"Shutdown: As Funds Run Out, EPA Will Furlough 13,705 Employees"
"Set to run out of carryover funds tonight [Friday], EPA will soon close and send thousands of employees home without pay."
Source: Greenwire, 12/31/2018
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Trump’s Retreat on the Environment Is Affecting Communities Across U.S.
"In just two years, President Trump has unleashed a regulatory rollback, lobbied for and cheered on by industry, with little parallel in the past half-century. ... The trade-offs, while often out of public view, are real — frighteningly so, for some people — imperiling progress in cleaning up the air we breathe and the water we drink, and in some cases upending the very relationship with the environment around us."
Source: NY Times, 12/31/2018
Interior Proposes Rule To Make FOIA Requests Harder To Fulfill
"Trump administration officials took steps on Friday to crack down on transparency at one of the largest US federal agencies, proposing a slew of changes that could make it harder for the public and media to obtain records of agency dealings."
Source: Guardian, 12/31/2018
New EPA Plan Could Free Coal Plants to Release More Mercury Into the Air
"The Trump administration proposed on Friday major changes to the way the federal government calculates the benefits, in human health and safety, of restricting mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants."
Source: NY Times, 12/31/2018
"Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions"
"The real journey to the center of the Earth has begun, and scientists are discovering subsurface microbial beings that shake up what we think we know about life."
Source: NY Times, 12/24/2018
"Less Benzene In Air After Shutdown Of Tonawanda Coke"
" State environmental officials say air sampling shows there’s been a drop in the chemical benzene since the closure of the Tonawanda Coke plant in western New York."
Source: AP, 12/24/2018
"Taylor Energy Sues Contractor Chosen To Fix Its 14-Year-Old Oil Leak"
"A Belle Chasse marine contractor given the job of stopping a 14-year-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is defending itself against a lawsuit alleging it’s unqualified for the work and may cause more environmental damage."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 12/24/2018
"Green Infrastructure’ Legislation Headed to President Trump"
"Cities and states would get more credit from the EPA for installing natural stormwater runoff systems under legislation that’s been cleared for President Donald Trump’s signature."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 12/24/2018
"Flood Insurance Lapse Averted With Hours to Spare"
"The House passed a last-minute bill Dec. 21 to extend the National Flood Insurance Program through May."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 12/24/2018
Lamar Smith: A Ranch, An Oil Field, And A Career Colored By Skepticism
"Rep. Lamar Smith's cattle brand is shaped like the number 2, with a check mark in the top right corner. It's supposed to be burned in the right hip of an animal."
Source: ClimateWire, 12/24/2018
