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"Army Corps Banks On Wetland Data EPA Deemed 'Unreliable'" [1]

"When the Trump administration finalized a key Clean Water Act rule last year, it slammed media outlets for citing federal data showing it would erase protections for more than half the nation's wetlands and 18% of streams."

Agriculture [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Environmental Studies [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: E&E News [9], 10/29/2020
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"Agreement Ends Dispute Over Threatened Mexican Spotted Owl" [10]

"Environmentalists have reached an agreement with federal land and wildlife managers that will clear the way for forest restoration efforts to resume in the Southwest."

Environmental Politics [3]
Forests [11]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Wildlife [12]
Public [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [13]
Source: AP [14], 10/29/2020
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Wyoming Using Dark Money To Help Keep Coal Plants In Other States Open [15]

"Stephanie Kodish is used to opposition to her work. In her job with the National Parks Conservation Association, she pushes utilities to comply with environmental laws. That can mean installing expensive new anti-pollution technology on coal plants, or even closing them down."

Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Justice [18]
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [19]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NPR [20], 10/29/2020
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Progressives Bet Drinking Water Can Help Flip A House Seat In Nebraska [21]

"An ad backing Green New Deal Democrat Kara Eastman in the Omaha area race casts GOP Rep. Don Bacon as a polluters’ stooge."

Environmental Politics [3]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: HuffPost [22], 10/29/2020
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"Mining, Logging Now Allowed in Tongass National Forest" [23]

"Alaska’s Tongass National Forest—America’s largest—is no longer protected under the 2001 Roadless Rule, and its remote islands and old-growth trees are now open to new logging and mining, according to a record of decision to be published Thursday in the Federal Register."

Environmental Politics [3]
Forests [11]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Alaska and Hawaii [24]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [25], 10/29/2020
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Struggling Oil Companies Are Still Giving Plenty to Republicans [26]

"Even as Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats have built a commanding lead in the money race ahead of the November election, the nation's oil and gas industry has continued to direct its formidable financial clout to support President Donald Trump and Republicans."

Climate Change [27]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Politics [3]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: InsideClimate News [28], 10/28/2020
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"The Most Important Climate Ballot Initiatives to Watch on Election Day" [29]

"The presidential race may be sucking up all the climate oxygen at the national level, but it’s far from the only place climate is on the ballot. This election is full of existential choices down the ballot, with tons of crucial Senate, House, and local fights, too."

Climate Change [27]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Earther [30], 10/28/2020
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"Trump Administration Buries Dozens Of Clean Energy Studies" [31]

"It was a scorching August day at the Hoover Dam as three Trump administration officials gathered for a little celebration honoring pollution-free hydroelectricity."

Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [19]
Science [32]
Technology [33]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Investigate West [34], 10/28/2020
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"As Election Nears, Trump Makes a Final Push Against Climate Science" [35]

"The Trump administration has recently removed the chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier scientific agency, installed new political staff who have questioned accepted facts about climate change and imposed stricter controls on communications at the agency."

Climate Change [27]
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [19]
Science [32]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NYTimes [36], 10/28/2020
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"Japan’s New Leader Sets Ambitious Goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2050" [37]

"Japan will be carbon neutral by 2050, its prime minister said on Monday, making an ambitious pledge to sharply accelerate the country’s global warming targets, even as it plans to build more than a dozen new coal-burning power plants in the coming years."

Climate Change [27]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [19]
Public [7]
Asia [38]
Source: NYTimes [39], 10/27/2020
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