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$5B Minnesota Suit Alleges 3M Chemicals Caused Cancer And Infertility [1]

"Attorney General Lori Swanson says health and environmental damage totaled $5 billion. "

"The logo for 3M appears on a screen above the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. Caterpillar and Post-it note maker 3M lead a rally in industrial companies, while banks are climbing along with interest rates.

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [6]
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune [7], 11/21/2017
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"Senate Bill Would Cut EPA Funding By $150M" [8]

"The Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday introduced an Interior Department and environment spending bill that would cut nearly $150 million in funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) next year."

Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [9]
Government [10]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The Hill [12], 11/21/2017
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"Nebraska Allows Keystone XL Pipeline, But Picks a Different Path" [13]

"LINCOLN, Neb. — The nearly decade-long battle over Keystone XL has come to symbolize much more than what the disputed pipeline would actually be: a subterranean tube, 36 inches in diameter, carrying crude oil from Canada to Nebraska."

Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NY Times [15], 11/21/2017
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FOIA Suit, Silence on Hog Farms & Sea-Level Rise, Plus Shield Laws [16]

A push for disclosure on hazardous air emissions from industrial hog farms, and reporting on how the coastal real estate industry works to block bad news about sea-level rise. That, plus the Bay Journal FOIAs the EPA over grant defunding, and a move in Congress towards a federal shield law, all in the latest WatchDog.

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WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [18]
Climate Change [19]
Disasters [20]
Environmental Politics [9]
Government [10]
Journalism & Media [21]
Laws & Regulations [4]
People & Population [22]
Planning & Growth [23]
Pollution [24]
Waste [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [11]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [27]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [28]
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Public [5]
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Clean Power Plan Showdown Ahead, But Will It Matter? [29]

President Trump campaigned partly on the promise to abolish an Obama-era program to cut power plant CO2 emissions. But as TipSheet explains in the first in a series of special reports on key issues in the coming year, the program is tied up in complex court proceedings that may, in the end, be moot. Learn why.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [30]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [18]
Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [24]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [11]
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Public [5]
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"Ethics: 15 Energy Lobbyists Hired Using Trump's Weakened Rule" [31]

"Troy Lyons spent 2016 lobbying for Hess Corp., a New York City-based oil company. Among the issues he was hired to work on: U.S. EPA's proposed rules limiting methane emissions from new oil and gas wells, which Hess opposed. Then, when 2017 rolled around, Lyons got a new job. He went to work for EPA."

Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: ClimateWire [33], 11/20/2017
  • Read more about "Ethics: 15 Energy Lobbyists Hired Using Trump's Weakened Rule" [31]

"Appropriations: Trump Pushes Cuts To Cover $44B Disaster Request" [34]

"The White House today asked Congress for $44 billion in emergency hurricane relief for Puerto Rico, Texas and Florida as well as targeted tax relief for communities and homeowners hit by California wildfires."

Disasters [20]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Greenwire [35], 11/20/2017
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"Pruitt Defends Soundproof Phone Booth, Contact With Green Groups" [36]

"U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt this week justified his purchase of a $25,000 soundproof phone booth by explaining the difficultly of making "secure" phone calls at the agency's Washington headquarters."

Environmental Politics [9]
Journalism & Media [21]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Greenwire [37], 11/20/2017
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"Emanuel Blasts EPA, U.S. Steel on Pollution; Plans To To Sue Company" [38]

"After announcing on Sunday the city’s intent to sue U.S. Steel for polluting Lake Michigan, Mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted the company and federal environmental regulators who’ve been “asleep at the switch” under the Trump administration."

Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [6]
Source: Chicago Sun-Times [39], 11/20/2017
  • Read more about "Emanuel Blasts EPA, U.S. Steel on Pollution; Plans To To Sue Company" [38]

"Missouri Limits Use Of Weed Killer Linked To Crop Damage" [40]

"Missouri will limit the use of a weed killer made by BASF SE after farmers complained the chemical drifted and harmed their crops, following a move by Arkansas to prohibit sprayings next year of the herbicide and rival products."

Agriculture [41]
Chemicals [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Reuters [42], 11/20/2017
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