"Flint E-Mails: CDC Voiced Concerns Over Legionnaires' Actions"
"More than eight months before Gov. Rick Snyder disclosed a deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak in the Flint area, federal health officials worried a lack of cooperation in Michigan could be...
View Article"Trans-Pacific Partnership Signed, Critics Cry ‘Toxic’"
"The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement was signed Thursday in Auckland, New Zealand by officials from 12 nations from around the Pacific Rim that together account for nearly 40 percent of the...
View Article"City Fails To Warn Chicagoans About Lead Risks In Tap Water"
"More than two years after federal researchers found high levels of lead in homes where water mains had been replaced or new meters installed, city officials still do little to caution Chicagoans about...
View Article"A Shot in the Dark"
"In hopes of saving one owl species, scientists are killing another."Source: ,
View Article"Liquid Assets"
"A maverick hedge fund manager thinks Wall Street is the answer to the water crisis in the West."Source: ,
View Article"Occupiers At Oregon Refuge Say They'll Turn Themselves In"
"The last four armed occupiers of a national wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon said they would turn themselves in Thursday morning after law officers surrounded them in a tense standoff."Source: ,
View ArticleSupreme Court’s Climate Stay May Imperil Paris Climate Accord
"The Supreme Court’s surprise decision Tuesday to halt the carrying out of President Obama’s climate change regulation could weaken or even imperil the international global warming accord reached with...
View Article"House Passes Bill Requiring EPA Actions On Lead-Laced Water"
"The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday easily passed a bill requiring federal environmental regulators to act faster when lead contamination is found in drinking water."Source: ,
View Article"James River Association To Challenge Dominion Coal Ash Permit"
"The James River Association says they will challenge a permit issued by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to Dominion Virginia Power last month, which will allow the discharge of 350...
View Article"Maine Rail Cargo Secrecy Law Bypassed Public Access, Safety Defenses"
"After a runaway oil train killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, just miles from the Maine border in 2013, Mainers demanded to know more about the state’s railways."Source: ,
View Article"Obama On Supreme Court Climate Ruling: 'Don't Despair'"
"President Barack Obama told supporters 'don't despair' and overreact to the Supreme Court's decision this week that temporarily blocks the administration's rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from...
View Article"With FBI Ring Tightening, Last Oregon Occupiers Give Up"
"With the FBI tightening its ring around them, the last four holdouts in the armed takeover of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered Thursday, ending a 41-day standoff that left one man dead...
View Article"Group Questions Peabody Energy's Coal Mine Self-Bonding"
"An environmental group is formally questioning Peabody Energy's ability to fully bond its coal mines in Wyoming and elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain region, saying the St. Louis-based company has...
View ArticleShocking Truth About America's Ethanol Law: It Doesn't Matter (For Now)
Gasoline refiners would blend ethanol into fuel even if the Congressionally-passed law and EPA rules didn't require it. The reason: it's needed to boost the octane rating that makes cars perform...
View Article"Ex-Exec Sentenced To 1 Month In West Virginia Chemical Spill"
"A former Freedom Industries executive was sentenced Thursday to one month in federal prison for a chemical spill that fouled the drinking water supply of 300,000 West Virginians."Source: ,
View ArticleObama Creates 3 New Calif. Desert Monuments, Protects 1.8 Million Acres
"President Obama designated three new national monuments in the California desert Thursday, expanding federal protection to 1.8 million acres of landscapes that have retained their natural beauty...
View Article"Supreme Court Nomination Process Sure To Be An Epic Debate"
"White House officials began sifting through their pool of potential nominees for the newly vacant seat on the nation’s highest court Sunday, girding for battle with Republicans who are insisting that...
View Article"Michigan Legionnaires' Deaths Were Preventable, Official Says"
"Residents of Flint, Michigan, began getting gravely ill and in some cases dying in summer 2014 in one of the worst outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease in U.S. history, and a county health director says...
View Article"DOE Proposes Light Bulb Standard"
"DOE issued a proposed rule [Friday]afternoon for light bulbs that would likely lead to the phaseout of compact fluorescent lights (CFLs), analysts say."Source: ,
View Article"Gov. Scott Walker Orders Agencies Not To Prepare For Clean Power Plan"
"Citing last week's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Monday ordered state agencies not to do any work to prepare for federal climate change regulations that would...
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