"Logging and pipeline companies are using a new legal tactic to seek damages from Greenpeace and other groups. The long-shot cases are having a chilling effect."
"The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general is expanding an inquiry into Administrator Scott Pruitt’s frequent taxpayer-funded travel, the watchdog office said Friday."
Here you'll find multimedia coverage of #SEJ2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hosted by the University of Pittsburgh/Swanson School of Engineering.
Reporters looking to cover local safe drinking water stories can start smartly by looking at federal and state funding. That's the advice of this week's TipSheet, which simplifies your research with a 50-state directory of Safe Drinking Water Revolving Fund programs. Get your state info here.
Paul H. MacClennan, an award-winning Buffalo News environmental writer who did some of the earliest and strongest reporting on the Love Canal story in the late 1970s, working it for years as it became a huge national issue — and much, much more — died October 2, 2017.
"It took extreme measures to save the zoo’s last survivors from one of the world’s most dangerous war zones."
"Federal regulators urged manufacturers [last] Thursday to stop using hazardous flame retardants that are known to cause health problems."
"While Flint battles a water crisis, just two hours away the beverage giant pumps almost 100,000 times what an average Michigan resident uses into plastic bottles".
"Recently introduced legislation would create a 30% investment tax credit for the first 3 GW of offshore wind projects deployed in the U.S."
"A federal agency faces a deadline this week to decide whether the iconic Pacific walrus will join the polar bear on the threatened species list."
