"Low Oxygen Levels, Coral Bleaching Getting Worse In Ocean"
"Global warming is making the world’s oceans sicker, depleting them of oxygen and harming delicate coral reefs more often, two studies show."
Source: AP, 01/05/2018
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Without Fanfare, Oil Companies Received A Tax Break On New Year’s Day
"Congressional Republicans allowed a tax on oil companies that generated hundreds of millions of dollars annually for federal oil-spill response efforts to expire this week — a move that amounts to another corporate break in the wake of lawmakers’ sweeping tax overhaul late last month."
Source: Washington Post, 01/05/2018
Official Who Overlooked Environmental Regs Said To Be Next NPS Acting Head
"A former top National Park Service official implicated more than a decade ago for improperly paving the way for the owner of the Washington Redskins to cut down trees on a 2-acre scenic easement along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park is expected to become the agency's next acting director, possibly as soon as next week, National Parks Traveler has learned."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 01/05/2018
"W.H.O. Approves a Safe, Inexpensive Typhoid Vaccine"
"A new, highly effective typhoid vaccine — the only one safe for infants — has been approved for global use by the World Health Organization. The approval was given in December but announced on Wednesday."
Source: NY Times, 01/05/2018
"Trump Moves to Open Nearly All Offshore Waters to Drilling"
"The Trump administration said Thursday it would allow new offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all United States coastal waters, giving energy companies access to leases off California for the first time in decades and opening more than a billion acres in the Arctic and along the Eastern Seaboard."
Source: NY Times, 01/05/2018
17 Ways Trump Administration Assaulted the Environment Over the Holidays
"While visions of sugarplums danced in some of our heads, the Trump administration had a different vision—of a country unbound by rules that protect people, places, wildlife and the climate. Over the past two weeks, the administration has proposed or finalized changes to how the government and the industries it regulates respond to climate change, migratory birds, clean energy, pesticides and toxic chemicals."
Source: EcoWatch, 01/04/2018
"Dominion Offers To Buy SCANA In Wake Of S.C. Nuclear Plant Failure"
"Dominion Energy delivered a blockbuster offer to buy SCANA Corp. on Wednesday in the wake of South Carolina’s failed nuclear project, pitching a $14.6 billion deal that would be among the largest in state history."
Source: Charleston Post and Courier, 01/04/2018
"Community Leader Tortured And Killed Over Land Trafficking In Peru"
"A criminal gang involved in land trafficking has tortured and murdered a community leader in northern Peru, according to his wife and local villagers who witnessed the killing."
Source: Guardian, 01/04/2018
"National Parks: New Year Brings Buyouts For NPS Workers"
"Seeking to cut its workforce in the new year, the National Park Service is offering its employees voluntary buyout packages as an incentive to get some of them to retire early."
Source: Greenwire, 01/04/2018
"Pennsylvania Shuts Down Construction On Sunoco Gas Pipeline"
"Pennsylvania environmental officials ordered Sunoco on Wednesday to halt construction of a natural gas pipeline across the southern part of the state, citing a series of spills and leaks of drilling fluid and other “egregious and willful violations” of state law that have plagued the $2.5 billion project."
Source: AP, 01/04/2018
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