"A key data point has been buried in the back-and-forth over the Trump administration's rollback of former President Obama's climate legacy: EPA's own research has found that lifting public health protections on air pollution could kill thousands of Americans."
"Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andrew Wheeler on Monday emphatically defended his agency’s environmental policy rollbacks as he argued that the EPA is significantly contributing to children’s health."
"The confirmed death toll from an earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has risen to 1,234, from 844, the national disaster mitigation agency said on Tuesday."
"CHICAGO - Two dozen activists stormed a public hearing on Monday hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency to rail against its plan to lift Obama-era carbon limits on power plants, causing agency officials to leave the room until the demonstration ended."
"Tropical Storm Rosa diminished from a Pacific hurricane over the weekend, but will still bring strong winds and dangerous rip currents to southern California on Monday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said."
"Florida officials confirmed a rare red tide on the state’s Atlantic coast on Monday after beach goers began complaining about coughing and itchy throats along Palm Beach County over the weekend."
"Leading scientists are meeting in South Korea this week to see if global temperatures can be kept from rising by more than 1.5C this century."
"Beach lovers were celebrating on Monday after the US supreme court declined to hear a case brought by the billionaire Vinod Khosla that threatened the public’s right to access beaches across California."
"In a major victory for environmental groups and the Havasupai Tribe, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a bid by mining interests to overturn a 20-year ban on extracting uranium from about a million acres around the Grand Canyon National Park."
"The dusky gopher frog is a somewhat defenseless creature, confined these days to a handful of pampered ponds in a Mississippi forest and at “serious risk of extinction,” according to a government lawyer. Yet it managed Monday to divide the understaffed Supreme Court into familiar camps and raised the possibility that the first case of the 2018 term might end in a tie."
