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Trump EPA Illegally Dragging Its Feet On Limiting Methane Gas: Judge

"The Trump administration has illegally delayed rules limiting the discharge of climate-changing methane gas from landfills around the United States and must act on plans for California and several other states by September, a federal judge ruled Monday.

The EPA was to approve or disapprove the state plans by Sept. 30, 2017, and to prepare its own solution two months later for states without an approved plan.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 05/07/2019

"Fringe Demand Goes Mainstream: Stop Drilling And Mining"

"Democrats are embracing a once-fringe demand that could cut emissions at the scale of the Obama administration's biggest climate policies. A growing number of presidential candidates want to lock down the vast fossil fuel deposits sitting beneath federally owned lands and waters."

Source: ClimateWire, 05/07/2019

Bald Eagle Poisoning Deaths Continue In Area Of Maryland

"A once-common farm pesticide killed millions of birds before the U.S. government took steps to restrict its use in the 1990s and ban it in 2009. Since then, such poisonings have made up a small fraction of deaths among bald eagles — except in Maryland."

Source: Baltimore Sun, 05/06/2019

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