"This Environmental Lawyer Helped Thwart Trump's Border Wall"
"A major environmental group helped drive a federal court decision last week blocking emergency funds for President Trump's planned border wall build-out."
Source: Greenwire, 05/29/2019
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"Trump EPA Backs Away From Smog Breaks For Foxconn, Indiana Steel Mills"
"When the Trump administration exempted parts of the Chicago area last year from federal limits on lung-damaging smog, it delivered a huge financial break to steel mills, chemical plants and other industries that are some of the region’s biggest polluters."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 05/29/2019
"Interior: Bill Would Expand Roster Of National Wildlife Refuges"
"A half-million-acre national wildlife refuge would be established in California's Riverside County under a new bill introduced with bipartisan support."
Source: Greenwire, 05/29/2019
"Nuclear: Global Climate Goals In Peril As Reactors Close — IEA"
"The world is on track to lose a quarter of existing nuclear capacity by 2025, leaving clean energy and climate goals in jeopardy, according to a report released today."
Source: EnergyWire, 05/29/2019
"Politics: GOP Criticizes Its Own On Climate"
"As some Republicans inch toward climate policy for the first time in years, those in the party who reject climate science are getting nervous that a more permanent shift is coming. And they're going on the attack against their former allies.
Source: ClimateWire, 05/29/2019
High Radiation Levels Found In Giant Clams Near Marshall Islands Site
"Researchers have found high levels of radiation in giant clams near the Central Pacific site where the United States entombed waste from nuclear testing almost four decades ago, raising concerns the contamination is spreading from the dump site’s tainted groundwater into the ocean and the food chain."
Source: LA Times, 05/29/2019
"As North Dakota Oil Soars, So Does Waste Of Natural Gas"
"North Dakota oil drillers are falling far short of the state’s goals to limit the burning of excess natural gas at well heads, five years after the state adopted the rules to reduce the wasteful and environmentally harmful practice."
Source: AP, 05/29/2019
"Report: Pennsylvania Must Do More To Help Chesapeake Bay"
"A nonprofit that tracks pollution in the Chesapeake Bay lambasted Pennsylvania on Tuesday, saying that the state is failing to protect the nation’s largest estuary from farm manure and dirty stormwater."
Source: AP, 05/29/2019
"European Greens Surge As Voters Abandon Old Parties Over Climate"
"European Green parties on Monday were cheering E.U. elections that vaulted them into a kingmaking position of power, as voters abandoned traditional political parties in favor of climate-focused activists in a green wave that swept several countries."
Source: Washington Post, 05/29/2019
For Students, SEJ Conference Can Make the Grade
Not only is the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual gathering a great way for student journalists to get propelled into the profession, argues our most recent EJ Academy column. It’s also how SEJ itself can invest in its future. The case for creative ways to bring newbies to the next conference.
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