"Biofuels: Trade Group Sues EPA Over Refineries' Hardship Waivers"
"A biofuels advocacy group is challenging EPA's decision to exempt refiners from annual renewable fuel requirements."
Source: Greenwire, 05/03/2018
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"EPA: Lobbyist Recommended Science Advisers"
"The lobbyist whose wife's Capitol Hill condo was home to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt for part of last year recommended candidates for the agency's Science Advisory Board."
Source: Greenwire, 05/03/2018
Bernhardt Keeps Meeting With Lobbyists For Client of His Former Firm
"David Bernhardt met with lobbyists for MGM Resorts who oppose a tribal casino. Interior has now balked at approving that casino."
Source: HuffPost, 05/03/2018
"Trump’s Solar Tariffs Cause a Scramble in the Industry"
"SunPower is the nation’s No. 2 commercial solar-power company, employing thousands of workers directly and indirectly. But it makes most of its solar panels abroad, and with the tariffs recently imposed by President Trump costing it as much as $2 million a week, SunPower is fighting for an exemption."
Source: NY Times, 05/03/2018
9 Of 10 Air Pollution Deaths Occur In Developing Countries: WHO Study
"Almost every single person worldwide breathes in toxic air on a regular basis, although the consequences for those living in developing regions are more deadly, according to a new World Health Organization study."
Source: HuffPost, 05/03/2018
Ex-Lobbyist for Foreign Governments Helped Plan Pruitt Trip to Australia
"A Washington consultant who was removed from President Trump’s transition team for using his business email address for government work played a central role last year in planning a trip to Australia for Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and then took steps to disguise his role, new documents show."
Source: NY Times, 05/03/2018
US-British Project Launches To Study The World’s Most Dangerous Glacier
"The largest U.S.-British Antarctic mission in seven decades officially launched at an event in Cambridge on Monday, as the two countries pooled dollars and scientific resources for missions to West Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier — a Florida-size ice body that, scientists fear, could flood the world’s coastlines in our lifetimes."
Source: Washington Post, 05/02/2018
"The Last-Ditch Climate Strategy of Total Retreat Is Failing in America"
"After two vicious floods, Sidney, N.Y., decided to pull back from the river. Seven years later, things haven’t turned out as planned."
Source: Bloomberg, 05/02/2018
"EPA Designates Areas Non-Compliant With 2015 Ozone Standards"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday identified 51 areas in 22 states that do not currently meet federal ozone requirements, a step toward carrying out national air quality standards for ozone that were issued in 2015."
Source: Reuters, 05/02/2018
Diseases Spread By Ticks, Mosquitoes And Fleas Tripled In Us Since 2004
"The warmer weather of spring and summer means the start of tick and mosquito season and the diseases they transmit, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, West Nile and Zika."
Source: Washington Post, 05/02/2018
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