"A Legacy of Environmental Racism"
"Exxon Mobil Is Still Pumping Toxins into Black Community in Texas 17 Years After Civil Rights Complaint"
Source: The Intercept, 08/14/2017
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Wildfires Destroy Prairies; Montana’s Cowboys Weigh Federal Help
"SAND SPRINGS, Mont. — In this part of Montana’s rugged eastern prairie, Erwin Weder and the other ranchers and cowboys are not used to feeling kicked around. But as Weder drives his pickup truck onto a bluff to gaze out over “Big Sky Country,” he feels a bit defeated."
Source: Washington Post, 08/14/2017
"The West’s Latest Mining Frenzy? Extraterrestrial Gold."
"Companies are hunting for lithium near Moab, Utah." "White Oil, Oro Blanco, Extraterrestrial Gold: lithium, the lightweight element key to rechargeable batteries, has recently acquired a slew of hyperbolic nicknames. As the demand for electric cars, laptops and smartphones has surged, the search is on for more domestic sources of this energy-critical element."
Source: High Country News, 08/14/2017
"Trump Has No Science Adviser. Will That Politicize Climate?"
"Federal scientists might feel as if their parents are out of town. In the Trump White House, there isn't a presidential science adviser to oversee a major report on climate change."
Source: ClimateWire, 08/14/2017
"Wilderness: It's Neighbor vs. Neighbor In War Over Mine"
"ELY, Minn. — It is high season in the Boundary Waters, when legions of canoe-carrying trucks transform this small outpost 20 miles from Canada into one of the nation's primary gateways to wilderness recreation."
Source: Greenwire, 08/14/2017
"U.S. and Mexico Finalizing Colorado River Deal"
"The U.S. and Mexican governments may be sharply at odds on President Donald Trump's plan for a border wall, but when it comes to water – and the potential for a major shortage along the Colorado River – the two sides seem to be on the same page."
Source: Palm Springs Desert Sun, 08/14/2017
"EPA: Press Club 'Looking Into' N.D. Reporter Incident"
"The National Press Club is expressing concern about a reported dust-up this week between a spokesman for U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and a journalist in North Dakota."
Source: Greenwire, 08/14/2017
"Scott Pruitt Is Carrying Out His EPA Agenda in Secret, Critics Say"
"When career employees of the Environmental Protection Agency are summoned to a meeting with the agency’s administrator, Scott Pruitt, at agency headquarters, they no longer can count on easy access to the floor where his office is, according to interviews with employees of the federal agency."
Source: NY Times, 08/14/2017
"A War Over Wolves"
"By a slow slide of river deep in Washington’s wolf country, Robert Wielgus laughs at the tattoo on his arm of Four Claws, the grizzly that almost killed him. “I would rather face charging grizzly bears trying to kill me than politicians and university administrators, because it is over quickly,” said Wielgus, director of the Large Carnivore Conservation Lab at Washington State University."
Source: Seattle Times, 08/11/2017
"Texas Cuts Aid To 'Colonias' After Years Of Offering Help"
"While the economy in Texas has boomed over the last 20 years, along the border with Mexico about a half million people live in clusters of cinderblock dwellings, home-built shacks, dilapidated trailers and small houses."
Source: AP, 08/11/2017
