"Hurricane Michael is rambling past coal-ash dumps at Florida power plants, raising concerns that toxins could spill into waterways for the second time in a month in the U.S. Southeast."
"Activists say hydrofluoric acid, which is widely used in the petroleum industry, presents a real and unnecessary risk. Oil refiners disagree."
"EPA announced the removal today [Wednesday] of 18 previously polluted tracts from its Superfund cleanup list over the past 12 months, the most in any fiscal year since 2005."
"The confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court may have already had repercussions on a high-profile climate change lawsuit brought by a group of young Americans."
"A water infrastructure bill is headed to President Trump's desk after the Senate voted to pass it 99-1 today."
"At least one person is dead and hundreds of thousands of homes are without power as Hurricane Michael moves inland from Florida to Georgia."
"In April 2018, the Trump administration announced Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was open for business. By June, two Alaska Native Regional Corporations and a small oil company had already jointly applied to conduct extensive seismic testing in the refuge next winter."
"States that rely on the shrinking supply of water from the Colorado River have released drafts of a set of agreements intended to prevent reservoirs on the river from falling to perilously low levels."
"The BBC has been criticised for giving a prominent climate change denier airtime during a news programme on a landmark UN report warning the planet faces imminent catastrophe if carbon emissions are not radically curbed."
"One of the oldest coal companies in the U.S. filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday to deal with more than $1.4 billion in debt amid declining demand for the fuel."
