"Patagonia Founder Rejects 'Disingenuous' Invitation To Testify"
"Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard on Tuesday rejected an invitation to testify before the House Natural Resources Committee, calling it “disingenuous.”"
Source: The Hill, 12/20/2017
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Electric Trucks Report for Duty, Quietly and Without All the Fumes
"Replacing fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks can help cut greenhouse gas emissions and make cities quieter and cleaner."
Source: InsideClimate News, 12/20/2017
"Private No More: Montana City Takes Control of Its Water System"
"Missoula was the only city in Montana that had a privately owned water system. Now, after decades of effort, it has succeeded in taking back the utility. City leaders explain how it happened."
Source: Water Deeply, 12/20/2017
EPA Orders 6 Companies To Continue $26 Million Indiana Lead Cleanup
"EAST CHICAGO — The U.S Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it issued two unilateral administrative orders to six companies to clean up soil and indoor dust at the USS Lead Superfund site."
Source: Northwest Indiana Times, 12/20/2017
"Endangered Species: Interior To Revise ESA Listing Rules"
"The Interior Department is working on possible Endangered Species Act changes, in a move that alarms environmentalists but could gratify Westerners and others unhappy with the current law."
Source: Greenwire, 12/20/2017
State Predicts PolyMet Would Need $1B To Cover Risks From Copper Mine
"PolyMet Mining Corp. would have to put up roughly $1 billion dollars halfway through the life of its proposed copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota to protect state taxpayers from environmental risks — with more than half the funds dedicated to a trust fund for water treatment that would be required long after the mine has closed."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 12/20/2017
"Green Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Delay Of Methane Rule"
"A coalition of nearly 20 environmental and Native American tribal groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, challenging its delay of a rule limiting emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas drilling operations on federal lands."
Source: Reuters, 12/20/2017
Trump WH Rolls Back EPA Plan to Restrict Dangerous Household Chemicals
"The Trump administration has quietly delayed action on dangerous solvents that the Environmental Protection Agency had previously planned to ban."
Source: The Intercept, 12/20/2017
"EPA Says Superfund Task Force Left Behind Little Paper Trail"
"The Environmental Protection Agency says an internal task force appointed to revamp how the nation’s most polluted sites are cleaned up generated no record of its deliberations."
Source: AP, 12/20/2017
Firm Whose Staff Scoured EPA Employees’ Emails Loses Media Contract
"A consulting firm has pulled out of a federal contract to provide media monitoring services to the Environmental Protection Agency after it was disclosed that a lawyer among its top executives had been investigating agency employees critical of the Trump administration."
Source: NY Times, 12/20/2017
