"Texas Is The Next Battleground For The Green New Deal"
"Sunrise Movement is taking the fight to Big Oil’s home turf, endorsing another insurgent Democrat and going all in on three House races in the Lone Star State."
Source: HuffPost, 02/17/2020
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"U.K. to Spend $1.6 Billion on World’s Best Climate Supercomputer"
"The U.K. said it will spend 1.2 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) on developing the most powerful weather and climate supercomputer in the world."
Source: Bloomberg, 02/17/2020
EPA Poised for Mercury Rule Rollback That Industry Doesn't Want
"For more than three years, the Trump administration has prided itself on working with industry to unshackle companies from burdensome environmental regulations. But as the Environmental Protection Agency prepares to finalize the latest in a long line of rollbacks, the nation’s power sector has sent a different message: Thanks, but no thanks."
Source: Washington Post, 02/17/2020
Gunasekara, Who Pushed Trump To Exit Paris Pact, Named EPA Staff Chief
"Mandy Gunasekara, who pressed for President Trump to exit the Paris climate agreement as the Environmental Protection Agency’s top air-policy adviser, is poised to return to the agency as its next chief of staff, according to two individuals briefed on the matter."
Source: Washington Post, 02/17/2020
"Floods Put Mississippi Capital In ‘Precarious Situation’"
"JACKSON, Miss. — With the waters in the Pearl River continuing to rise in and around Mississippi’s capital city and more rain on the way this week, the governor warned residents that it would be days before flood waters start to recede."
Source: AP, 02/17/2020
Vast Mesoamerican Reef Declines After Years Of Improvement: Study
"The condition of the world’s second-largest coral system, the Mesoamerican Reef stretching from Mexico to Central America, has taken a turn for the worse and faces further threats from climate change, according to a report by a group of scientists."
Source: Reuters, 02/14/2020
"Ohio Wants To Put Lake Erie On A New, Strict Pollution Diet"
"Ohio wants to put Lake Erie on a new, stricter pollution diet to fight back against the toxic algae blooms that have flourished for more than a decade, environmental regulators said Thursday."
Source: AP, 02/14/2020
"EPA: Agency Discloses Rise In CO2, And Undercuts A Talking Point"
"U.S. greenhouse gas emissions increased 3.1% between 2017 and 2018, according to figures published yesterday by EPA."
Source: ClimateWire, 02/14/2020
"Ex-Utility Exec, Hill Aide Tapped for EPA's No. 2 Job"
"President Trump plans to nominate a former utility executive and Hill aide to serve as EPA deputy administrator, the White House announced today."
Source: Greenwire, 02/14/2020
"South Sudan Ignores Reports On Oil Pollution, Birth Defects"
"The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals including mercury, manganese, and arsenic, according to four environmental reports obtained by The Associated Press."
Source: AP, 02/14/2020
