"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
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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
"EPA: Pruitt's Political Deputies Accumulate Power"
"While U.S. EPA waits on a legion of nominees to emerge from the Trump White House, Administrator Scott Pruitt has sought to fill the void by spreading political deputies across his agency."
Source: Greenwire, 07/17/2017
Trump Admin Reduces Royalty Rates In First U.S. Oil, Gas Lease Sale
"The Trump administration on Thursday announced its first offshore oil and gas lease sale, offering 76 million acres (30 million hectares) in the Gulf of Mexico and reduced royalty rates for shallow-water leases to encourage drilling at a time of low oil prices."
Source: Reuters, 07/17/2017
U.S. Flood Insurance Program Is Sinking. Rescuing It Won’t Be Easy.
"PEQUANNOCK, N.J. — Time after time, as the river has risen and the water has crept up Roosevelt Street, Leni-anne Shuchter has fled the white clapboard home she bought more than four decades ago."
Source: Washington Post, 07/17/2017
"The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip"
"Louisiana serves as a terrifying example of what can become of a state that shortchanges science and environmental regulations to boost industry and infrastructure." "If you’re visiting New Orleans and want to see something truly amazing, take your beer or daiquiri to-go and walk a few blocks past the Superdome—you’ll find a school being constructed on an old waste dump."
Source: LongReads, 07/14/2017
"House Committee Approves Spending Bill For Energy, Water Programs"
"The House Appropriations Committee approved a $37.6 billion annual spending bill for the Department of Energy and water infrastructure programs on Wednesday."
Source: The Hill, 07/14/2017
Forecasters: Lake Erie Algae Bloom Shaping Up As Big, Possibly Harmful
"This year's bloom is predicted by NOAA to be much larger than average - just under the size of the 2014 bloom that left 500,000 without drinking water".
"The forecast for western Lake Erie for later this summer into fall?: Green and mucky.
The algae blooms that have plagued the lake in recent years are expected to be worse than normal this year, well above the size at which they can potentially become harmful to aquatic life and even humans, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters announced Thursday.
Source: Detroit Free Press, 07/14/2017
"House Defeats Amendment To Strip Climate Study From Defense Bill"
"The House defeated an amendment to a defense policy bill Thursday that would have blocked a Department of Defense study into the impacts of climate change on national security."
Source: The Hill, 07/14/2017
