"The days of plastic straws are drawing shorter. Marriott International on Wednesday became the latest big company to announce it will stop using plastic straws, saying it would remove them from its more than 6,500 properties by next July."
"Green groups are suing the Trump administration over its decision to expand drilling in the Gulf of Mexico."
"The Interior Department's Inspector General (IG) is investigating a real estate deal involving Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the chairman of a leading oil services company, the IG office confirmed to the Hill Wednesday."
"Scott Pruitt got a reputation for stonewalling the press, but his successor is taking a new approach."
"A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that would have lifted strict limits on the number of remanufactured heavy duty vehicles known as “glider trucks” that could be sold."
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The Society of Environmental Journalists and 10 other journalism groups have written Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (pictured, left) urging him not to interpose political appointees between reporters and the scientists they need to interview. Text here.
"Fifteen years after the last Concorde flew, a new fleet of up to 2,000 supersonic business jets is in the works to ferry wealthy travelers around the world. The planes are expected to hit the runway in the next decade, but the climate change alarms are already going off."
"A deadly bat disease has been confirmed in South Dakota for the first time."
