"Week Ahead: Senate Poised To Pass $220M In Flint Aid"
"The Senate is set to vote on a bill providing aid for the Flint, Mich., water crisis and other threats to drinking water around the United States."
Source: The Hill, 09/12/2016
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"House Panel Votes To Weaken Obama’s Coal Moratorium"
"A House committee on Thursday voted to exempt some leases from the White House's moratorium on leasing federal land for coal mining."
Source: The Hill, 09/12/2016
"VW Engineer Pleads Guilty in U.S. Criminal Case Over Diesel Emissions"
"A Volkswagen engineer pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to defraud regulators and car owners, in the first criminal charges stemming from the American investigation into the German carmaker’s emissions deception."
Source: NY Times, 09/12/2016
Reporter Who Filmed Dogs Charged With Trespassing At Pipeline Site
"A reporter from Democracy Now! who documented security personnel with guard dogs working for Dakota Access Pipeline is facing criminal trespassing charges in Morton County."
Source: WDAZ, 09/12/2016
"Bill Would Make Site Where Civil War Began A National Park"
"U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, the first black U.S. senator from the deep South since Reconstruction, is proposing that the site where the Civil War began be raised in status to that of a national park."
Source: AP, 09/12/2016
"Pittsburgh Water: Expensive, Rust-Colored, Corrosive"
"In many American cities, finding elevated lead levels in drinking water is enough to spark serious concern. But in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where many residents are delivered expensive, rust-colored and corrosive water, it’s just one of many of complaints."
Source: Guardian, 09/12/2016
Tainted Water: New Drinking Water Threat Concerns Scientists, Officials
"A coalition of researchers, utilities and state regulators have made progress tracking an unregulated and unwelcome contaminant in river water feeding drinking water supplies. Can they stop it?"
Source: North Carolina Health News, 09/12/2016
"Northeast Fresno Residents Sue City Over Water Problems"
"Attorneys representing three households in northeast Fresno have filed a potential class-action lawsuit against the city and others over discoloration and lead in water coming from faucets in their homes."
Source: Fresno Bee, 09/12/2016
Obama Administration: Dakota Pipeline 'Will Not Go Forward At This Time'
"Brushing aside a fresh court ruling, three federal agencies said they are withholding a permit on a portion of the project near Sioux Land."
Source: InsideClimate News, 09/12/2016
N Korea Does 5th Nuclear Test, Claims ‘Higher Strike Power’ Warheads
"North Korea defiantly celebrated its fifth nuclear test Friday, claiming that it can now make warheads small enough to fit onto a missile and warning its "enemies" — specifically the United States — that it has the ability to counter any attack."
Source: Wash Post, 09/09/2016
