"NASA Ranks 2017 as the Second-Warmest Year on Record"
"NASA researchers said that 2017 was the second-warmest year on record, behind 2016 but topping 2014 and 2015."
Source: NY Times, 01/19/2018
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Trump DOI Weighs Keeping Natl Parks Open Even If Government Shuts Down
"As a Friday deadline for a government shutdown approached, the Trump administration began setting plans in motion to halt scores of federal functions — even as it scrambled to keep hundreds of national parks and monuments open to the public to minimize anger over the disruption of services."
Source: Washington Post, 01/19/2018
Trump Administration Deserts Science Advisory Boards Across Agencies"
"While top-level science positions remain vacant, scientific advisory panels have been quietly diminished, disbanded or stacked with industry scientists."
Source: InsideClimate News, 01/19/2018
"In the Arctic, More Rain May Mean Fewer Musk Oxen"
"It’s hard to miss a musk ox: It looks like a buffalo decked out in a hairy fur coat. And yet this easy-to-spot giant, which lives on tundras from Siberia to Greenland, is still surprisingly mysterious."
Source: NY Times, 01/18/2018
"South Dakota Running Out Of Money For Pollution Control"
"A lack of federal funding could force the state of South Dakota to stop monitoring water for lead and copper, cease regulating wastewater and otherwise pare back pollution control programs."
Source: Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 01/18/2018
"Waste Dumps A Burden For Minority Neighborhoods"
"Would you want an industrial waste dump near your house? Probably not. But across the country, environmental hazards like waste dumps tend to be located near minority communities."
Source: WOSU, 01/18/2018
"Leaky Sewers May Foster Antibiotic Resistance In Urban Streams"
"Microbial activity in a Baltimore stream is unaffected by exposure to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, evidence that sewage contamination of urban waterways may be fomenting pockets of antibiotic resistance, researchers reported last week in the journal Ecosphere."
Source: Anthropocene, 01/18/2018
Heartland Protected Former Exec Charged With Stalking: Ex-Staffers
"A former Heartland Institute director faced charges for violating a female subordinate’s restraining order. An official at the think tank came to his defense."
Source: HuffPost, 01/18/2018
Energy Dept. Fires Photographer for Leaking Shot of Perry-Murray Hug
"As a photographer for the Department of Energy, Simon Edelman regularly attended meetings with Secretary Rick Perry and snapped pictures for official purposes."
Source: NY Times, 01/18/2018
Fighting Offshore Drilling, McMaster Appeals To His ‘Good Friend’ Trump
"S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster is trying, again, to protect South Carolina from falling into the offshore drilling cross hairs of his “good friend” and political ally, President Donald Trump."
Source: Columbia State, 01/18/2018
