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"Week Ahead: House Takes Up Bills Targeting EPA Regs" [1]

"The House will move in the coming week on a trio of regulatory and energy bills. The Rules Committee has scheduled a meeting Monday to begin looking at the three proposals: the Satisfying Energy Needs and Saving the Environment Act, the Blocking Regulatory Interference from Closing Kilns Act and the Comprehensive Regulatory Review Act."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [8], 03/05/2018
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Parts Suppliers Call for Cleaner Cars, Splitting With Automakers [9]

"In the debate over how quickly to make American cars pollute less, the nation’s auto-parts makers are now in open disagreement with the automakers that buy the countless transmissions, turbochargers and other components that make up modern automobiles."

Air [10]
Climate Change [11]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [12]
Transportation [13]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NY Times [14], 03/02/2018
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"EPA Starts Dismantling Obama Methane Rules On New Fracking Wells" [15]

"The Environmental Protection Agency announced two piecemeal actions on Thursday to reduce costs and regulatory "burdens" imposed on the oil and natural gas industry by the Obama administration's methane emission rules."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Examiner [16], 03/02/2018
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EPA Eased Herbicide Regulations Using Monsanto Research, Records Show [17]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lessened protections for crops and wildlife habitats after Monsanto Co. supplied research that presented lower estimates of how far the weed killer dicamba can drift, according to a review of federal documents."

Agriculture [18]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Science [20]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Midwest Ctr for Investigative Reporting [21], 03/02/2018
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Advisory Panel Dominated by Oil Execs Urges Lower Offshore Royalties [22]

"Oil executives urged the Trump administration to slash the rates their companies pay to harvest natural gas and crude from beneath U.S. waters."

Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Bloomberg [24], 03/02/2018
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"EPA Proposes Changes To Coal Ash Regulations" [25]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed changes to rules regulating coal ash waste from power plants that it said would give states more flexibility over its disposal and save electric utilities up to $100 million a year in compliance costs."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [12]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Reuters [26], 03/02/2018
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Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Bears Ears Monument, Emails Show [27]

"Even before President Trump officially opened his high-profile review last spring of federal lands protected as National Monuments, the Department of Interior was focused on the potential for oil and gas exploration at a protected Utah site, internal agency documents show."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [28]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NY Times [29], 03/02/2018
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"US Judge Blocks Weed-Killer Warning Label In California" [30]

"A U.S. judge blocked California from requiring that the popular weed-killer Roundup carry a label stating that it is known to cause cancer, saying the warning is misleading because almost all regulators have concluded there is no evidence that the product’s main ingredient is a carcinogen."

Agriculture [18]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
California [31]
Source: AP [32], 02/28/2018
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"Fisheries: Coast Guard Risks Rough Seas Stopping Red Snapper Poachers" [33]

"A small but swift U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat bounced violently over the choppy Gulf of Mexico last week, becoming airborne more than once before the chief ordered the pilot to slow down."

Fish & Fisheries [34]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [35]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [36]
Source: Greenwire [37], 02/28/2018
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GOPers Claim Climate Caucus Credentials, But Votes Tell Another Story [38]

"New scores from the League of Conservation Voters reveal the chasm between words and action: The caucus’s Republicans averaged 16 percent on environment votes."

Climate Change [11]
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Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: InsideClimate News [39], 02/28/2018
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