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"Politics: House Targets Climate Voices With Hidden Provision" [1]

"Congress passed a major piece of financial legislation yesterday that climate advocates say threatens their ability to pressure corporations to address environmental risks."

Activism [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
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National (U.S.) [7]
Source: ClimateWire [8], 06/12/2017
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"Trump’s Proposed Climate Rule Reconsideration Nears Public Release" [9]

"President Trump’s White House is reviewing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed reconsideration of former President Barack Obama’s climate change rule for power plants."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [12], 06/12/2017
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Infrastructure: Trump Decries 'Painful' Permitting, Big Enviro Reviews [13]

"President Trump concluded his 'infrastructure week' today by promising to 'hold the bureaucracy accountable.'"

Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [14]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Greenwire [15], 06/12/2017
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Federal Judge Denies Trump Admin Appeal In Youth Climate Lawsuit [16]

"A federal judge has denied the Trump administration's appeal in a climate change lawsuit, paving the way for the unprecedented suit to go to trial."

Activism [2]
Climate Change [10]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Think Progress [17], 06/12/2017
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Exxon May Have Erased 7 Years of Tillerson's 'Wayne Tracker' Emails [18]

"Up to seven years of emails that former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson wrote under the alias 'Wayne Tracker' may have been erased, a company witness has told investigators for the New York attorney general."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Science [19]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: InsideClimate News [20], 06/09/2017
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Solar Firms Plan To Return To Nevada After New Law Restores Incentives [21]

"Some of Nevada's largest solar installation companies plan to resume doing business in the state. For the past year-and-a-half Tesla (formerly SolarCity) and Sunrun stopped seeking new customers in this sunny part of the country because the state's Public Utilities Commission chose to phase out incentives for homeowners who install rooftop solar panels. Now, Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval plans to sign into law a bill that brings back 'net metering.'"

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [22]
Source: NPR [23], 06/09/2017
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Trump May Combine Offshore Oil Regulatory Agencies Split After BP Spill [24]

"After the 2010 Gulf oil spill, the Obama administration broke the scandal-plagued federal agency that policed offshore drilling into separate bureaus. Now the Trump administration is considering putting it back together again."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Bloomberg [25], 06/09/2017
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June 20, 2017

NPF Webinar: Climate Change – What’s Next? [26]

This live, interactive National Press Foundation webinar, 2:30 p.m. EDT, will look at what the US decision to abandon the Paris accord will mean for states, cities and industries already working to address a warming planet, and related issues. Speaker is Vicki Arroyo, ED of the Georgetown Climate Center at Georgetown Law. Free registration required.

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"1836 Treaty Puts Michigan Tribes At Center Of Nestle Water Bid" [28]

"TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- Native American tribes with treaty rights to natural resources north of Grand Rapids are quietly coordinating with Michigan officials who are deciding whether to let Nestle Waters North America extract more spring water from trout stream headwaters where the tribes have inland fishing rights."

Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [29]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [31]
Source: Grand Rapids Press [32], 06/07/2017
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Inspector General Probing Whether EPA Staffer Colluded With Monsanto [33]

"The inspector general for the Environmental Protection Agency is initiating a probe into possible collusion between a former high-ranking EPA official and Monsanto, the maker of the herbicide glyphosate, according to a letter the IG sent to a lawmaker last Friday that HuffPost has obtained."

Chemicals [34]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Science [19]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: HuffPost [36], 06/07/2017
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