"GOP Votes Down Funding For Global Climate Fund"
"The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted down a Democratic push to allow federal spending on an international climate change program."
Source: The Hill, 07/13/2016
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"Climate: Group Promises To Hold Line Against GOP Document Requests"
"The Union of Concerned Scientists will continue to object to House Republicans' requests for documents and communications on climate change, the nonprofit group's president said."
Source: E&E Daily, 07/13/2016
"UN: Figueres' Rivals For Secretary-General Ring In On Climate Change"
"Former U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres isn't the only contender for secretary-general who has already made climate change a central theme of her vision for the United Nations' future."
Source: ClimateWire, 07/13/2016
"Senators Target The ‘Many-Headed Dragon’ Of Climate Change Denial"
"Lawmakers are calling out companies they say engaged in a 'sophisticated and deceitful campaign' to mislead the public."
Source: Huffington Post, 07/13/2016
"Senate War Escalates Over Zika"
"Senate Democrats are making a last-ditch effort to resuscitate a measure providing funding to combat the Zika virus, but Republicans have already panned their offer — escalating the partisan blame game as Congress prepares to leave for a summer recess without finishing a Zika bill."
Source: Politico, 07/13/2016
"California Seeks To Extend Landmark Climate-Change Effort"
"California's landmark cap-and-trade program to fight climate-changing pollution from fossil fuels would survive long past Gov. Jerry Brown's time in office under a state proposal Tuesday."
Source: AP, 07/13/2016
"Environmentalists, Utilities Eye Richmond Coal Ash Trial"
"Dirtier rivers or higher electric prices. That's what environmentalists and utility officials say is at stake in an upcoming federal court ruling in Virginia could have far-reaching effects on how energy companies dispose of coal ash waste left over from decades of burning coal. Spurred by high-profile coal ash spills and new federal regulations, utilities are grappling with the disposal of vast amounts of the heavy-metal-laced waste."
Source: AP, 07/13/2016
"Dead Seas: Great Salt Lake Faces Ruin"
"SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- For a long time, the lake that lends its name to this city was taken for granted by most here and treated as a sewer by some of the nation's biggest polluters."
Source: Greenwire, 07/12/2016
"White House Threatens To Veto EPA, Interior Spending Bill"
"The Obama administration is threatening to veto a 2017 spending bill for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Interior Department."
Source: The Hill, 07/12/2016
"Global Cloud Coverage Shifting in Ominous Sign of Climate Change"
"We didn’t know enough about clouds until now. What a new study reveals is bad news."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/12/2016
