"A New Golden Age for Trophy Hunters"
"Trump once called the practice a 'horror show.' But his Interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, keeps doing favors for big-game killers."
Source: New Republic, 08/15/2018
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"Draft Details Trump’s Plan For Reversing Obama Climate Rule"
"The Trump administration is preparing to unveil its plan for undoing Barack Obama’s most ambitious climate regulation — offering a replacement that would do far less to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet, according to POLITICO’s review of a portion of the unpublished draft."
Source: Politico, 08/15/2018
"EPA Challenged Safety Of Administration Mileage Freeze"
"The Environmental Protection Agency privately challenged the Trump administration’s rationale for freezing Obama-era mileage standards, saying the proposal would actually increase U.S. highway deaths."
Source: AP, 08/15/2018
Illinois Sues Trump Tower for Violating Chicago River Water Protections
"Trump International Hotel & Tower is endangering fish and other aquatic life in the Chicago River, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan alleges in a new lawsuit targeting the president’s skyscraper for multiple violations of clean water laws."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 08/15/2018
"Public Lands: BLM Document Reveals Ambitious NEPA Overhaul"
"Last summer, the Interior Department gave its bureaus 30 days to decide how they would streamline environmental reviews of energy production, infrastructure build-out and other major actions on public lands. The Bureau of Land Management has moved aggressively on its list of priorities, which are listed in a Sept. 27, 2017, report obtained by E&E News under the Freedom of Information Act."
Source: EnergyWire, 08/15/2018
"Federal Agencies: Scientists Report Political Meddling, Self-Censorship"
"Federal scientists at EPA, the Interior Department and other agencies are reporting political interference with their work, requests to remove 'climate change' from research and declining staff levels, a new survey of government employees said."
Source: Greenwire, 08/15/2018
DEADLINE: SEJ Post-Conference Tour with IJNR — North America's Great Lakes
SEJ and IJNR invite journalist attendees of SEJ's 28th annual conference in Flint to apply for the expenses-paid post-conference tour, October 7-10, 2018 to northern Michigan, where lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron come together. Deadline is Sep 21.
Zinke: Blame Wildfires on Environmentalists — Not Climate Change
"The US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, has blamed environmentalists for California’s ferocious wildfires and claimed, contrary to scientific research, that climate change had “nothing to do” with them. Instead, he said the fires were worsened because of limits on logging."
Source: Guardian, 08/14/2018
"GOP Lauds States' Rights. Why Is It Against Calif. Car Rule?"
"An influential conservative organization last week mirrored a broad debate within Republican circles over states' rights on environmental issues — it's OK sometimes, but not always."
Source: ClimateWire, 08/14/2018
Significant Rise In Mosquito "Disease Danger Days" In U.S., Report Warns
"As global temperatures continue to rise, the number of mosquito "disease danger days" is increasing across much of the United States, representing a greater risk for transmission of mosquito-borne diseases, according to a new report."
Source: CBS News, 08/14/2018
