"OPEC Pressures US Oil Firms Over High Production"
"OPEC is asking American oil producers to meet with members of the group and to play a role in cutting global oil production."
Source: The Hill, 10/11/2017
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"Supreme Court To Hear Florida-Georgia "Water Wars" Case"
"In an order issued Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear arguments in the long-running “tri-state water wars” case involving Florida and Georgia -- a case that has already run up astronomical legal bills for both states."
Source: Tampa Bay Times, 10/11/2017
"Clean Water Rule: WOTUS Battle Heads To The Supreme Court"
"The Supreme Court this week will wade into a legal dispute that could have big consequences for the Trump administration as it attempts to repeal and replace the Obama-era Clean Water Rule."
Source: Greenwire, 10/11/2017
"Trump Asks Congress For $4.9 Billion Loan To Puerto Rico"
"U.S. President Donald Trump asked Congress on Tuesday for a loan of $4.9 billion to help the cash-strapped Puerto Rican government pay urgent bills as the U.S. territory struggles to recover from Hurricane Maria, an administration official said."
Source: Reuters, 10/11/2017
"Coal Ash Dam Failures Would Impact Hundreds, Maps Show"
"Raleigh, N.C. — Maps released by Duke Energy late last week reveal for the first time that nearly 300 individual structures – homes, businesses and town infrastructure – could be in danger of flooding as a result of dam failures at the energy firm's coal ash pits scattered across the state."
Source: WRAL, 10/11/2017
"In New Rule, Trump EPA Allows Texas Coal Plants to Pollute Even More"
"In a gift to the struggling coal industry, a new air pollution rule finalized by the EPA will allow Texas coal plants to emit almost twice as much sulfur dioxide than an earlier proposal by the Obama administration. Aside from being a key component in forming haze, sulfur dioxide exacerbates respiratory illnesses such as asthma and contributes to acid rain."
Source: Texas Observer, 10/11/2017
"E.P.A. Says It Will Write a New Carbon Rule, but No One Can Say When"
"When Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, signed a blueprint Tuesday to eliminate a major Obama-era climate change regulation, the text said the agency would at some point consider a new rule to ratchet down greenhouse gas emissions. But those adept at reading between the lines of dense federal documents say the subtext reads more like: 'Don’t hold your breath.'"
Source: NY Times, 10/11/2017
"Wildfires Kill 17 In California Wine Country"
"Firefighters battling wildfires in California’s wine country face the prospect of new outbreaks when dry, windy conditions return on Wednesday to an area where at least 17 people have been killed and 2,000 homes and businesses destroyed in blazes."
Source: Reuters, 10/11/2017
Acidification Of Chesapeake Bay Threatens Crabs, Oysters, Other Life
"For ten days across recent summers, researchers aboard the University of Delaware research vessel Hugh R. Sharp collected water samples from the mouth of the Susquehanna River to Solomons Island in a first-of-its-kind investigation. They wanted to know when and where the waters of the Chesapeake Bay were turning most acidic."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 10/10/2017
Clean Water v. Farm Profits At Heart Of Debate on New Fertilizer Rules
"When Marla Waseka converted the gracious Franciscan nunnery northwest of St. Cloud to a boutique lakeside resort and retreat in 2008, the nitrate levels in her well were low. A few years later they were so high she had to warn her guests not to drink the water. And when authorities warned they’d shut her down if it weren’t fixed, she spent $12,000 to drill a deeper well for clean water."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 10/10/2017
