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Clean Water Rule: Pruitt Stars In Industry Video Promoting WOTUS Repeal [1]

"U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt appears in an agribusiness video urging farmers and ranchers to comment on the proposed repeal of the Obama-era Clean Water Rule, promoting the rollback of a regulation that he sued to stop as Oklahoma attorney general."

Agriculture [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Greenwire [10], 08/22/2017
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"In Solar Scuffle, Big Utilities Meet Their Match" [11]

"Solar advocates win a surprising victory in Nevada."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [8]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [13]
Source: High Country News [14], 08/22/2017
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"Green Group Launches Ad Against Regs Reform" [15]

"An environmental group launched an advertising campaign Monday to oppose a pair of bills meant to make it more difficult for federal agencies to write regulations."

Activism [16]
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: The Hill [17], 08/22/2017
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"Trump Rebuffs Coal Industry; CEO Claims Promise Broken" [18]

"The Trump administration has rejected a coal industry push to win a rarely used emergency order protecting coal-fired power plants, a decision one executive said breaks a personal promise from President Donald Trump to take the extraordinary step to benefit the industry."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: AP [19], 08/22/2017
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"Refiner Valero's Secret Campaign Against U.S. Biofuels Mandates" [20]

"U.S. biofuels regulations, which mandate mixing corn-based ethanol into gasoline, have lately drawn together a diverse cast of political opponents."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Reuters [21], 08/22/2017
  • Read more about "Refiner Valero's Secret Campaign Against U.S. Biofuels Mandates" [20]

"Some Democrats See Tax Overhaul as a Path to Taxing Carbon" [22]

"With a sweeping overhaul of the tax code on the horizon, two Senate Democrats believe this is the moment to broach the third rail of climate change policy: a carbon tax."

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [24]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NY Times [25], 08/21/2017
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"Broader Relaxation Of Environmental Rules Seen Coming From Foxconn" [26]

"Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to exempt Foxconn from state wetland restrictions may do more to attract smaller developments in the future than it will to lure the electronics giant to Wisconsin, critics of the plan say."

Economy & Business [24]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [27]
Source: Wisconsin State Journal [28], 08/21/2017
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"Trump’s Favorite Tycoon" [29]

"One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: New Yorker [30], 08/21/2017
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"Trump's Day Of Doom For National Monuments Approaches" [31]

"Created by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, the Cascade-Siskiyou monument protects Oregon’s extraordinary biodiversity, from butterflies to trout. But a Trump review threatens to open the landscape to the timber industry".

Energy & Fuel [12]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [32]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Guardian [33], 08/21/2017
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EPA Promised ‘a New Day’ for the Agriculture Industry, Documents Reveal [34]

"In the weeks before the Environmental Protection Agency decided to reject its own scientists’ advice to ban a potentially harmful pesticide, Scott Pruitt, the agency’s head, promised farming industry executives who wanted to keep using the pesticide that it is “a new day, and a new future,” and that he was listening to their pleas."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [35]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [6]
Science [37]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NY Times [38], 08/21/2017
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