"EPA: Meet The New Second In Command"
"A former Arizona state official brought to EPA by Scott Pruitt to streamline agency operations got a promotion yesterday in the wake of the embattled administrator's departure."
Source: Greenwire, 07/13/2018
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Racing To Save Florida’s Coral From Climate, Scientists Help Evolution
"In a hurricane-proof lab miles down the Florida Keys, scientists coddle, the way a parent might, tiny pieces of coral from the moment they are spawned until they are just hearty enough to be separated into specimens equipped to survive in the wild."
Source: LA Times, 07/12/2018
"Fishermen Disregard New Bedford Harbor’s Lingering Toxic Past"
"Officials keep dredging up PCBs and posting signs at New Bedford Harbor—but studies suggest anglers are eating too much of their contaminated catch."
Source: EHN, 07/12/2018
"The World’s Worst Industrial Disaster Is Still Unfolding"
"In Bhopal, residents who survived the massive gas leak and those who arrived later continue to deal with the consequences."
Source: Atlantic, 07/12/2018
"EPA Scraps Detailed Plan To Force Us Refiners To Blend More Biofuels"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ditched a detailed plan that would have forced refiners to blend more biofuels into their gasoline and diesel in 2019 to compensate for volumes likely to be exempted under the agency’s small refinery hardship waiver program, according to newly released EPA documents."
Source: Reuters, 07/12/2018
He Sues to Discredit Climate Scientists. Now He’s Being Sued by His Allies
"David Schnare’s conservative legal group seeks to expose science fraud. But it appears to be imploding amid allegations of financial mismanagement, attempted extortion and faked documents."
Source: NY Times, 07/12/2018
"Air Pollution: In About-Face, Utilities Urge EPA To Keep Mercury Rule"
"The electric power industry, which waged an epic legal battle against EPA's air toxics standards earlier this decade, now wants the regulations kept largely intact and is urging the agency to complete a required follow-up review by a 2020 deadline."
Source: Greenwire, 07/12/2018
"US Judge Allows Lawsuits Over Monsanto's Roundup To Proceed To Trial"
"Hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto Co by cancer survivors or families of those who died can proceed to trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, finding there was sufficient evidence for a jury to hear the cases that blame the company’s glyphosate-containing weed-killer for the disease."
Source: Reuters, 07/12/2018
"House Republicans Vote To Gut Lauded Law That Saved America’s Fisheries"
"House Republicans on Wednesday voted to weaken a much-praised 1976 law that helped revive the commercial fishing industry in the United States and bring its fisheries back from the brink of collapse."
Source: HuffPost, 07/12/2018
"EPA: Judge Rejects Suit To Release Calendars But Urges Change"
"A federal judge is suggesting that EPA provide speedier public access to the agency chief's calendar, even if the type of access requested is not compelled by the Freedom of Information Act."
Source: Greenwire, 07/12/2018
