"Dems Ask For Longer Comment Period On Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan"
"A group of Senate Democrats is asking the Trump administration to extend the comment period for its controversial offshore drilling plan."
Source: The Hill, 03/07/2018
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"U.S. Energy Storage Market To Nearly Triple This Year: Report"
"U.S. deployments of energy storage systems will nearly triple this year thanks to sharply lower costs and state policies that support the case for installing batteries in homes, businesses and along the power grid."
Source: Reuters, 03/07/2018
"White House Turns To Congress For Ideas On Infrastructure Funding"
"The White House has proposed to spend $200 billion more in infrastructure but remains unsettled on how to pay for the investment, despite President Trump’s hints of an increase in the federal gas tax, his transportation chief said Tuesday."
Source: Washington Post, 03/07/2018
GAO Probes EPA Political Appointees’ Roles In Picking Advisory Committee
"Congress’s watchdog agency is looking into the role that political appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) played in picking new scientists and other agency advisory committee members."
Source: The Hill, 03/07/2018
After Decades Of Pollution, Louisiana Town Rebels Against Chemical Giant
"Robert Taylor isn't sure why he's alive. 'My mother succumbed to bone cancer. My brother had lung cancer,' he ticks them off on his fingers. 'My sister, I think it was cervical cancer. My nephew lung cancer.' A favorite cousin. That cousin's son. Both neighbors on one side, one neighbor on the other. 'And here I am.'"
Source: NPR, 03/07/2018
Pruitt Bug-Sweep Contractor In Business With Top EPA Security Official
"Two senior Senate Democrats asked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt on Tuesday to provide details about how a business associate of the head of his security detail got a security contract with the agency."
Source: Washington Post, 03/07/2018
Sun Doesn’t Shine at Trump Environmental Agencies
There’s little cause to celebrate upcoming Sunshine Week for those who cover Trump administration environmental agencies. The latest WatchDog catalogues how the EPA has adopted a secretive approach and displays frequent hostility to the news media, including with a troubling series of attacks on individual journalists.
Chesapeake’s ‘Secret Garden’ Thriving Again, But Trump Could End That
"The Chesapeake Bay restoration plan is fueling the most robust resurgence of underwater grasses and submerged aquatic vegetation in the world, according to a new study."
Source: Washington Post, 03/06/2018
"Trump Administration Reverses Promise To Ban Elephant Hunt Trophies"
"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has quietly begun allowing more trophy hunting of African elephants, despite President Donald Trump’s pledge last year to uphold a ban on importing parts of animals killed by big-game hunters."
Source: HuffPost, 03/06/2018
Environmental Racism: EPA Rejects Alabama Town's Claim On Toxic Landfill
"The US Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed a civil rights case brought by residents of a small, overwhelmingly African American town in Alabama who have spent much of the past decade battling a toxic landfill they blame for causing a myriad of physical and mental illnesses."
Source: Guardian, 03/06/2018
