"New Database Shows Pollutants In Most Public Water Systems"
"A new national database released Wednesday by the Environmental Working Group shines a light on water quality across the U.S."
Source: NPR, 07/27/2017
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"Bundy Follower Gets 68 Years For Role In Armed Nevada Standoff"
"One of two men convicted in the first of several trials stemming from a 2014 standoff led by renegade rancher Cliven Bundy against federal authorities in Nevada was sentenced on Wednesday to 68 years in prison for his role in the armed confrontation."
Source: Reuters, 07/27/2017
"New Diesel And Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 in UK"
"New diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2040 in a bid to tackle air pollution, the government has announced."
Source: BBC News, 07/27/2017
"EPA To Seek Comments On Obama Water Rule Repeal"
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is allowing the public to weigh in on its proposal to repeal the Obama administration’s controversial water pollution rule."
Source: The Hill, 07/27/2017
"Plastic Garbage Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific"
"Yet another floating mass of microscopic plastic has been discovered in the ocean, and it is mind-blowingly vast."
Source: National Geographic, 07/27/2017
Appropriations: Panel OKs Bill To Cut NOAA and NSF, Boost Satellites
"Senate appropriators approved legislation yesterday afternoon that would cut NOAA but boost weather satellite spending during fiscal 2018."
Source: E&E Daily, 07/27/2017
"Wildlife: Senate Panel OKs Conservation Package"
"The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee [Wednesday] quickly approved a conservation package whose potential reach extends from the Chesapeake Bay and Western state wetlands to hunters and anglers everywhere."
Source: Greenwire, 07/27/2017
"California’s Marine Sanctuaries May Face New Drilling Threat"
"The same communities that fought for decades to protect California’s coast from offshore oil drilling have renewed their battle calls as the Trump administration considers opening 3,500 square miles of state waters to energy development."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 07/27/2017
"EPA: Transition Aide Blasts Pruitt, 'Red Team, Blue Team' Scheme"
"David Schnare, who resigned from U.S. EPA earlier this year under a cloud of controversy, is faulting Administrator Scott Pruitt over his leadership of the agency."
Source: Greenwire, 07/27/2017
"AEP to Spend $4.5 Billion on the Largest Wind Farm in the U.S."
"U.S. utility giant American Electric Power Co. is looking to invest $4.5 billion in a massive wind farm spread across Oklahoma’s panhandle and a new transmission line that will carry the power to customers."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/27/2017
