"More than a month after the Environmental Protection Agency placed San Antonio in its “non-attainment” category because of persistently high levels of smog-producing ozone, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday asked a federal court to overturn the federal designation."
"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today [Wednesday] rolled out the department's proposed management design, which would shift most bureaus into 12 'unified regions.'"
" Detroit's city school district is shutting off drinking water to all of its schools after test results found elevated levels of lead or copper in 16 of 24 schools recently tested."
"As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000 people from their homes, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday."
"In 19 years of piloting his boat around Lake Superior, Jody Estain had never observed the water change as it has this summer. The lake has been unusually balmy and cloudy, with thick mats of algae blanketing the shoreline."
"Environmental groups argued in federal appeals court on Wednesday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to analyze the risks Bayer AG Monsanto’s dicamba-based weed killer posed to nearby crops before approving it in 2016."
"The Trump administration is reviewing a major Obama-era clean air regulation on the emission of mercury — a pollutant linked with damage to the brain, to the nervous system and to fetal development — with the intent of proposing a replacement rule, a spokeswoman for the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday."
"Twenty environmental and civil liberties groups are fighting back against lawsuits they believe are aimed at limiting free speech and silencing critics."
Press credentials are available for this International Wolf Center symposium in Minneapolis, which will have ~400 wolf biologists from across the world present. On the agenda are almost 100 sessions, including on red wolves; pending reintroduction on Isle Royale National Park; and the possibility of reintroducing wolves to Colorado.
"Puerto Rico's government raised its official Hurricane Maria death toll to 2,975 on Tuesday in the wake of a new estimate from researchers."
