"EPA is the harsh teacher, and the Transportation Department is the struggling student. That's the dynamic at play in regulatory comments submitted this week on the Trump administration's proposal to weaken Obama-era clean car rules."
"Chanelle Mattocks remembers everything about that night in 2014, when lead poisoned her son."
"The embattled Keystone XL oil pipeline faces yet another delay after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to conduct a new environmental review of the project."
"Last week’s huge jury award against Monsanto Co. over its popular weed killers Roundup and Ranger Pro could boost litigation from others claiming their use of the products harmed them."
"For the nation’s journalists, this has been a summer of unease and unrest. On live television, a caller to C-Span threatened “to shoot” a pair of CNN journalists, Don Lemon and Brian Stelter, for their political commentary. In Tampa, Fla., rallygoers hurled vitriol at reporters covering a speech by President Trump, who later tweeted his approval. Mr. Trump added a new adjective to his nickname for the media — “the fake, fake, disgusting news” — and his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, declined to disavow the phrase “enemy of the people.”
"The Obama-era Clean Water Rule became the law in 26 states [Thursday] as a federal judge in South Carolina issued a nationwide injunction on the Trump administration's delay of the regulation that defines what wetlands and waterways get federal protection."
"When Star Ames was a child there was a flood. The streets were like rivers and the houses like islands. It was 1960 and the village of Odanah, Wis. was up to its neck."
"As drillers compete for oil and natural gas, more fluids are going into and out of each fracking well. Researchers warn it’s headed for a tipping point."
"MISSOULA, Mont. — In a large metal warehouse, Mark Finney opens a tall, clear glass tower and pours alcohol into a tray at the bottom and lights it. When he closes the door, an open vent at the bottom sucks in air and suddenly fire spirals upward, a narrow column of flame 12 feet tall."
"WHITESBURG, Kentucky — Buddy Sexton opened a community meeting about the financial troubles of local volunteer fire departments with his head bowed: 'Let people understand what a need we have in this county, in the mighty name of Jesus, we pray.'"
