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Texas: "State Removes Oil Spill Photos From Public View" [1]

"AUSTIN, Texas — The state has removed aerial-surveillance photos taken during severe floods from a public website. The decision comes after the El Paso Times earlier this month published a story with dozens of such photos showing apparent oil spills in different river systems over the past few years."

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Source: El Paso Times [11], 05/30/2016
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"Trump Tells California 'There Is No Drought'" [12]

"Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told California voters Friday that he can solve their water crisis, declaring, 'There is no drought.'"

Climate Change [13]
Disasters [2]
Environmental Politics [4]
Science [14]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [16], 05/30/2016
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"Developer Rejects Trump’s Keystone Pipeline Proposal" [17]

"The company hoping to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline is rejecting Donald Trump’s proposed deal to approve its construction."

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National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [19], 05/30/2016
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"A Challenge to Donald Trump’s Energy Claims: Economic Reality" [20]

"In his pledge to aggressively expand American oil and gas production, and his framing of that push as a salvation for the nation’s economic and fiscal health, Donald J. Trump is following in the footsteps of decades of Republican politicians. But in a market where domestic oil production is already higher than it has been in 40 years, and natural gas production is at a historic high, those proposals have run up against a major problem: the global economy."

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Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
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National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NY Times [21], 05/30/2016
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"After 30 Years, Apalachicola Water War Still Rages" [22]

"In the U.S. Senate, Florida and Alabama are pressuring Georgia to join a water-sharing compact for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system. But it could be too late downstream for scores of families who earned their livelihoods from the dying Apalachicola River."

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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
Source: WFSU [25], 05/27/2016
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"Report Warns of Climate Change Disasters That Rival Hollywood’s" [26]

"Stonehenge eroding under the forces of extreme weather. The city of Venice slowly collapsing into its canals. The gradual flooding of the Statue of Liberty. Images like these, familiar from Hollywood climate-catastrophe thrillers, were evoked by a joint report, released on Thursday by Unesco, the United Nations Environment Program and the Union of Concerned Scientists, that detailed the threat climate change could pose to World Heritage sites on five continents."

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International [27]
Source: NY Times [28], 05/27/2016
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Exxon's Donations and Ties to AGU Larger Than Previously Recognized [29]

"Donations tied to Exxon have totaled more than $600,000 since 2001, and a former Exxon vice president sits on the AGU's board of directors."

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National (U.S.) [15]
Source: InsideClimate News [30], 05/27/2016
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"Donald Trump’s Energy Plan: More Fossil Fuels and Fewer Rules" [31]

"BISMARCK, N.D. — Donald J. Trump traveled Thursday to the heart of America’s oil and gas boom, where he called for more fossil fuel drilling and fewer environmental regulations while vowing to “cancel the Paris climate agreement,” the 2015 accord committing nearly every nation to taking action to curb climate change."

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Source: NY Times [32], 05/27/2016
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"The Two Words That Rewrote American Water Policy" [33]

"The strange tale of how a Supreme Court justice accidentally triggered the biggest new water rule in a decade."

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National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Politico [34], 05/26/2016
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"University of Massachusetts to Divest From Fossil-Fuel Holdings" [35]

"The University of Massachusetts said it will divest from direct fossil-fuel holdings in its endowment, without specifying the total amount of its investment."

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Source: Bloomberg [37], 05/26/2016
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