Court: EPA Broke Endangered Species Law In Approving 59 Pesticides
"U.S. EPA violated the Endangered Species Act when it issued 59 pesticide registrations between 2007 and 2012, a federal court has found."
Source: E&E News PM, 05/10/2017
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"States Sue Over Trump Decision To Restart Coal Lease Program"
"Four states are suing over the Trump administration’s decision to restart the sale of coal leases on federal lands."
Source: Seattle Times, 05/10/2017
"‘Dead Rivers, Closed Beaches’: A Water Crisis on Long Island"
"The Great South Bay, flanked by Fire Island and the South Shore of Long Island, once produced half the shellfish consumed in the United States, and supported 6,000 jobs in the early 1970s."
Source: NY Times, 05/10/2017
Hanford Workers Take Cover After Cave-In Of Radioactive Waste Tunnel
"A tunnel containing radioactive waste caved in at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Richland Tuesday morning, forcing nearly 4,800 workers to take cover indoors."
Source: Seattle Times, 05/10/2017
Could FOIA Force Trump Administration to Restore Missing Climate Data?
"Three groups are putting a new open records rule to the test to bring back climate change information removed by the new administration. They just might succeed."
Source: InsideClimate News, 05/10/2017
"Majority of Superfund Sites Near Low-Income Housing"
"About 70 percent of the country’s contaminated sites are near low-income housing, two federal agencies have found."
Source: BNA, 05/10/2017
"Trump To Make Decision On Paris Climate Pact After G7 Summit"
"U.S. President Donald Trump will not make a decision on whether to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement until after he returns from the May 26-27 Group of Seven summit, the White House said Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 05/10/2017
Moose-Killing Tick Threat Looms As Far-North Climate Warms
"A small but dangerous parasite, the winter tick, is spreading north and west as winters become shorter and now is knocking at Alaska's border. The winter tick, which has already devastated moose populations in New England and the upper Midwest, has been confirmed in Canada's Yukon Territory and in the Northwest Territories, where it's infecting elk, mule deer and some moose."
Source: Alaska Dispatch News, 05/09/2017
"Pipeline Spill By Dakota Access Company Could Have A ‘Deadly Effect’"
"The director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency on Monday blasted the pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners for a “pattern” of 18 spills of drilling materials and said that the size of the biggest spill could reach 5 million gallons, more than double original estimates."
Source: Washington Post, 05/09/2017
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