Nearly 2,700 Natural Gas Storage Wells Are at Risk for a Major Leak
"Across the country, companies keep extra natural gas in aging underground wells that weren't originally designed for such storage."
Source: Pacific Standard, 05/26/2017
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"U.S. Weather Forecasters Predict Above-Normal Hurricane Season"
"U.S. weather forecasters on Thursday predicted more tropical storms in 2017 than normal for the Atlantic hurricane season, which last year brought one of the deadliest recorded storm systems that killed several hundred people."
Source: Reuters, 05/26/2017
As Arctic Sea Ice Shows Record Decline, Scientists Prepare To Go Blind
"Due to congressional budget cuts, the 38-year continuous U.S. Arctic satellite monitoring program is about to end, leaving researchers blind to ongoing Arctic sea ice losses."
Source: Mongabay, 05/26/2017
"Coal: 'This Is Our Home. We Don't Want To Live Nowhere Else'"
"NAOMA, W.Va. — Junior Walk stands with one foot resting on the stoop of a log house. A slab of wood mounted above the door reads in hand-painted letters: Coal River Mountain Watch."
Source: Greenwire, 05/25/2017
"Endangered Science"
"Can Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar oversee objective scientific research into rare species? Or is he rigging the process to keep them off the endangered list, as his critics charge?"
Source: Texas Observer, 05/25/2017
EU Called Glyphosate Safe After Help From Controversial Us Official
"The European Food Safety Authority dismissed a study linking a Monsanto weedkiller to cancer after counsel from a US Environmental Protection Agency officer allegedly linked to the company."
Source: Guardian, 05/25/2017
"Icahn Guides Trump’s Policy and Scores $60 Million"
"Government work has paid off handsomely for billionaire Carl Icahn."
Source: Bloomberg, 05/25/2017
Scientists Publish An Entire Study Refuting Scott Pruitt On Climate
"In a sign of growing tensions between scientists and the Trump administration, researchers published a scientific paper Wednesday that was conceived and written as an explicit refutation to an assertion by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt about climate change."
Source: Washington Post, 05/25/2017
"Trump EPA Gives Landfills a Pass on Climate-Warming Methane"
"The Environmental Protection Agency has announced it will delay rules aimed at cutting methane emissions from landfills, a move that could unravel attempts to limit the potent greenhouse gas from leaking into the atmosphere from the nation's garbage dumps."
Source: InsideClimate News, 05/25/2017
"Trump WH Says It Isn’t Anti-Science As It Seeks to Slash EPA Science
"The [EPA] Office of Research and Development has been at frontlines of virtually every environmental crisis. Trump wants to cut its funding in half."
Source: ProPublica, 05/25/2017
