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Banned From Banking Industry for Life, Pruitt Pal Finds Home at EPA [1]

"The Environmental Protection Agency has tasked a banker who was banned from the banking industry for life with oversight of the nation’s Superfund program."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: The Intercept [10], 12/29/2017
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"AP Finds Climate Change Risk For 327 Toxic Superfund Sites" [11]

"Anthony Stansbury propped his rusty bike against a live oak tree and cast his fishing line into the rushing waters of Florida’s Anclote River. When he bought a house down the street last year, Stansbury says he wasn’t told that his slice of paradise had a hidden problem."

Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [12]
Disasters [13]
Environmental Health [3]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: AP [14], 12/22/2017
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EPA Officials, Disheartened by Agency’s Direction, Are Leaving in Droves [15]

"More than 700 people have left the Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office, a wave of departures that puts the administration nearly a quarter of the way toward its goal of shrinking the agency to levels last seen during the Reagan administration."

Environmental Health [3]
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Government [5]
People & Population [16]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NY Times [17], 12/22/2017
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"Court Asks EPA When It Will Move Forward With Smog Rule Compliance" [18]

"A federal court wants the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report, with “precision and specificity,” how it plans to take a key step in implementing a 2015 smog pollution rule."

Air [19]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: The Hill [20], 12/21/2017
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"Politics: Here's How Science Fared In The First Year Of Trump" [21]

"The Trump administration has rolled back Obama-era climate policies at a brisk pace in the first year of Donald Trump's presidency. But it has been equally aggressive in minimizing the climate science that justified those regulations in the first place."

Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [22]
Science [23]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: ClimateWire [24], 12/21/2017
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Trump EPA Pick For Chicago Office Cut Enforcement, Climate Info In WI [25]

"The Trump administration's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency's Midwest office is a former Wisconsin state official who rolled back enforcement of anti-pollution laws, reduced funding for scientific research and scrubbed references to human-caused climate change from government websites."

Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [26]
Source: Chicago Tribune [27], 12/21/2017
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"Private No More: Montana City Takes Control of Its Water System" [28]

"Missoula was the only city in Montana that had a privately owned water system. Now, after decades of effort, it has succeeded in taking back the utility. City leaders explain how it happened."

Economy & Business [29]
Environmental Health [3]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [8]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [31]
Source: Water Deeply [32], 12/20/2017
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EPA Orders 6 Companies To Continue $26 Million Indiana Lead Cleanup [33]

"EAST CHICAGO — The U.S Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it issued two unilateral administrative orders to six companies to clean up soil and indoor dust at the USS Lead Superfund site."

Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [26]
Source: Northwest Indiana Times [34], 12/20/2017
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Trump WH Rolls Back EPA Plan to Restrict Dangerous Household Chemicals [35]

"The Trump administration has quietly delayed action on dangerous solvents that the Environmental Protection Agency had previously planned to ban."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: The Intercept [36], 12/20/2017
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"EPA Says Superfund Task Force Left Behind Little Paper Trail" [37]

"The Environmental Protection Agency says an internal task force appointed to revamp how the nation’s most polluted sites are cleaned up generated no record of its deliberations."

Environmental Health [3]
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Government [5]
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Source: AP [38], 12/20/2017
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