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"EPA: Pruitt to Clear Obama's FOIAs While Trump Requests Linger" [1]

"U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is pushing to shrink a backlog of Freedom of Information Act requests left by the Obama administration."

Environmental Politics [2]
Journalism & Media [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Greenwire [7], 11/22/2017
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"The Monsanto Papers, Part 1 — Operation: Intoxication" [8]

"In order to save glyphosate, the Monsanto corporation has undertaken an effort to destroy the United Nations' cancer agency by any means possible."

Chemicals [9]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [2]
Journalism & Media [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Science [11]
Public [5]
International [12]
Source: EHN [13], 11/22/2017
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"Trump About-Face On Elephant Trophies Could Be Legal Misfire" [14]

"President Trump's abrupt U-turn on elephant trophy imports could undermine his own appointees, break standard practice and all but invite a legal challenge from his customary allies."

Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Wildlife [15]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: , 11/21/2017
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"API Disputes African-American Health Study, Cites Genetics" [16]

"The American Petroleum Institute, the nation's largest oil and gas trade organization, is dismissing the findings of a study on the risks facing African Americans who live near oil and gas facilities, saying that health disparities may be caused by other factors instead, including 'genetics.'"

Chemicals [9]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [2]
People & Population [18]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: InsideClimate News [19], 11/21/2017
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Advocates Say Net Metering Changes Could Slow Solar Growth In Ohio [20]

"Recent rule changes in Ohio would not fully reward solar energy and other renewable resources for the flexibility they bring to the market, say advocates."

Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [22]
Source: InsideClimate News [23], 11/21/2017
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"Senate Bill Would Cut EPA Funding By $150M" [24]

"The Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday introduced an Interior Department and environment spending bill that would cut nearly $150 million in funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) next year."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [25]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: The Hill [26], 11/21/2017
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"Nebraska Allows Keystone XL Pipeline, But Picks a Different Path" [27]

"LINCOLN, Neb. — The nearly decade-long battle over Keystone XL has come to symbolize much more than what the disputed pipeline would actually be: a subterranean tube, 36 inches in diameter, carrying crude oil from Canada to Nebraska."

Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NY Times [28], 11/21/2017
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FOIA Suit, Silence on Hog Farms & Sea-Level Rise, Plus Shield Laws [29]

A push for disclosure on hazardous air emissions from industrial hog farms, and reporting on how the coastal real estate industry works to block bad news about sea-level rise. That, plus the Bay Journal FOIAs the EPA over grant defunding, and a move in Congress towards a federal shield law, all in the latest WatchDog.

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WatchDog TipSheet [30]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [31]
Climate Change [32]
Disasters [33]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [25]
Journalism & Media [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
People & Population [18]
Planning & Growth [34]
Pollution [35]
Waste [36]
Water & Oceans [37]
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National (U.S.) [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [38]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [39]
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Public [5]
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Clean Power Plan Showdown Ahead, But Will It Matter? [40]

President Trump campaigned partly on the promise to abolish an Obama-era program to cut power plant CO2 emissions. But as TipSheet explains in the first in a series of special reports on key issues in the coming year, the program is tied up in complex court proceedings that may, in the end, be moot. Learn why.

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TipSheet [41]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [31]
Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [35]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [5]
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"Ethics: 15 Energy Lobbyists Hired Using Trump's Weakened Rule" [42]

"Troy Lyons spent 2016 lobbying for Hess Corp., a New York City-based oil company. Among the issues he was hired to work on: U.S. EPA's proposed rules limiting methane emissions from new oil and gas wells, which Hess opposed. Then, when 2017 rolled around, Lyons got a new job. He went to work for EPA."

Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: ClimateWire [43], 11/20/2017
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