"Minnesota Electric Co-Ops Fail To Disclose Info Online"
"Finding out where Minnesota electric cooperatives get their power from requires more legwork than simply logging on to a website."
Source: AP, 11/27/2018
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Ocasio-Cortez Seeks Energy And Commerce Seat Despite Clash With Pallone
"Incoming Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) is seeking a seat on the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee even after she clashed with the next chairman of the panel over climate change."
Source: , 11/27/2018
Interior IG: Utah Monument Probe Finds No Evidence Of Zinke Wrongdoing
"An internal watchdog has cleared Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke of wrongdoing following a complaint that he redrew the boundaries of a national monument in Utah to benefit a state lawmaker and political ally."
Source: AP, 11/27/2018
"How Trump Is Ensuring That Greenhouse Gas Emissions Will Rise"
"President Trump had a clear message Monday when asked about the core conclusion of a scientific report issued by his own administration: that climate change will batter the nation’s economy. “I don’t believe it,” he said."
Source: NY Times, 11/27/2018
CWD Spreads On Deer And Elk Farms As Wisconsin Control Efforts Stumble
"Rapidly growing numbers of cases of chronic wasting disease are appearing on deer and elk farms and hunting ranches in Wisconsin at the same time the state has pulled back on rules and procedures designed to limit the spread of the fatal brain disease among its captive and wild deer."
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio, 11/26/2018
Pruitt’s EPA Rollbacks Stumbled in Court. Wheeler Is More Thorough.
"Before resigning as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency this year, Scott Pruitt delighted President Trump with his zeal for proclaiming sweeping regulatory rollbacks, even though he left behind a trail of courtroom setbacks."
Source: NY Times, 11/26/2018
"Leak At Newly-Expanded Delaware River Chemical Plant Jams Highways"
"The Croda chemical plant at Atlas Point on the Delaware River, which was recently expanded by its British owners to produce two tons of hazardous ethylene oxide per hour so the material didn't have to be shipped from Texas by rail, was shut down due to a leak on Sunday afternoon, stopping holiday traffic on I-295 over the Delaware Memorial Bridge and jamming drivers on the direct routes between New York and Washington, D.C."
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 11/26/2018
"California Wildfire That Killed At Least 85 People Fully Contained"
"The deadliest wildfire in California history that destroyed the mountain town of Paradise and killed at least 85 people was 100 percent contained on Sunday, according to state fire officials."
Source: Reuters, 11/26/2018
"The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard?"
"Coal, the fuel that powered the industrial age, has led the planet to the brink of catastrophic climate change."
Source: NY Times, 11/26/2018
"MD Oyster Population Down by Half Since 1999, Study Finds"
"Watermen overharvested oysters last winter in a little more than half of Maryland’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, according to the state’s first-ever stock assessment of the commercially and ecologically valuable shellfish. If those harvest rates continue, the assessment warned, the bivalve population in those areas could eventually be wiped out."
Source: Bay Journal, 11/26/2018
