"Politics: Ban Fracking? Good Luck With That, Mr. or Ms. President"
"The Democratic presidential candidates who promise to ban fracking are keeping a secret: The president can't do that."
Source: EnergyWire, 12/09/2019
Search results
"EPA Air Office Appointee Fought Climate, Emission Rules"
"EPA has hired another political appointee in its air regulatory office who has a long history of suing the agency."
Source: Greenwire, 12/09/2019
"House: Pelosi Expects Major Climate Bill Before The 2020 Election"
"The House is poised to take up major climate change legislation before next year's elections, once the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis submits its policy recommendations, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters this morning [Friday]."
Source: Greenwire, 12/09/2019
"Alaska Cod Fishery Closes And Industry Braces For Ripple Effect"
"In an unprecedented response to historically low numbers of Pacific cod, the federal cod fishery in the Gulf of Alaska is closing for the 2020 season."
Source: NPR, 12/09/2019
"PG&E Announces $13.5 Billion Deal to Resolve Wildfire Claims"
"PG&E has reached a $13.5 billion deal to settle claims stemming from recent catastrophic fires blamed on its equipment, marking a key milestone in the utility's plan to exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy."
Source: KQED, 12/09/2019
"Nature's 'Brita Filter' Is Dying and Nobody Knows Why"
"On 'good' bad days, the shells lay open at the bottom of the river, shimmering in the refracted sunlight. Their insides, pearl white and picked clean of flesh, flicker against the dark riverbed like a beacon, alerting the world above to a problem below."
Source: NPR, 12/06/2019
"Huge Waves And Disease Turn Marshall Islands Into ‘A War Zone,’"
"The level of alarm is already high in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, as the Pacific island nation struggles with rising sea levels and the after-effects of decades of U.S. nuclear testing on its atolls."
Source: LA Times, 12/06/2019
2nd Evacuation Order Lifted In Tex. City Hit By Blast, Chemical Fire
"Authorities on Thursday lifted a second evacuation order in a week for thousands of people in a Texas city as U.S. safety officials began examining what caused the latest in a series of chemical plant fires in the state."
Source: Reuters, 12/06/2019
"Rate Of New Endangered Species Listings Declines Under Trump"
"The rate of listing new endangered and threatened species has slowed under the Trump administration, a trend that highlights an administrative push to shrink the number of animals ultimately placed on the endangered species list."
Source: The Hill, 12/06/2019
"Chemicals: Negotiators Reach Agreement on PFAS Legislation"
"Lawmakers have reached a deal on federal cleanup standards for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in an annual defense authorization, sources told E&E News."
Source: E&E Daily, 12/06/2019
