"EPA: Pruitt Faces Chilly Staff Reception"
"U.S. EPA employees are abuzz today about President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be their new boss, and many of them are wary."
Source: Greenwire, 12/09/2016
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IJNR's Great Lakes Water Compact Workshop
The Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources will bring a group of journalists to Waukesha, the first U.S. city outside of the Great Lakes watershed to receive permission to withdraw water under the Great Lakes Compact, to see how the city will get water from Lake Michigan, treat it and send it back to the basin while also discussing its bigger-picture impacts. Apply ASAP; space is limited.
Mass. AG Appeals Exxon Ruling, Wants New Judge to Throw Out Case
"Saying she does not believe a Texas judge has considered her arguments, Massachusetts AG Maura Healey files an appeal to halt her questioning by ExxonMobil lawyers."
Source: InsideClimate News, 12/09/2016
"Offshore Wind Project to Go Live as Industry Eyes Trump"
"In a few days, the water-bound wind turbines off of Rhode Island’s Block Island are expected to generate electricity commercially for the first time, and New Englanders are set to become the first in U.S. history to use electric power generated from an offshore wind turbine."
Source: Climate Central, 12/09/2016
"Amid Fears Of Trump Cutback, NASA Announces Long-Term Climate Mission"
"Could this be push-back from an agency anticipating cuts? Could the Trump administration dismantle GeoCARB?"
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 12/09/2016
"Washington State Sues Monsanto Over PCB Damages, Cleanup Costs"
"Washington state filed an environmental lawsuit on Thursday against agricultural company Monsanto Co seeking damages and cleanup costs associated with the company's production of PCBs, the state's attorney general said."
Source: Reuters, 12/09/2016
"Japan Nearly Doubles Fukushima Disaster-Related Cost To $188 Billion"
"Japan's government on Friday nearly doubled its projections for costs related to the Fukushima nuclear disaster to 21.5 trillion yen ($188 billion), increasing pressure on Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) (9501.T) to step up reform and improve its performance."
Source: Reuters, 12/09/2016
"Polar Vortex Redux? U.S. Forecasters Say It Could Hit Next Week"
"Forecasters are sending chills down some spines with a prediction that much of the northern half of the United States could see frigid weather next week similar to life-threatening lows the polar vortex brought to parts of the country in 2014."
Source: Reuters, 12/09/2016
Trump's EPA Pick May Struggle To Dismantle Obama's Environmental Legacy
"Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump's pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has fought President Barack Obama’s measures to curb climate change at every turn as attorney general of Oklahoma. Now he is hoping to take apart Obama's environmental legacy from the inside out, a task that could prove tougher than it sounds."
Source: Reuters, 12/09/2016
Clean Energy ‘Moving Forward’ Despite Trump’s E.P.A. Pick, Experts Say
"President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice of a fossil-fuel advocate and climate-change denier to head the Environmental Protection Agency comes at a moment when the American energy market has already shifted away from the most polluting fossil fuels, driven more by investors and economics than by federal regulations."
Source: NY Times, 12/09/2016
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