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"US President Donald Trump, furious over a disparaging new tell-all book about him, threatened Wednesday to sue authors and media outlets that use anonymous sources."
"A Texas pipeline company’s lawsuit seeking potentially hundreds of millions of dollars from Greenpeace was set to advance with opening statements Wednesday in a trial the environmental organization calls an effort to silence critics of the oil industry."
"The White House said Tuesday that it would decide which news outlets have access to President Donald Trump, ripping power away from an independent association of journalists who have traditionally determined which publications are part of the press pool."
"The nation’s biggest egg producer has seen rising revenues and profits. Now some Democrats are calling for an investigation into pricing practices in the industry."
"Climate change is behind the windfall gains, and growers are worried about whether they can adapt."
"A founder of a conservative opposition research group that has investigated people who are suing the oil industry has left the group amid a staff reshuffling." "The former Argus Insight leaders have taken key roles at the Republican National Committee and the White House."
"The president’s deregulatory blitz might crash into the same repetitive setback from his first term: court defeats stemming from procedural fumbles."
"An EPA investigation confirmed residents’ worst fears about operations at an industrial landfill. What happens next is all too uncertain."
"Goal of increasing renewable energy generation 20-fold to be ditched, shareholders to be told this week"
"Congress is scheduled to vote on two bills this week that would roll back climate regulations issued in the final months of the Biden administration. The agencies that implemented the rules, which limit methane emissions from the oil and gas sector and set efficiency standards for water heaters, expected them to prevent tens of millions of tons of climate pollution in coming decades if left in place."
"On Rum, Europe’s newest dark-sky sanctuary, the island’s 40 residents have learned to embrace darkness."
"More than 200 employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been fired, according to the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA. ... The loss is likely to hinder FEMA's ability to respond to disasters, according to several current and former FEMA employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity over concerns of reprisal."
"An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. That is, how to spend what’s been pledged so far — and how to raise a lot more to help preserve plant and animal life on Earth."
"The bank accounts of nonprofits administering a $20 billion climate program have been frozen as the program faces significant scrutiny from the Trump administration."
"President Donald Trump in recent days has relied on a White House policy shop — the Council on Environmental Quality — to take a sledgehammer to what’s known as the “Magna Carta” of environmental laws."
