"Regulations: Court Tests Loom For Trump Rule Delays"
"The Trump administration's strategy of delaying compliance deadlines for Obama-era environmental rules is facing tests in federal courts."
Source: Greenwire, 07/07/2017
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"U.S. State Prosecutors Join Push To Ban Pesticide Chlorpyrifos"
"Six state prosecutors are seeking to join a lawsuit to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos from use on U.S.-grown fruits and vegetables, according to court papers filed on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 07/07/2017
"G20 Summit: Dealing with Climate Change in the Age of Trump"
"As the world’s big emitters meet, their response to the G20 climate plan will be a barometer of their willingness to push back on Trump and fulfill the Paris accord."
Source: InsideClimate News, 07/07/2017
"U.S. To Speed Approval For Oil, Gas Exploration On Federal Land"
"U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Thursday signed an order to hold more lease sales and to speed up approving permits to explore for oil and gas on federal land, a process he said got bogged down under former President Barack Obama."
Source: Reuters, 07/07/2017
"Trump's Alarming Environmental Rollback: What's Been Scrapped So Far"
"Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate deal may have followed months of anguished division amongst his closest advisers, but his administration has proceeded with quiet efficiency in its dismantling of other major environmental policies."
Source: Guardian, 07/06/2017
"Jerry Brown to Announce a Climate Summit Meeting in California"
"On Thursday evening, Governor Brown will mount a new challenge to the administration on climate change. In a videoconference address to a global citizen festival in Hamburg, Germany, where President Trump and other officials will negotiate wording of a statement on the Paris climate change accord, Governor Brown will issue a sweeping invitation to a global 'climate action' summit meeting in San Francisco."
Source: NY Times, 07/06/2017
"Trump May Find Some Allies on Climate Change at G-20 Meeting"
"Western European efforts to isolate President Trump for rejecting the Paris climate change agreement appear to be faltering as leaders gather for a summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany, at the end of the week."
Source: NY Times, 07/06/2017
"Congress Is Cool To Trump’s Proposal To End Heating Aid"
"PORTLAND, Maine — The summer air is sizzling as the Fourth of July approaches, yet 86-year-old Richard Perkins already worries about how he’s going to stay warm this winter."
Source: AP, 07/05/2017
"Court Blocks E.P.A. Effort to Suspend Obama-Era Methane Rule"
"Dealing a legal blow to the Trump administration, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot suspend an Obama-era rule to restrict methane emissions from new oil and gas wells."
Source: NY Times, 07/05/2017
"Western Water: Groups Sue Trump Admin For Approving Calif. Tunnels"
"Fishing and environmental groups sued the Trump administration [June 29] for concluding that Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) plan to replumb California's water system would not jeopardize key threatened species.
Brown wants to build two 40-foot-diameter tunnels buried 150 feet below ground to shuttle water around the ecologically sensitive Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, where the state's two main rivers meet before flowing to the ocean through San Francisco Bay.
Source: Greenwire, 07/03/2017
