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"Government Loophole Gave Oil Companies $18 Billion Windfall"

"The United States government has lost billions of dollars of oil and gas revenue to fossil-fuel companies because of a loophole in a decades-old law, a federal watchdog agency said Thursday, offering the first detailed accounting of the consequences of a misstep by lawmakers that is expected to continue costing taxpayers for decades to come."

Source: NY Times, 10/25/2019

"Wildfires Threaten California"

"Firefighters in Los Angeles, Sonoma and San Bernardino counties are battling fires that have spread across the region."

Source: CNN, 10/25/2019

Pendley: BLM Needs $5B, 15 Years To Cull Wild Horse Herds

"While the Bureau of Land Management is adopting more wild horses and burros than ever, BLM acting chief William Perry Pendley says it will take many years and billions of dollars to reduce growing herds on federal rangelands to sustainable levels."

Source: E&E News PM, 10/24/2019

"PolyMet Opponents Ask Appeals Court To Overturn Mine Permits"

"Opponents of the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine urged the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Wednesday to cancel two of the project’s most important permits and order further proceedings to determine whether the mine’s environmental and financial safeguards are adequate."

Source: AP, 10/24/2019

"How to Halt Global Warming for $300 Billion"

"$300 billion. That’s the money needed to stop the rise in greenhouse gases and buy up to 20 years of time to fix global warming, according to United Nations climate scientists. ... The sum is not to fund green technologies or finance a moonshot solution to emissions, but to use simple, age-old practices to lock millions of tons of carbon back into an overlooked and over-exploited resource: the soil."

Source: Bloomberg, 10/24/2019

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