"With the Nov. 6 election looming, a state panel on Thursday shelved Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposal to relax limits on lung-damaging pollution from some of the last coal-fired power plants in Illinois."
"A sharp increase in greenhouse gas emissions from the petrochemical industry — which includes plastic, fertilizer and pharmaceutical companies — threatens to erode climate benefits from reductions in other sectors, according to a report being issued Friday."
"Scott Pruitt's attorney was working last year to set up a fund to pay the then-EPA administrator's legal expenses, months before ethics allegations exploded into a national scandal."
"When former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt launched an effort to limit what kinds of scientific studies could be used to protect public health, he left out some key experts: the Environmental Protection Agency’s own Office of the Science Advisor, according to an email exchange obtained by The Washington Post."
Fact-checking belies Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh's claims about his judicial record on environmental cases.
The Society of Environmental Journalists congratulates SEJ member Ken Ward Jr. for receiving a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship — a $625,000, five-year, no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential. Ken is an investigative journalist with the Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia.
"Now that she can see the Hollywood sign from her front lawn, Mary D. Nichols isn’t about to let President Trump roll back California’s strict auto-emissions standards."
"Aleigha Sloan can't remember ever drinking a glass of water from the tap at her home. That is 'absolutely dangerous,' the 17-year-old says, wrinkling her nose and making a face at the thought."
"Donald Trump’s administration is racing against the clock to rescind or rewrite every major pro-environment policy enduring from Barack Obama’s presidency – but the government will probably not be able to usher those changes through the courts before the next presidential election."
"Commercial fishing will be banned across much of the Arctic under a new agreement signed on Wednesday in Greenland, closing down access to a vast area of sea that is newly opening up under climate change."
