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"US Petroleum Reserve Lease Sale In Alaska Draws Just 7 Bids" [1]

"President Donald Trump’s efforts to make the United States 'energy dominant' with help from Alaska got off to modest results Wednesday."

Economy & Business [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Alaska and Hawaii [7]
Source: AP [8], 12/12/2017
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"Mining: Trump's Chosen Regulator An Unabashed Coal Booster" [9]

"The man President Trump picked to regulate coal believes that mining is simply 'accelerated erosion.'"

Economy & Business [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Pollution [12]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Greenwire [13], 12/12/2017
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"World Leaders, High Security At Paris Climate Summit" [14]

"More than 50 world leaders are joining bankers, energy magnates and others Tuesday in Paris for a summit that President Emmanuel Macron hopes will give new momentum to the fight against global warming — despite U.S. President Donald Trump's rejection of the Paris climate accord."

Climate Change [15]
Economy & Business [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Science [16]
Public [5]
International [17]
Source: AP [18], 12/12/2017
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EPA Lists 21 Toxic Superfund Sites That Need Immediate Cleanup [19]

"The Environmental Protection Agency released a list of Superfund sites around the country Friday that it said regulators will target 'for immediate and intense attention.'"

Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Washington Post [21], 12/11/2017
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Trump CPSC Scuttles Rule To Save People From Dying of Carbon Monoxide [22]

"It took 16 years and more than 1,000 deaths for the Consumer Products Safety Commission to crack down on deadly portable generators. Trump’s appointees could undo that in a matter of months."

Consumer [23]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: ProPublica [25], 12/11/2017
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"The Environmental Scandal in Scott Pruitt’s Backyard" [26]

"It’s one of the dirtiest places in America. Former residents of Tar Creek, Oklahoma, want to know why Trump’s EPA chief didn’t prosecute allegations of wrongdoing during a federal buyout program."

Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Waste [27]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Politico [28], 12/11/2017
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Uranium Firm Urged Trump Officials To Shrink Bears Ears Monument [29]

"A uranium company launched a concerted lobbying campaign to scale back Bears Ears National Monument, saying such action would give it easier access to the area’s uranium deposits and help it operate a nearby processing mill, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post."

Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [30]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Washington Post [31], 12/11/2017
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Trump EPA Slowed Actions Against Polluters, Put Limits on Enforcement [32]

"EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — The highway billboard at the entrance to town still displays a giant campaign photograph of President Trump, who handily won the election across industrial Ohio. But a revolt is brewing here in East Liverpool over Mr. Trump’s move to slow down the federal government’s policing of air and water pollution."

Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NY Times [33], 12/11/2017
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"Tax Policy: Energy Pressures Mount On Conferees" [34]

"House and Senate tax conferees are facing renewed pressure to fix provisions in the Senate bill that they say would harm clean energy and fossil fuel development alike."

Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: E&E Daily [35], 12/11/2017
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"Air Pollution: Pruitt Backs Off Enforcement Of Power Plant Program" [36]

"U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is instructing agency officials to effectively drop enforcement of one key facet of the New Source Review program, in what could be a prelude to broad changes in the handling of air permits for both new plants and expansions of existing facilities."

Air [37]
Climate Change [15]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Greenwire [38], 12/11/2017
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