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"California vs. Trump ‘Will Be A Giant Case’ Over Air Rules"

"WASHINGTON -- California and like-minded states are girding for a legal battle with the Trump administration on whether those states have gone too far in controlling greenhouse gases from automobiles, a prospective case that legal scholars say — barring a last-minute settlement — is sure to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies are expected to announce, as soon as this week, a rollback of national fuel economy standards for vehicles. They could also revoke California’s ability to set its own, tougher, air pollution limits.

Source: McClatchy, 07/25/2018

"ESA Combatants: Touch Gloves, Come Out Swinging"

"The most concentrated and consequential Endangered Species Act fight in a generation starts tomorrow [July 25]."

Source: Greenwire, 07/25/2018

Monuments: Interior Wrote Proclamations Scuttling Ocean Sites — Emails

"Senior Interior Department officials prepared last fall to eliminate the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument — even as they had yet to agree on the public justifications for doing so, according to newly disclosed internal documents."

Source: Greenwire, 07/25/2018

"Russian Hackers Breached U.S. Electric-Utility Control Rooms, Feds Say"

"Hackers working for Russia claimed “hundreds of victims” last year in a giant and long-running campaign that put them inside the control rooms of U.S. electric utilities where they could have caused blackouts, federal officials said. They said the campaign likely is continuing."

Source: Wall St. Journal, 07/25/2018

‘This Was Preventable’: Football Heat Deaths and the Rising Temperature

"Most states rank poorly on heat safety for their high school football players. Too many teens have paid the price, and temperatures are only getting worse."

Source: InsideClimate News, 07/24/2018

"Group: Land Activist Murders Keep Rising, 2017 Deadliest Yet"

"Killings of land and environmental activists rose in 2017 as Mexico and the Philippines registered worrying increases in such murders and Brazil saw the most ever registered in a single country, a watchdog group said Tuesday."

Source: AP, 07/24/2018

"Lawmakers Remove GOP Endangered Species Policies From Defense Bill"

"Congress’s annual defense bill won’t include proposed polices that would restrict Endangered Species Act protections for certain animals."

Source: The Hill, 07/24/2018

"We're Drowning In Plastic Trash. Jenna Jambeck Wants To Save Us"

"When a huge floating gyre of plastic waste was discovered in the Pacific in the late 1980s, people were shocked. When whales died and washed ashore with stomachs full of plastic, people were horrified. ... Though some of it came from ships, most, presumably, was from land. But how much was coming from where?"

Source: NPR, 07/24/2018

"House To Extend Broke Flood Insurance Program Before Leaving Town"

"The House is expected next week to pass legislation to extend the nation’s troubled flood insurance program until the end of of November, after lawmakers failed once again to reach a deal on reforming the program."

Source: Washington Examiner, 07/24/2018

"The $3 Billion Plan to Turn Hoover Dam Into a Giant Battery"

"Hoover Dam helped transform the American West, harnessing the force of the Colorado River — along with millions of cubic feet of concrete and tens of millions of pounds of steel ... . Now it is the focus of a distinctly 21st-century challenge: turning the dam into a vast reservoir of excess electricity, fed by the solar farms and wind turbines that represent the power sources of the future."

Source: NY Times, 07/24/2018

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