry: 'We Don't Want To Give Up'" [1]

"For the past five years, wind developers in Ohio have faced what they describe as among the most restrictive turbine-siting rules anywhere in the United States."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [6]
Source: EnergyWire [7], 07/15/2019
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"Trump Administration Freezing Fuel Efficiency Penalties" [8]

"The Trump administration said late on Friday it was issuing final rules to suspend a 2016 Obama administration regulation that more than doubled penalties for automakers failing to meet fuel efficiency requirements."

Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [11]
Transportation [12]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reuters [14], 07/15/2019
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"EPA To Allow Use Of Pesticide Considered ‘Very Highly Toxic’ To Bees" [15]

"The Environmental Protection Agency approved broad new applications Friday for a controversial insecticide, despite objections from environmental groups and beekeepers who say it is among the compounds responsible for eviscerating the nation’s bee populations."

Agriculture [16]
Chemicals [17]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Wildlife [18]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [19], 07/15/2019
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EPA Plans to Curtail Ability of Communities to Oppose Pollution Permits [20]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to weaken rules that for the past quarter-century have given communities a voice in deciding how much pollution may legally be released by nearby power plants and factories."

Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [11]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NY Times [21], 07/15/2019
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"Mining Company Rejects EPA Order For Superfund Cleanup Work" [22]

"A mining company says it won’t carry out cleanup work ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of a Superfund project in southwest Colorado."

Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Natural Resources [23]
Pollution [11]
Public [5]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [24]
Source: AP [25], 07/12/2019
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"Oil and Gas Industry Trumpets National Parks Upkeep Bill" [26]

"Oil and gas industry groups are becoming more vocal in supporting bipartisan legislation that proposes using federal fossil fuel production royalties to chip away at the $12 billion maintenance backlog at national parks."

Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Natural Resources [23]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [27], 07/12/2019
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"Climate-Friendly Highway Bill Coming Before August Recess" [28]

"The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is on track to advance a surface transportation bill with climate change components before the end of the month."

Climate Change [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Transportation [12]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E Daily [29], 07/12/2019
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"California Lawmakers Seek To Slow Desert Water Project" [30]

"A project to pump billions of gallons of water out from under the Mojave Desert and sell it to people in Southern California could be slowed by a bill approved for the first time on Thursday by the Democratic-controlled Legislature."

Laws & Regulations [4]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [5]
California [32]
Source: AP [33], 07/12/2019
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California Lawmakers Approve Legislation For $21 Billion Wildfire Fund [34]

"California lawmakers approved legislation on Thursday to create a $21 billion fund to help utilities in the state pay for claims arising from future wildfires sparked by their equipment, tackling a top issue for the state."

Disasters [35]
Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [36]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
California [32]
Source: Reuters [37], 07/12/2019
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"Trump Threatens Veto On Defense Bill That Targets 'Forever Chemicals'" [38]

"One day after President Trump delivered a speech preaching of his administration’s environmental achievements, he threatened to veto a military spending bill in part due to provisions that aim to clean up a toxic, cancer-linked chemical found near military bases."

Chemicals [17]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Military [39]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [40], 07/11/2019
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