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"Build, Flood, Rebuild: Flood Insurance’s Expensive Cycle" [1]

"The National Flood Insurance Program, designed to protect Americans from catastrophic floods, has failed in almost every way, encouraging people to buy and build in flood-prone areas while increasing the cost and magnitude of disasters."

Disasters [2]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Planning & Growth [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Houston Chronicle [8], 12/11/2017
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EPA Lists 21 Toxic Superfund Sites That Need Immediate Cleanup [9]

"The Environmental Protection Agency released a list of Superfund sites around the country Friday that it said regulators will target 'for immediate and intense attention.'"

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [12]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [13], 12/11/2017
  • Read more about EPA Lists 21 Toxic Superfund Sites That Need Immediate Cleanup [9]

Trump CPSC Scuttles Rule To Save People From Dying of Carbon Monoxide [14]

"It took 16 years and more than 1,000 deaths for the Consumer Products Safety Commission to crack down on deadly portable generators. Trump’s appointees could undo that in a matter of months."

Consumer [15]
Disasters [2]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: ProPublica [16], 12/11/2017
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"The Environmental Scandal in Scott Pruitt’s Backyard" [17]

"It’s one of the dirtiest places in America. Former residents of Tar Creek, Oklahoma, want to know why Trump’s EPA chief didn’t prosecute allegations of wrongdoing during a federal buyout program."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [12]
Waste [18]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Politico [19], 12/11/2017
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Uranium Firm Urged Trump Officials To Shrink Bears Ears Monument [20]

"A uranium company launched a concerted lobbying campaign to scale back Bears Ears National Monument, saying such action would give it easier access to the area’s uranium deposits and help it operate a nearby processing mill, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post."

Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Natural Resources [22]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [23]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [24], 12/11/2017
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Trump EPA Slowed Actions Against Polluters, Put Limits on Enforcement [25]

"EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — The highway billboard at the entrance to town still displays a giant campaign photograph of President Trump, who handily won the election across industrial Ohio. But a revolt is brewing here in East Liverpool over Mr. Trump’s move to slow down the federal government’s policing of air and water pollution."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NY Times [26], 12/11/2017
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"Tax Policy: Energy Pressures Mount On Conferees" [27]

"House and Senate tax conferees are facing renewed pressure to fix provisions in the Senate bill that they say would harm clean energy and fossil fuel development alike."

Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E Daily [28], 12/11/2017
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"Air Pollution: Pruitt Backs Off Enforcement Of Power Plant Program" [29]

"U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is instructing agency officials to effectively drop enforcement of one key facet of the New Source Review program, in what could be a prelude to broad changes in the handling of air permits for both new plants and expansions of existing facilities."

Air [30]
Climate Change [31]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [12]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Greenwire [32], 12/11/2017
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FERC Seeks Delay In Considering Trump Coal, Nuclear Bailout [33]

"The head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is seeking a 30-day extension in the agency’s timeline to consider a proposal to prop up coal and nuclear power plants."

Climate Change [31]
Consumer [15]
Disasters [2]
Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Natural Resources [22]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [23]
Pollution [12]
Waste [18]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [35], 12/11/2017
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Patagonia Files Suit Against Trump Over Removing Bears Ears Protections [36]

"The company says Donald Trump is exceeding the powers of his office by enacting the largest removal of protection from federal lands in history".

Laws & Regulations [3]
Natural Resources [22]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Guardian [37], 12/08/2017
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