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Oil Lobby Fends Off Candidates' Calls To Ban Fracking With Ad Campaign [1]

"The oil and gas industry is fighting back: It's throwing in big bucks to counter attacks from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren that it's contributing to climate change."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [8], 01/13/2020
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After Lawsuit, Trump DOE Publishes Efficiency Standards For Big Equipment [9]

"The Energy Department set new efficiency standards Friday for big equipment, such as commercial boilers and portable air conditioners, after trying to block them for nearly three years."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [12], 01/13/2020
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Critics Warn Trump's NEPA Rollback Could Hit Minorities, Poor Hardest [13]

"President Trump's proposed overhaul of a bedrock environmental law aims to streamline project reviews, but those changes are likely to hit minority communities and those with high poverty rates the hardest, experts warn."

Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [4]
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Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [15], 01/13/2020
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Arson Misinformation Undermines Link Between Oz Fires And Climate Change [16]

"Multiple Australian state police agencies have found limited evidence to suggest the major destructive wildfires in their states were ignited by arsonists, contradicting the international onslaught of misinformation suggesting otherwise."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [17]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [5]
Science [18]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Australia & Oceania [19]
Source: HuffPost [20], 01/10/2020
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Scientists, Tribes Team Up To Revive Purebred Bison Population [21]

"Purebred bison – direct descendants of the animals that blanketed North America before colonization – are scant, protected and short on genetic diversity."

Biodiversity [22]
Wildlife [23]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Toronto Globe and Mail [24], 01/10/2020
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Clear Warnings Needed: "Hair Dye Cancer Risk Stokes Fear In Black Women" [25]

"Priscilla Graves is a hairstylist with 15 years’ experience straightening and coloring black women’s hair. She has endured bouts of dizziness, nausea and difficulty breathing from applying potent chemical straighteners, and regularly deals with distraught clients suffering alopecia and painful blisters after using dyes and lotions specifically marketed to African Americans."

Chemicals [26]
Consumer [27]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [14]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Guardian [28], 01/10/2020
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"Sunrise Movement Endorses Bernie Sanders" [29]

"Sunrise Movement, the influential Green New Deal campaigners, endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president on Thursday, boosting the progressive’s credentials as the 2020 race’s leading candidate on climate change."

Activism [30]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: HuffPost [31], 01/10/2020
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Trump Water Rollback Leaves New Mexico Fearing Pollution, Health Risks [32]

"TAOS, N.M. — Twice a day, every day, Vicente Fernandez walks along the banks of the Rio Fernando, inspecting the river that has shaped his valley’s fortunes for generations."

Agriculture [33]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [35]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: LA Times [37], 01/10/2020
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"Pesticides: Report Slams EPA For Approving 'Worst Of The Worst'" [38]

"EPA continues to approve pesticides that have been banned in other countries or identified by its own scientists as possibly causing cancer, a group critical of farm chemicals said."

Agriculture [33]
Chemicals [26]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Greenwire [39], 01/10/2020
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"Trump Aims to Reel in Climate Reviews While Courts Say Otherwise" [40]

"The Trump administration’s plan to speed up project reviews for pipelines, mines, highways, and other infrastructure would scale back how agencies consider climate change in the process—running counter to a stack of legal precedent that’s been growing for years."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [41]
Laws & Regulations [11]
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National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [42], 01/10/2020
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