"Under Fire For Travel Expenses, Pruitt Cancels Trip To Israel"
"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has canceled a nearly week-long trip to Israel, agency officials confirmed Sunday."
Source: Washington Post, 02/19/2018
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SEJ members are invited to attend and cover this inaugural event in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Elected officials, scientists, UN representatives, urban development experts and others will gather to discuss the latest scientific research on climate change and advance understanding of how cities can address this global challenge. Can't attend in person? You may be able to cover the conference remotely.
"Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking"
"CHARLESTON, S.C. — Among the biologists, geneticists and historians who use food as a lens to study the African diaspora, rice is a particularly deep rabbit hole. So much remains unknown about how millions of enslaved Africans used it in their kitchens and how it got to those kitchens to begin with. That’s what made the hill rice in Trinidad such a find."
Source: NY Times, 02/16/2018
No-Till Farmers Push for Healthy Soils Ignites a Movement in the Plains
"No-till farming started as a way to keep costs down for conventional farmers in danger of losing their land. Now it has become a subculture and a way of life for outsider farmers."
Source: Civil Eats, 02/16/2018
Pruitt Says First-Class Is Safer. Some Airline Safety Experts Disagree
"The Environmental Protection Agency says that Scott Pruitt has traveled first-class on flights both domestically and internationally over the last year because it is simply safer for him."
Source: Washington Post, 02/16/2018
"Scoop: Trump Endorses 25-Cent Gas Tax Hike"
"President Trump endorsed a 25-cent gas tax hike to pay for infrastructure at a White House meeting this morning with senior administration officials and members of Congress from both parties, according to two sources with direct knowledge."
Source: Axios, 02/16/2018
U.S. Environmental Penalties Nearly Halve In Trump's First Year: Report
"The Environmental Protection Agency levied around half the average number of penalties against polluters in the first year of the Trump administration as in the same period of the past three presidential administrations, according to a report released Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 02/16/2018
"Top EPA Science Adviser Has History Of Questioning Pollution Research"
"In 2015, the top toxicologist for the state of Texas, Michael Honeycutt, was interviewed on Houston Public Radio. At the time, the Environmental Protection Agency was pushing for tighter limits on ozone, a type of air pollution that is hazardous for people with asthma and other respiratory diseases."
Source: NPR, 02/16/2018
Coalition Warns Federal Funding Cuts Would Harm Great Lakes
"Although it’s expected that President Trump’s plan to gut Great Lakes programs will be “dead on arrival” in Congress again, a major coalition of environmental groups is prepared to show how such draconian cuts could severely hurt public health and the economy — not just the environment."
Source: Toledo Blade, 02/16/2018
Judge Orders Trump’S DOE To Implement Efficiency Rules For Appliances
"A federal judge in San Francisco ordered President Trump’s administration on Thursday to end a one-year delay on rules developed by the Obama administration to combat climate change by tightening energy-efficiency standards for portable air conditioners, building heaters and other appliances."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 02/16/2018
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