As US Virus Cases Hit 3.5 Million, Officials Scramble to Add Restrictions
"More U.S. school districts have joined the move toward online learning for their reopening plans."
Source: NYTimes, 07/16/2020
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Trump Scales Back Landmark Environmental Law, Claims Help To Economy
"President Trump finalized a major overhaul Wednesday of one of the country’s most consequential environmental laws on the grounds that it has slowed the construction of highways, pipelines and other major projects across the country. The sweeping changes to the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act, which opponents have vowed to fight in court and reverse if Democrats regain control of the executive and legislative branches this fall, underscore the stakes in this year’s election."
Source: Washington Post, 07/16/2020
Trump To Announce Rollback of Bedrock Environmental Protection Law
"President Trump plans this week to overhaul a federal law that poor and minority communities around the country have used for generations to delay or stop projects that threaten to pollute their neighborhoods — a law he says needlessly blocks good jobs, industry and public works."
Source: Washington Post, 07/15/2020
"Dakota Access Pipeline Gets Temporary Relief From Court"
"Dakota Access pipeline developers scored temporary relief from federal appellate judges who agreed to briefly freeze a lower court order directing the oil project to shut down next month."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 07/15/2020
"How Facebook Handles Climate Disinformation"
"Critics say a company policy that exempts opinion articles from fact-checking amounts to a huge loophole for climate change deniers."
Source: NYTimes, 07/15/2020
"New Data Show an ‘Extraordinary’ Rise in U.S. Coastal Flooding"
"Rising seas are bringing water into communities at record rates, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday."
Source: NYTimes, 07/15/2020
What Dr. Fauci Can Learn from Climate Scientists About Personal Attacks
"Climate experts have watched with an uneasy sense of deja vu as national and local public health leaders have been harassed, insulted and threatened."
Source: InsideClimate News, 07/15/2020
"15 States Pledge Emissions-Free Truck Sales By 2050"
"Fifteen states and the city of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday announced an agreement that aims to make all new truck and bus sales emission-free by 2050."
Source: The Hill, 07/15/2020
"Global Methane Emissions Reach a Record High"
"Global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, soared to a record high in 2017, the most recent year for which worldwide data are available, researchers said Tuesday." "Scientists expect emissions, driven by fossil fuels and agriculture, to continue rising rapidly."
Source: NYTimes, 07/15/2020
"4 Former CDC Heads Say Trump's Undermining Of Agency Puts Lives At Risk"
"Four former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blasted the Trump administration's 'repeated efforts to subvert' agency guidelines related to reopening schools, accusing the White House in a scathing Washington Post op-ed of undermining science with 'partisan potshots.'"
Source: Axios, 07/15/2020
