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"EPA Head's Emails With Energy Companies To Be Released" [1]

"The Oklahoma attorney general's office says it has complied with a judge's order to surrender documents related to new Environmental Protection Agency leader Scott Pruitt's communications with energy companies."

Environmental Politics [2]
Journalism & Media [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: AP [6], 02/22/2017
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Pruitt to EPA Employees: No Need To Choose Between Jobs And Environment [7]

"In his first full work day as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt made clear Tuesday that he intends to step back from what he sees as the agency’s regulatory overreach during the Obama administration."

Environmental Politics [2]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Washington Post [8], 02/22/2017
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"Trump Administration Halts $674M Caltrain Improvement Grant" [9]

"Late Friday the Trump administration announced it's delaying grant money that would electrify the train line between San Francisco and San Jose."

Environmental Politics [2]
Transportation [10]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
California [11]
Source: KGO [12], 02/21/2017
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"Everglades Restoration Alliance Teeters As Fla. Plans Refuge Takeover" [13]

"LOXAHATCHEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Fla. — Florida water managers are preparing to evict the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this summer from a swath of Everglades that it's managed for 66 years."

Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [4]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: Greenwire [17], 02/21/2017
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Trump To Roll Back Obama Climate, Water Rules Through Executive Action [18]

"President Trump is preparing executive orders aimed at curtailing Obama-era policies on climate and water pollution, according to individuals briefed on the measures."

Climate Change [19]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Washington Post [21], 02/21/2017
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"EPA Questions Pruitt’s Link To Oil, Gas" [22]

"Scott Pruitt will take the helm at the Environmental Protection Agency this week facing questions about his relationship with fossil fuels companies and a workforce that, at least in part, seems skeptical about his plans for the agency."

Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [2]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Washington Times [25], 02/21/2017
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"EPA: Pruitt Wants 24/7 Bodyguards" [26]

"U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt — one of President Trump’s most controversial Cabinet-level picks — was expected to request an around-the-clock security detail from his agency, according to an internal agency email obtained by E&E News."

Environmental Politics [2]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Greenwire [27], 02/21/2017
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As Fight Flares Over Public Lands, Summoning Power of Past Bond [28]

Bobby Magill, in his most recent SEJ President's Report, recalls his time traversing federal wilderness areas that are now increasingly the subject of dispute. How are they to be used? Who is to hold them? Will these vast Western lands remain in the public domain? And what is the role of journalists in covering this story?

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Environmental Politics [2]
Forests [30]
Government [31]
Journalism & Media [3]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [32]
Wildlife [33]
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"Politics-Wary Scientists Wade into the Trump Fray at Boston Rally" [34]

"Hundreds of scientists put aside their habitual wariness toward political activity and rallied over the weekend in Boston’s Copley Square, with many saying the Trump administration has left them no choice."

Activism [35]
Climate Change [19]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [31]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Science [37]
Technology [38]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Scientific American [39], 02/20/2017
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"Border Wall Would Cleave Tribe, and Its Connection to Ancestral Land" [40]

"The phone calls started almost as soon as President Trump signed his executive order, making official his pledge to build a wall to separate the United States from Mexico."

Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [32]
People & Population [41]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [42]
Source: NY Times [43], 02/20/2017
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