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Infrastructure: Trump Decries 'Painful' Permitting, Big Enviro Reviews [1]

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

Economy & Business [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Environmental Studies [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Greenwire [8], 06/12/2017
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Transit Projects Across US at Risk As Trump Infrastructure Plan Falters [9]

"Dozens of public transit projects around the country are in danger of stalling as the White House’s plan to boost U.S. infrastructure fails to gain momentum — with thousands of jobs at risk."

Economy & Business [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Transportation [10]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [11], 06/12/2017
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"Trump Budget Risks Harm to U.S. Energy Future: 7 Former DOE Officials [12]

"Seven former heads of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy — from both Republican and Democratic administrations—teamed up on Thursday to warn Congress that the Trump administration's budget could do 'serious harm' to America's energy future."

Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [3]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: InsideClimate News [14], 06/09/2017
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Exxon May Have Erased 7 Years of Tillerson's 'Wayne Tracker' Emails [15]

"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 [16]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Science [17]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: InsideClimate News [18], 06/09/2017
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Solar Firms Plan To Return To Nevada After New Law Restores Incentives [19]

"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 [13]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [20]
Source: NPR [21], 06/09/2017
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Trump May Combine Offshore Oil Regulatory Agencies Split After BP Spill [22]

"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 [13]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Bloomberg [23], 06/09/2017
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Trump Administration To Review A Controversial Sage Grouse Plan [24]

"The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it will review a massive and controversial federal plan to protect the dwindling population of greater sage grouse in 11 western states."

Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [3]
Natural Resources [25]
Wildlife [26]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [27], 06/09/2017
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"Lawmakers Take Aim At Trump’s Interior Budget" [28]

"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke defended the Trump administration’s budget request for the department as 'what a balanced budget looks like' in the face of bipartisan criticism on Thursday."

Environmental Politics [3]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [29], 06/09/2017
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June 20, 2017

NPF Webinar: Climate Change – What’s Next? [30]

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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Climate Change [16]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]

Trump Plans to Shift Infrastructure Funding to Cities, States, Business [32]

"President Trump will lay out a vision this coming week for sharply curtailing the federal government’s funding of the nation’s infrastructure and calling upon states, cities and corporations to shoulder most of the cost of rebuilding roads, bridges, railways and waterways."

Economy & Business [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Transportation [10]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NY Times [33], 06/08/2017
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