"State: Flint’s Water Quality Continues To Improve"
"State officials say the latest round of sampling in Flint provides more evidence that the water quality is improving in the city’s troubled pipeline system."
Source: Detroit News, 06/14/2016
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"Senate Sends Pipeline Safety Bill To Obama"
"The Senate on Monday unanimously passed a bill to reauthorize the federal pipeline safety oversight board, sending the measure to President Obama for his signature."
Source: The Hill, 06/14/2016
"Dawn Of The 'Dead Zone': NOAA Releases Gulf Of Mexico Forecast"
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts that the dead zone in the Gulf, an area incapable of supporting marine life, will be much the same size it's been for the past several years."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 06/14/2016
"Here's Really Where Zika Mosquitoes Are Likely In The U.S."
A new map from the Centers for Disease Control pictures a more limited extent in the U.S. for the Aedes aegypti mosquitos thought to be the main culprit in spreading the Zika virus. Still, it highlights some surprising areas of risk -- like Washington, DC."
Source: NPR, 06/14/2016
Idaho Superfund Site Is Still a Toxic Mess, With Legacy of Suffering
Dust and emissions from an Idaho smelter left a legacy of lead poisoning among a generation of children near what is now a Superfund site.
Source: Newsweek, 06/14/2016
"Desert Race Through Nevada Monument Under Fire"
"Conservationists are asking the White House Council on Environmental Quality to put the brakes on plans to allow a popular off-road, desert race from near Las Vegas to Reno to run through a newly established national monument in southern Nevada."
Source: AP, 06/14/2016
"Trump Revokes Washington Post's Campaign Press Credentials"
"U.S. Republican Donald Trump said on Monday he will no longer issue press credentials to the Washington Post, stopping the publication from gaining access to press areas at his presidential campaign events."
Source: Reuters, 06/14/2016
"Landmark Water Transfer Creates Environmental Wasteland"
"IMPERIAL COUNTY, Calif. -- The Salton Sea has gone from a midcentury vacation spot for movie stars to a post-apocalyptic desert with mounds of dead fish here, gurgling 'mud pots' there, blasts from a military bombing range on the horizon and sulfuric stench everywhere."
Source: Greenwire, 06/14/2016
"Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Obama Mercury Air Pollution Rule"
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned aside the latest effort by a group of states led by Michigan to block Obama administration environmental regulations limiting power plant emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants."
Source: Reuters, 06/14/2016
"On Kodiak Island, Flywheels Are In And Diesel Is 99.8% Out"
"Darron Scott, CEO of the Kodiak Electric Association, unlocked the door to a small building on a gravel road along Chiniak Bay and pointed to two innocuous metal boxes tucked into a corner beyond a bank of computers. 'Those are the flywheels,' Scott said, turning on a computer screen to follow the ebb and flow of the system's electrical output."
Source: EnergyWire, 06/13/2016
