Ivanka Trump To Meet With EPA Chief On Paris Climate Pact Decision
"Ivanka Trump is planning to meet next week with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt about the Paris climate change agreement."
Source: The Hill, 05/05/2017
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US Crude Plunges 4.8%, Posting Worst Close In More Than Five Months
"Oil prices collapsed on Thursday to their lowest since late November as investor worries about the world's stubbornly persistent glut of crude erased most of the gains that followed last year's OPEC's output cut."
Source: Reuters, 05/05/2017
EPA Climate Website Taken Down For Review Was Accurate, Scientists Say
"As the Environmental Protection Agency proceeds with a large-scale update of its website, its climate change site has been taken down, pending review. But several climate scientists contacted by The Post argue that this is unnecessary."
Source: Washington Post, 05/05/2017
"Population Boom Creates Environmental Consequences In Florida Lagoon"
"The most biologically diverse waterway in America is in bad shape. The Indian River Lagoon is repeatedly being choked with oxygen-robbing algae, its surface increasingly dotted with thousands of dead fish, manatees, birds and other creatures."
Source: AP, 05/05/2017
"The Jersey Shore Would Rather Fight Flooding With Walls Than Retreat"
"The state’s $300 million fund to get coastal homeowners to relocate inland isn’t working."
Source: Bloomberg, 05/05/2017
"EPA: Coal Lobbyist Joins Agency's Congressional Team"
"One of the coal industry's biggest boosters has joined U.S. EPA. Christian Palich, who started this week as a deputy associate administrator in the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, is the former president of the Ohio Coal Association."
Source: Greenwire, 05/05/2017
"Human Noise Pollution 'Pervasive' In U.S. Protected Areas"
"Potentially harmful human-caused noise pollution affects nearly two-thirds of all protected areas in the United States, according to a report released on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 05/05/2017
U.S. Wind Energy Surge: A New Turbine Rises Every 2.4 Hours
"The wind power industry just chalked up its strongest first quarter in eight years. Tax credits play an important role." "Every two and a half hours, workers installed a new wind turbine in the United States during the first quarter of 2017, marking the strongest start for the wind industry in eight years, according to a new report by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) released on May 2."
Source: InsideClimate News, 05/05/2017
Outrage After Flint Sends Foreclosure Warnings Over Tainted-Water Bills
"Thousands of Flint, Mich., residents have been warned that they could lose their homes if they don’t pay outstanding water bills — even as the city has just begun replacing lead-tainted pipes after a contamination crisis linked to a dozen deaths."
Source: Washington Post, 05/05/2017
"U.S. Will Lose Jobs If It Quits Paris Climate Deal: U.N."
"The United States will shoot itself in the foot if it quits the Paris climate accord because China, India and Europe will snap up the best power sector jobs in future, U.N. Environment chief Erik Solheim said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 05/05/2017
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