"Warming Rivers Threaten Iconic Michigan Fish"
"A beloved, cold-loving state fish is in danger of overheating."
Source: Daily Climate, 08/21/2017
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"Broader Relaxation Of Environmental Rules Seen Coming From Foxconn"
"Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to exempt Foxconn from state wetland restrictions may do more to attract smaller developments in the future than it will to lure the electronics giant to Wisconsin, critics of the plan say."
Source: Wisconsin State Journal, 08/21/2017
"More GOP Lawmakers Bucking Their Party On Climate Change"
"While President Donald Trump continues to dismantle Obama-era climate policies, an unlikely surge of Republican lawmakers has begun taking steps to distance themselves from the GOP’s hard line on climate change."
Source: Politico, 08/21/2017
"Trump’s Favorite Tycoon"
"One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: New Yorker, 08/21/2017
"Trump's Day Of Doom For National Monuments Approaches"
"Created by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, the Cascade-Siskiyou monument protects Oregon’s extraordinary biodiversity, from butterflies to trout. But a Trump review threatens to open the landscape to the timber industry".
Source: Guardian, 08/21/2017
EPA Promised ‘a New Day’ for the Agriculture Industry, Documents Reveal
"In the weeks before the Environmental Protection Agency decided to reject its own scientists’ advice to ban a potentially harmful pesticide, Scott Pruitt, the agency’s head, promised farming industry executives who wanted to keep using the pesticide that it is “a new day, and a new future,” and that he was listening to their pleas."
Source: NY Times, 08/21/2017
Trump Disbands Federal Advisory Committee On Climate Change
"The Trump administration has decided to disband the federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping policymakers and private-sector officials incorporate the government’s climate analysis into long-term planning."
Source: Washington Post, 08/21/2017
"Leading Elephant Conservationist Shot Dead In Tanzania"
"The head of an animal conservation NGO who had received numerous death threats has been shot and killed by an unknown gunman in Tanzania."
Source: Guardian, 08/18/2017
"Missouri Regulators Reject Massive Midwest Wind Power Line"
"Missouri utility regulators on Wednesday rejected a proposed high-voltage power line to carry wind power across the Midwest to eastern states, delivering a significant setback to developers of one of the nation's longest transmission lines."
Source: AP, 08/18/2017
"Zika Has All But Disappeared In The Americas. Why?"
"One. That is the total number of locally transmitted Zika cases confirmed in the continental United States this year, as of mid-August. That single case, recorded on 26 July in Hidalgo County in Texas, which borders Mexico, contrasts with hundreds of cases of local transmission last year."
Source: Science, 08/18/2017
