"Five Dead As Severe Weather Slams South"
"Five people died Monday when violent storms barreled through the South, causing power outages, flooding and downed power lines."
Source: USA TODAY, 01/03/2017
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"4 Children Die When Pesticide, Water Mix Creates Toxic Gas"
"Four children died after someone at their home sprayed water on a previously applied pesticide, causing a reaction that produced toxic phosphine gas, officials in Amarillo, Texas, said."
Source: CNN, 01/03/2017
Congress Will Battle Over Obamacare, Environmental Regs, Cabinet
"A new, Republican-controlled U.S. Congress convenes on Tuesday eager to repeal major portions of President Barack Obama's healthcare law and roll back environmental and financial industry regulations, but could quickly become embroiled in fights over President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet choices."
Source: Newsweek, 01/03/2017
With No Warning, House GOPers Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office
"House Republicans, overriding their top leaders, voted on Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail."
Source: NY Times, 01/03/2017
"Shielded Native American Sites Thrust Into Debate Over Dams"
"A little-known federal program that avoids publicizing its accomplishments to protect from looters the thousands of Native American sites it's tasked with managing has been caught up in a big net."
Source: AP, 01/02/2017
"Texas Winegrowers Fear New Herbicides Will Wipe Out Industry"
"Competing against millions of acres of cotton, winegrowers fear federal approval of new herbicides to be used on genetically modified cotton seeds will wipe out the wine industry in the Texas High Plains."
Source: Texas Tribune, 01/02/2017
High Demand, Low Supply: Colorado River Water Crisis Hits Across West
"The Colorado River is like a giant bank account for seven different states. Now it's running short. For decades, the river has fed growing cities from Denver to Los Angeles. A lot of the produce in supermarkets across the country was grown with Colorado River water. But with climate change, and severe drought, the river is reaching a crisis point, and communities at each end of it are reacting very differently."
Source: NPR, 01/02/2017
"Beijing Starts 2017 Under A Cloud"
"Beijing woke on the first morning of the New Year covered in thick toxic fog, with a concentration of harmful particles 20 times higher than international standards."
Source: AFP, 01/02/2017
Photos: Growing Louisiana Oil and Gas Industry Helps Shrink Coast
"The Louisiana coast loses a football field’s worth of land every 38 minutes. This staggering rate of land loss has been brought on by climate change and coastal erosion accelerated by human activities, including water diversion projects and damage done by the oil and gas industry."
Source: DeSmog, 01/02/2017
"At Blackwater Refuge, Rising Sea Levels Drown Habitat"
"The view from the observation deck over a meadow of brown marsh grasses would make a nice postcard. Eagles roost on tall pines, muskrats burrow in mounds of mud and straw, and black ducks splash in a pond."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 01/02/2017
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