Trump Plans To Destroy Texas Wildlife Refuge for 1st Border Wall Segment
"If the levee wall is constructed, it will essentially destroy the refuge, a federal official told the Observer."
Source: Texas Observer, 07/18/2017
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"Renewable Energy Not a Threat to Grid, Draft of U.S. Study Finds"
"Wind and solar power don’t pose a significant threat to the reliability of the U.S. power grid, Energy Department staff members said in a draft report, contradicting statements by their leader Rick Perry."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/18/2017
EPA To Keep Standards for Nitrogen Oxides Air Pollution
"After a five-year review, U.S. EPA has proposed leaving unchanged its two primary air quality standards for nitrogen oxides."
Source: Greenwire, 07/18/2017
"In the Grand Canyon, Uranium Mining Threatens A Tribe's Survival"
"The Havasupai are attempting to fight back against the operation of a uranium mine that they say could contaminate their sole water source".
Source: Guardian, 07/17/2017
"Where Else Does the U.S. Have an Infrastructure Problem? Antarctica"
"McMURDO STATION, Antarctica — The American research station on the edge of this frozen continent may look like a mining camp in the wilderness, but it is actually one of the glories of American science."
Source: NY Times, 07/17/2017
"Natural Gas Building Boom Fuels Climate Worries, Enrages Landowners"
"They landed, one after another, in 2015: plans for nearly a dozen interstate pipelines to move natural gas beneath rivers, mountains and people's yards. Like spokes on a wheel, they'd spread from Appalachia to markets in every direction."
Source: NPR, 07/17/2017
"Toxic Taps"
"California’s five-year drought made worldwide headlines as wells went dry and thousands of people were left without water. But many of those whose taps still flow face an even more insidious threat. The state estimates that 1.5 million Californians rely on drinking water that has violated health standards."
Source: Water Deeply, 07/17/2017
"A Pass to Poison"
"How the state of Texas allows industrial facilities to repeatedly spew unauthorized air pollution — with few consequences"
Source: Texas Tribune, 07/17/2017
Trump Plan Would 'Reduce or Eliminate' Important Data Access: Alert
"A U.S. Geological Survey program coordinator has sent an alert to colleagues around the world, warning that the Trump administration's proposed 2018 budget cuts, if approved, will undermine important data-gathering programs and cooperative studies in areas including forests, volcanoes, flooding, wildfires, extreme precipitation and climate change."
Source: InsideClimate News, 07/17/2017
Mount Polley Disaster Brought Quick Government PR Response: Documents
"In the hours after the 2014 Mount Polley mine disaster, authorities were already concerned laws had been broken and the premier’s office was worried fallout from the tailing pond breach would “get in the way” of other planned mines, documents provided to The Tyee reveal."
Source: The Tyee, 07/17/2017
