"Today's Floods Occur Along 'A Very Different' Mississippi"
"The swollen, churning, unrelenting river that's flooding towns from Minnesota to Louisiana this month is not Mark Twain's Mississippi River."
Source: ClimateWire, 05/13/2019
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Appropriations: 5 Questions About The Interior-EPA, Energy-Water Bills
"Proposals to reorder the Trump administration's energy and environmental priorities will come this week as the House unveils its fiscal 2020 spending bills for EPA and the Energy and Interior departments."
Source: E&E Daily, 05/13/2019
"3M, DuPont Refuse to Pay for New Jersey Chemical Cleanup"
"Chemours Co., 3M Co. and DuPont are taking a stand against what one company called an “unprecedented” New Jersey order, saying they won’t pay for a statewide investigation of fluorinated chemical contamination."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/13/2019
Uber And Lyft Caused Major Traffic Uptick In San Francisco, Study Says
"Do ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft make a city's traffic worse or better? In San Francisco at least, the answer is decidedly worse, according to a newly published study in the journal Science Advances."
Source: NPR, 05/13/2019
Florida: "Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Halt Plastic Straw Bans"
"Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has vetoed a bill that would have prevented Florida’s local governments from banning plastic straws."
Source: AP, 05/13/2019
"New York Is Killing Off Its Last Coal-Fired Power Plants"
"New York has adopted a rule to eventually kill off its last two coal-fired power plants."
Source: Bloomberg, 05/13/2019
"Fifty Years After, A Daunting Cleanup of Vietnam’s Toxic Legacy"
"From 1962 to 1971, the American military sprayed vast areas of Vietnam with Agent Orange, leaving dioxin contamination that has severely affected the health of three generations of Vietnamese. Now, the U.S. and Vietnamese governments have joined together in a massive cleanup project."
Source: YaleE360, 05/13/2019
"Biden’s 2020 Rivals Attack Him From the Left on Climate Change"
"Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 2020 rivals and a group of progressive environmental organizations are attacking him as being weak on climate change, a sign of the central role global warming is shaping up to play as an issue in the Democratic primary."
Source: NY Times, 05/13/2019
"Landmark UN Plastic Waste Pact Gets Approved But Not By US"
"Nearly every country in the world has agreed upon a legally binding framework to reduce the pollution from plastic waste except for the United States, U.N. environmental officials say."
Source: AP, 05/13/2019
SEJ Joins RCFP Amicus Brief — Frasier v. Evans
May 6, 2019 — SEJ joined with 38 other journalism groups in filing an amicus brief supporting plaintiff Levi Frasier in Frasier v. Evans. Frasier brought the suit alleging First and Fourth Amendment claims against five Denver police officers who detained, questioned and threatened him with arrest after he filmed them on his tablet arresting and beating someone on a public street.
