"Green Groups Vow War Over Trump’s Climate Rollback"
"Environmentalists and their allies are pledging to go to war against President Trump’s efforts to roll back his predecessor’s climate change agenda."
Source: The Hill, 03/29/2017
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Webinar: Go Deep: The Legal Implications of Deep Ocean Resource Exploration and Extraction
As oceans are an increasingly important resource for many industries and coastal states, and activities move further offshore, this World Ocean Council webinar, 12:15-1:30 pm MDT, will examine new legal questions raised as activities move further offshore, beyond the boundaries of coastal state laws into the realm of international conventions and regulators. Event is no charge; registration required.
"Threatened U.S. Pullout Might Help, Not Hobble, Global Climate Pact"
"A 2015 global pact for fighting climate change will benefit in some ways at least if U.S. President Donald Trump carries out a threat to pull out, backers say, in a shift from gloom about the fate of a deal that took two decades to negotiate."
Source: Reuters, 03/28/2017
"When Is It Time to Retreat from Climate Change?"
"Isle de Jean Charles, a stitch of land on the tattered southern fringe of Louisiana, is thin and getting thinner. Battered by storms and sea-level rise, and deprived of revitalizing sediment from the Mississippi River, its surface area has shrunk by ninety-eight per cent since 1955, and its remaining three hundred and twenty acres can flood in little more than a stiff breeze."
Source: New Yorker, 03/28/2017
EPA Didn't Tighten Standards For Lead, Leaving Communities Adrift
"DEPUE, Ill. — Mayor Eric Bryant was leading his usual tour the other day, driving visitors past the poisoned lake, around the abandoned bungalows, and over dusty ball fields until he reached a glittering metal mountain known here as the 'Pile of Black Death.'"
Source: STAT, 03/28/2017
"USDA Drops Plan To Test For Monsanto Weed Killer In Food"
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has quietly dropped a plan to start testing food for residues of glyphosate, the world’s most widely used weed killer and the key ingredient in Monsanto’s branded Roundup herbicides."
Source: USRTK/Huffington Post, 03/28/2017
A Merciless Bat-Killing Fungus Is On The Move Again. Now It’s In Texas.
"A notorious fungus that’s killing bats by the millions is now in Texas, the state with the nation’s largest diversity of bats and, in a cave outside San Antonio, one of the world’s largest colonies of a single species."
Source: Washington Post, 03/28/2017
"Maryland General Assembly Approves Fracking Ban"
"The Maryland General Assembly on Monday gave final passage to a ban on fracking in the state, sending the measure to Gov. Larry Hogan for his promised signature."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 03/28/2017
Climate Change-Fueled Jet Stream Linked to Floods and Heatwaves: Study
"When Michael Mann goes before Congress Wednesday to testify on global warming, he'll be armed with one more piece of evidence that greenhouse gases from fossil fuel burning are fundamentally altering the climate and leading to life-threatening and costly extreme weather."
Source: InsideClimate News, 03/28/2017
"Perry Pushes Nevada Nuclear Waste Site In First Official Visit"
"U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry pushed for opening Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in a meeting with the state's governor on Monday, but the local leader said he remains staunchly opposed to the project."
Source: Reuters, 03/28/2017
