"The United States and Canada have reached an agreement in principle on modernizing a 60-year-old pact on Columbia River flood control and power generation, and work on draft amendments will begin in the coming weeks, they said on Thursday."
"As the event opens with a focus on energy, former President Trump and other leaders are calling for more oil, gas and coal development."
"Only days after the Supreme Court dealt a blow to the federal government’s program placing human observers on commercial fishing boats, a federal watchdog said NOAA Fisheries should do a better job monitoring the industry."
"When Bill Keener started working at the Marine Mammal Center as a field biologist in the 1970s, there were no whales or dolphins in San Francisco Bay. ... Starting in the late 2000s, things began to change."
"The latest flooding in Vermont has added fresh urgency to concerns about the hundreds of dams in the state, a third of which are more than a century old."
"In a first of its kind decision, a Maryland judge on Wednesday tossed Baltimore City’s climate suit against major oil giants on the grounds that it is not the role of the state courts to address a global issue like climate change."
"Lawmakers approved spending bills for agriculture this week, but bickered over environmental regulations and the lack of progress on the bill."
"The industry-backed measure to protect fossil gas looks to have received enough signatures to appear on the ballot in November."
"Almost a dozen U.S. auto factories will collectively receive $1.7 billion from the Biden administration to retool themselves to make electric vehicles."
"The Sunrise Movement, the youth-led climate organization that helped elect President Biden, is now calling on him to quit the race for the White House."
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