"Climate: 17 Republicans Back Resolution Urging Action On Warming"
"The Republican climate resolution that jump-started a conversation on global warming ahead of Pope Francis' 2015 visit to Capitol Hill is back."
Source: Greenwire, 03/16/2017
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"WV Senate Bill Eliminates Mine Safety Enforcement"
"State safety inspectors wouldn’t inspect West Virginia’s coal mines anymore. They would conduct 'compliance visits and education.'"
Source: Charleston Gazette-Mail, 03/16/2017
"White House Proposes Reviving Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site"
"The White House’s fiscal 2018 budget plan for the U.S. Department of Energy includes $120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project stalled for years by lawsuits and local opposition."
Source: Reuters, 03/16/2017
National Academies Praise Obama Climate Report Pending Under Trump
"The United States’ top independent science experts have blessed a draft Obama administration climate science report — left behind for the Trump administration to finish — that presents a strong contrast to inaccurate scientific claims by President Trump’s top environmental official."
Source: Washington Post, 03/16/2017
Interior Department To Withdraw Obama-Era Fracking Rule, Filings Reveal
"The Trump administration plans to withdraw and rewrite a 2015 rule aimed at limiting hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” on public lands, the Interior Department indicated in court filings Wednesday."
Source: Washington Post, 03/16/2017
"Trump, Easing Emissions Rule, Vows to Expand Auto Jobs"
"President Trump came to the heart of the auto industry on Wednesday with a manifesto for American manufacturing: to remove the shackles of regulation and restore an age of industrial glory."
Source: NY Times, 03/16/2017
Large Sections of Australia’s Great Reef Are Now Dead, Scientists Find
"The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has long been one of the world’s most magnificent natural wonders, so enormous it can be seen from space, so beautiful it can move visitors to tears. But the reef, and the profusion of sea creatures living near it, are in profound trouble."
Source: NY Times, 03/16/2017
"Trump’s Budget Takes A Sledgehammer to the EPA"
"The Trump administration plans to take a sledgehammer to the Environmental Protection Agency. Thursday’s proposal by the White House would slash the EPA’s budget by 31 percent — nearly one third — from its current level of $8.1 billion to $5.7 billion. It would cut 3,200 positions, or more than 20 percent of the agency’s current workforce of about 15,000."
Source: Washington Post, 03/16/2017
"U.S. Group Sierra Club Seeks Probe Of EPA's Pruitt Over CO2 Comments"
"U.S. environmental group the Sierra Club has asked the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general to investigate whether the agency's head, Scott Pruitt, violated internal policies when he said he did not believe carbon dioxide was a major contributor to climate change, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 03/16/2017
Unsealed Documents Raise New Safety Doubts on Monsanto Weedkiller Roundup
"The reputation of Roundup, whose active ingredient is the world’s most widely used weed killer, took a hit on Tuesday when a federal court unsealed documents raising questions about its safety and the research practices of its manufacturer, the chemical giant Monsanto."
Source: NY Times, 03/16/2017
