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New Jersey, Virginia Take Steps Toward Joining East Coast Carbon Market [1]

"As Trump rolls back federal climate policies, states are taking up the challenge to control greenhouse gas emissions themselves."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: InsideClimate News [7], 01/29/2018
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Most Western Voters Oppose Trump All-Energy Public Lands Agenda: Poll [8]

"New bipartisan polling finds widespread disapproval among Western voters of the Trump administration’s public land policies, including recent reductions to two Utah national monuments and the expansion of lands being made available for energy extraction."

Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Politics [4]
Natural Resources [10]
People & Population [11]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Salt Lake Tribune [12], 01/26/2018
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"Trump's Pick for NASA Chief Hits A Senate Roadblock" [13]

"The Republican congressman picked by President Trump to lead NASA is facing headwinds over his past comments on science, including a skeptical view on climate change."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: ClimateWire [16], 01/26/2018
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Trump USFS Downgrades Review Of Obama Mining Ban Near Minn. Wilderness [17]

"The Trump administration will curtail a detailed review of how cordoning off 230,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land in Minnesota from mining development will affect a neighboring wilderness area, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post."

Environmental Politics [4]
Forests [18]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [10]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [19]
Source: Washington Post [20], 01/26/2018
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"U.S. EPA Reverses Policy On 'Major Sources' Of Pollution" [21]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday it was withdrawing a provision of the Clean Air Act that requires a major source of pollution like a power plant to always be treated as a major source, even if it makes changes to reduce emissions."

Air [22]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [23]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Reuters [24], 01/26/2018
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Trump Mercer Megadonors Ramp Up Climate Change Denial Funding [25]

"The New York financiers’ donations to climate misinformation think tanks are finally attracting the scrutiny long reserved for the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [26]
Science [27]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: HuffPost [28], 01/26/2018
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"EPA: Barnstorming The States: 'Pruitt Does Not Want Open Press'" [29]

"In the days before U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's trip to North Dakota last August, spokesman Jahan Wilcox had a unique request for local talk radio host Scott Hennen."

Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [26]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Greenwire [30], 01/26/2018
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"Murky World Of 'Science' Journals A New Frontier For Climate Deniers" [31]

"Deniers have found a platform in emerging publications that publish without rigorous review".

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [26]
Science [27]
Public [5]
International [32]
Source: Guardian [33], 01/25/2018
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"Dumpster Fire" [34]

"Two decades after its scheduled closure, a zombie garbage incinerator divides a working-class town in Massachusetts."

Air [22]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [23]
Waste [36]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Grist [37], 01/25/2018
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"GOP Lawmakers Condemn Trump’s Tariff Decision" [38]

"Prominent Republicans warned President Trump on Wednesday against taking further trade actions that could harm American workers, even as top administration officials meeting in Davos, Switzerland, rose to the defense of the president’s “America First” rhetoric on the eve of his arrival."

Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Washington Post [39], 01/25/2018
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