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"Britain To Press Ahead With Onshore Wind Subsidy Cuts Next Week" [1]

"Britain's new government will next week outline implementing its pledge to reduce onshore wind farm subsidies, the new energy minister has said, which will likely scupper plans for new wind turbines"

Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Public [4]
Europe [5]
Source: Reuters [6], 05/22/2015
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"Republican Jeb Bush Criticizes 'Arrogance' in Climate Change Debate" [7]

"Republican Jeb Bush rejected on Thursday what he called an arrogant view that anyone who questions how much climate change is a result of human activity is considered 'Neanderthal.'"

Climate Change [8]
Environmental Politics [3]
Science [9]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Reuters [11], 05/22/2015
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"US House Republicans Vote To Restrict Research Funding" [12]

"US House Republicans voted to place limits on funding for scientific research, including climate change studies, as they passed legislation that more narrowly defines their priorities."

Climate Change [8]
Environmental Politics [3]
Government [13]
Science [9]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: AFP [14], 05/21/2015
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"Obama Tells Coast Guard Grads Climate Change Threatens U.S." [15]

"Rising seas and thawing permafrost caused by warmer global temperatures threaten U.S. military bases and will change the way the U.S. armed services defend the country, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday."

Climate Change [8]
Environmental Politics [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Reuters [16], 05/21/2015
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What You're Not Supposed To Know About Secret Environmental Treaty [17]

The public is not allowed to know the terms of the draft Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact likely to come up for a Senate vote this year. Yet the Senate has already begun voting on terms for considering the treaty, which may allow other nations to override U.S. health, safety, and environmental protection laws. Fortunately, WikiLeaks has already published a leaked version of the environmental chapter of the TPP treaty.

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Environmental Health [19]
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Is Wyoming Ban on Reporting Environmental Harm Unconstitutional? [23]

A newly enacted Wyoming law seems to be aimed at criminalizing the collection and reporting of stream pollution or other environmental harm. It creates a unique new category of crime called "data trespass." Just what the law, signed in March by Gov. Matt Mead (R), means or does is being debated hotly.

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Activism [24]
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"Obama Recasts Climate Change as a More Far-Reaching Peril" [28]

"President Obama will use a commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut on Wednesday to cast his push for urgent action to combat climate change as a national security imperative, arguing that the warming of the planet poses an 'immediate risk' to the United States."

Climate Change [8]
Environmental Politics [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: NY Times [29], 05/20/2015
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"Yucca Mountain Left Out of Senate Funding Bill" [30]

"Senate appropriators have introduced a $35 billion energy and water spending bill that would not fund a nuclear waste depository at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain."

Environmental Politics [3]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [31]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: The Hill [32], 05/20/2015
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"The Truth Behind Peabody's Campaign To Rebrand Coal as a Poverty Cure" [33]

"The story Linda Jing tells in the video is slick and persuasive: she was a girl from a poor village forced to study by candlelight because there was no electricity until coal-fired power plants arrived, transforming her destiny and that of China."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [34]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Guardian [35], 05/20/2015
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"Green Group: Voters Like EPA Water Rule" [36]

"The public likes the Obama administration's proposed water rule, according to a new poll from the League of Conservation Voters (LCV)."

Environmental Politics [3]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: The Hill [38], 05/20/2015
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