"Looks a Lot Like Climate Change" [1]
"As global temperatures rise and the oceans warm, what used to be 500-year floods are now happening more frequently."
"As global temperatures rise and the oceans warm, what used to be 500-year floods are now happening more frequently."
"Investors with more than $15 trillion of assets under management urged governments led by the United States to implement the Paris climate accord to fight climate change despite U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to pull out."
"The Environmental Protection Agency has sidelined a website aimed at teaching schoolchildren about climate change, a public watchdog group has determined, as part of the agency’s efforts to align online content with the new administration’s values."
"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has chosen to replace half of the members on one of its key scientific review boards, the first step in a broader effort by Republicans to change the way the agency evaluates the scientific basis for its regulations."
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"Ivanka Trump is planning to meet next week with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt about the Paris climate change agreement."
"As the Environmental Protection Agency proceeds with a large-scale update of its website, its climate change site has been taken down, pending review. But several climate scientists contacted by The Post argue that this is unnecessary."
"One of the coal industry's biggest boosters has joined U.S. EPA. Christian Palich, who started this week as a deputy associate administrator in the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, is the former president of the Ohio Coal Association."
"Potentially harmful human-caused noise pollution affects nearly two-thirds of all protected areas in the United States, according to a report released on Thursday."
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[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/big-investors-urge-trump-stick-paris-climate-accord
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business
[11] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics
[12] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-investors-idUSKBN18315V
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[14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media
[15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science
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[18] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/07/epa-dismisses-half-of-its-scientific-advisers-on-key-board-citing-clean-break-with-obama-administration/?utm_term=.28e8c6a1c610
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[21] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/wildfire-season-comes-earlier-bringing-broader-stories
[22] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/tipsheet
[23] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/forests
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[29] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/331963-ivanka-trump-to-meet-with-epa-head-on-paris-climate-pact
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[31] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/04/the-epa-is-reviewing-its-climate-change-website-these-scientists-say-it-was-already-accurate/?utm_term=.9b2749645a0f
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[35] https://www.sej.org/headlines/human-noise-pollution-pervasive-us-protected-areas
[36] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land
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