"Superfund: 'Silent Spring' Comes" To Life in DDT-Stricken Town"
"For years, when spring rolled around in St. Louis, Mich., songbirds dropped to the ground, dead."
Source: Greenwire, 02/06/2017
Search results
Regulations: House Scraps Methane Standards After Senate Kills SEC Rule
"The House [Friday] today voted to scrap a Bureau of Land Management rule that seeks to curb greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas flaring, venting and leakage on public and tribal lands."
Source: Greenwire, 02/06/2017
GOP Hurries to Slash Oil and Gas Rules, Ending Industries’ 8-Year Wait
"The document carried the title 'A Roadmap to Repeal,' a concise list of Obama administration environmental regulations that a Koch brothers-backed group was pressing President Trump and Congress to quickly reverse after Inauguration Day."
Source: NY Times, 02/06/2017
GOP Using Big Tobacco’s Secret Science Playbook to Gut Health Rules
"On Tuesday, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is expected to hold a hearing on a bill to undermine health regulations that is based on a strategy cooked up by tobacco industry strategists more than two decades ago."
Source: The Intercept, 02/06/2017
DEADLINE: IWMF Howard G. Buffet Fund for Women Journalists
Promoting the work and advancing the role of women in the news media across the globe is critical to transparency and a diversity of voices. This funding initiative enables the International Women's Media Foundation to dramatically expand its support of women journalists reporting on issues of global importance that are typically under-reported. Deadline for 2019 round two: Sep 5.
"The EPA Has Started to Remove Obama-Era Information"
"The Environmental Protection Agency’s website has begun to transform under the Trump administration. A group of researchers have found what are likely the first steps in a major overhaul of a site that’s been closely watched since President Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Federal climate plans created under former President Obama, tribal assistance programs, and references to international cooperation have been stricken from the site."
Source: Climate Central, 02/03/2017
Utah Rep. Chaffetz Withdraws Bill To Transfer Federal Land To States
"Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) withdrew legislation Thursday that would have transferred 3 million acres of land from federal to state ownership, citing objections from constituents who complained that the move would limit access to public hunting and fishing grounds."
Source: Washington Post, 02/03/2017
"Standing Rock Tribe Braces for Next Round of Dakota Pipeline Battle"
"Following President Trump's directive to the Army Corps to approve Dakota Access permit, opponents prepare legal fight over environmental impact."
Source: InsideClimate News, 02/03/2017
"Drought-Easing California Snow Heaviest In 22 Years"
"Clambering through a snowy meadow with drifts up to the tree branches, California's water managers measured the state's vital Sierra Nevada snowpack Thursday at a drought-busting and welcome 173 percent of average."
Source: AP, 02/03/2017
"Judge Supports Plan For Expanding Au Sable River Trout Farm"
"A state judge has sided with a northern Michigan fish growing company that wants to dramatically increase production of rainbow trout on the Au Sable River, turning aside objections that the expansion would pollute the prized waterway."
Source: AP, 02/03/2017
Advertisement 
