"Trump’s Uranium Review Rattles Nuclear Utilities"
"The Trump administration’s hard look at uranium imports is already rattling nuclear utilities’ fuel-purchasing decisions."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/31/2018
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"Chlorpyrifos Restrictions Could Be In Store In California"
"The California Department of Pesticide Regulation should list chlorpyrifos as a toxic air contaminant (TAC), a state scientific panel has recommended following review of a comprehensive risk assessment of the widely used insecticide."
Source: Agri-Pulse, 07/31/2018
Hidden Studies, Decades-Old, Could Have Curbed PFAS Problem: Scientist
"Studies conducted in the late 1970s and early 1980s were kept under wraps by chemical companies as pollution spread across the US, according to an editorial published today."
Source: EHN, 07/31/2018
Michigan Declares Emergency In Kalamazoo County Over PFAS-Tainted Water
"Lt. Gov. Brian Calley on Sunday declared a state of emergency for Kalamazoo County [Mich.] after high levels of contaminants were found in the drinking water."
Source: Detroit News, 07/31/2018
"Proposed Changes To Endangered Species Act Would Impact National Parks"
"Rule changes the Trump administration is proposing for the Endangered Species Act, though not expected to directly impact species inside the National Park System, would have indirect impacts that could jeopardize plant and animal species and in the long-run could affect visitors' experiences, according to experts well versed in how the act functions."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 07/30/2018
"Russian Hackers Appear to Shift Focus to U.S. Power Grid"
"State-sponsored Russian hackers appear far more interested this year in demonstrating that they can disrupt the American electric utility grid than the midterm elections, according to United States intelligence officials and technology company executives."
Source: NY Times, 07/30/2018
"Owner of Iowa's Lone Nuclear Plant Plans To Shutter It By 2020"
"NextEra Energy, owner of the Duane Arnold Energy Center, says it will retire Iowa's lone nuclear plant in late 2020, five years earlier than anticipated."
Source: Des Moines Register, 07/30/2018
"This Summer’s Heat Waves Could Be the Strongest Climate Signal Yet"
"'In many places, people are preparing for the past or present climate. But this summer is the future.'"
"Earth's global warming fever spiked to deadly new highs across the Northern Hemisphere this summer, and we're feeling the results—extreme heat is now blamed for hundreds of deaths, droughts threaten food supplies, wildfires have raced through neighborhoods in the western United States, Greece and as far north as the Arctic Circle.
Source: InsideClimate News, 07/30/2018
"Senate Looms As Big Test For Changes To US Fishing Laws"
"Fishermen and environmentalists are at odds over a suite of changes to American fishing laws that was approved by the House of Representatives, and the proposal faces a new hurdle in the Senate."
Source: AP, 07/30/2018
"Dems Seek Probe Into EPA Head’s Meetings With Former Clients"
"A group of House Democrats is calling for the government’s ethics office to investigate acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Andrew Wheeler's meetings with former lobbying clients."
Source: The Hill, 07/30/2018
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