"Resurrecting the Riverkeepers"
"North America hosts the richest variety of freshwater mussels in the world, and the epicenter for this biodiversity is in the southeastern United States."
Source: bioGraphic, 07/13/2017
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"Scientists Challenge Magazine Story About ‘Uninhabitable Earth’"
"The temptation to paint a dire picture of climate change, at a time when the Trump administration seems bent on questioning a widely accepted body of climate science and withdrawing from international agreements, is clear. But the picture still has to be plausible and accurate, a number of scientists argued this week in response to a lengthy article in New York Magazine."
Source: Washington Post, 07/13/2017
Official Who Nixed Everglades From UN Endangered List Gets Trump Job
"An Interior Department official who removed the Everglades from the United Nations’ endangered-sites list during the Bush administration is back."
Source: Miami Herald, 07/13/2017
"Idle Permit Total Tops 'Record High' Amid Streamlining Push"
"As the Bureau of Land Management's backlog of outstanding applications to drill on public lands shrinks, the number of tracts that have been approved for development but have gone unused is on the rise."
Source: EnergyWire, 07/13/2017
"Proposed EPA Permit Violates Clean Water Act, Group Alleges"
"An environmental group is accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of violating federal pollution laws by allowing oil and gas companies to dump an unlimited quantity of fracking chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: WWL-TV, 07/13/2017
Climate Change Dilemma for Coastal US: How Much Flooding Is Too Much?
"In the Florida Keys, residents are facing a question that may soon plague communities up and down the U.S. coastline: How much water are they willing to live with?"
Source: Bloomberg, 07/13/2017
Conservative Groups Urge Lawmakers To Gut Climate Programs In Military
"A coalition of 14 conservative groups urged U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday to support an amendment to the House of Representatives' annual defense bill that would prevent the Pentagon from implementing climate-change and green energy policies meant to save taxpayers money and protect the planet."
Source: Reuters, 07/13/2017
"Lobbying: K Street Work Expands For Pruitt's Pals"
"Business has been good for U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's friends from his political days in Oklahoma."
Source: Greenwire, 07/13/2017
"New Harvard Analysis Highlights How Media Failed the People of Flint"
"More than two years have passed since the water crisis in Flint, Michigan hit the national headlines. But the water crisis itself unfolded over three years ago in 2014—not 2015 when the rest of the country found out about it."
Source: Colorlines, 07/13/2017
Green Groups Sue U.S. EPA Over Smog Rule Delay
"Environmental and public health groups asked a U.S. Appeals Court in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reverse its decision to delay issuing a set of smog cleanup rules."
Source: Reuters, 07/13/2017
