"U.N. Body Alarmed Over Mining Waste Disasters"
"Some of the worst mining disasters do not happen in mines. They take place at dams."
Source: NPR, 12/04/2017
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"Credit Rating Agency Issues Warning On Climate Change To Cities"
"One of the largest credit rating agencies in the country is warning U.S. cities and states to prepare for the effects of climate change or risk being downgraded."
Source: NPR, 12/04/2017
"EPA Passes On Rule Covering U.S. Hardrock Miners' Cleanup Costs"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday it would not act on a proposal to require hardrock mining companies to show they can afford to clean up their sites."
Source: Reuters, 12/04/2017
"GOP On Verge Of Opening Arctic Refuge To Drilling"
"Lawmakers are the closest they’ve been in decades to letting oil and natural gas companies drill in northeast Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)."
Source: The Hill, 12/04/2017
"Trump To Cut Bears Ears National Monument By 85 Percent"
"President Trump plans to shrink Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent and reduce Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument nearly by half, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post that show the Utah sites would be cut even more than administration officials previously signaled."
Source: Washington Post, 12/04/2017
"All That Glitter? It’s Not Good, Critics Say"
"An alarming news item began to make the rounds in November, just in time to ruin the holidays: Glitter is not good for the environment, and some people are trying to ban it."
Source: NY Times, 12/01/2017
"Environment Groups Want Pipeline Company’s Lawsuit Dismissed"
"Environmental groups being sued by the developer of the Dakota Access pipeline have asked a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit."
Source: AP, 12/01/2017
GOP Spending Bill Provisions Aims To Bar Suits On WOTUS Rule
"House and Senate Republicans have inserted language into spending bills aimed at blocking legal challenges to the Trump administration’s effort to repeal a 2015 water protection rule that gave two federal agencies broad leeway in regulating activities that could affect streams and tributaries."
Source: Washington Post, 12/01/2017
"Bombs in Your Backyard"
"The military spends more than a billion dollars a year to clean up sites its operations have contaminated with toxic waste and explosives. These sites exist in every state in the country. Some are located near schools, residential neighborhoods, rivers and lakes."
Source: ProPublica, 12/01/2017
Reviewing Salmon-Farm ‘Bloodwater’ Discharge Permits Not Enough: Critics
"Footage of bloody discharge being released into B.C.’s coastal waters from farmed-fish processing plants by photographer Tavish Campbell has made international headlines and prompted the promise of further investigation from both provincial and federal governments."
Source: DeSmog, 12/01/2017
