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"Schiff Demands Intelligence Agencies Provide Documents On White House’s Suppression Of Climate Testimony"

"House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) demanded Tuesday that the heads of two federal intelligence agencies provide documents detailing how White House officials sought to edit — and then suppress — written testimony saying that human activities are warming the planet and that the climate changes underway pose a grave national security threat."

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"The Environment For Reporters Covering The EPA Just Got A Lot More Toxic"

"While the Trump administration is not known for velvety smooth relations with the news media, federal agencies are far more likely to ignore reporters than to officially scold them. Not the EPA. Reporters whom the agency deems to have misreported can expect to hear about it, and not just through a polite phone call or an email requesting a correction. Instead, the EPA goes public."

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Oceans Are Melting Glaciers from Below Much Faster than Predicted: Study

"Tidewater glaciers are being ‘eaten away on both ends’ as global warming worsens, suggesting faster sea level rise and ice melt that can alter ocean ecosystems." "Beneath the ocean's surface, glaciers may be melting 10 to 100 times faster than previously believed, new research shows."

Source: InsideClimate News, 07/26/2019

Fearing Oil Spills, Tribe Sues to Get Pipeline Removed from Its Land

"Driven by fears of rapid erosion that threatens to expose a crude oil pipeline to rushing water, a Native American tribe is suing pipeline giant Enbridge to force it to remove an aging pipeline whose easement through the reservation has expired."

Source: InsideClimate News, 07/26/2019

Small Towns Fear They Are Unprepared For Future Climate-Driven Flooding

"It technically began last fall when Hurricane Florence swelled the Ohio River, but really it was all the unnamed storms that came after it — one after another after another, bringing rain on rain on rain across the central U.S. until the Mississippi River hit flood stage this winter."

Source: NPR, 07/26/2019

Interior Whistleblowers Say Agency Has Sidelined Scientists Under Trump

"Former Interior Department employees who say they experienced retaliation at the agency for their work on scientific endeavors appeared before lawmakers Thursday, sparking political wrangling over the role of scientists in the Trump administration."

Source: The Hill, 07/26/2019

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