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Supreme Court Weighs Lawsuit Pitting Climate Scientist Against Skeptics

"The Supreme Court on Friday will consider whether to take up a prominent climatologist's defamation suit against a venerated conservative magazine, in a case that pits climate scientists against the free speech rights of global warming skeptics."

Source: The Hill, 11/22/2019

New Trump DOI Plan Could Boost Oil Drilling On Remote Alaska Reserve

"The Trump administration announced a plan Thursday that could allow oil drilling on over three-quarters of the nation’s largest piece of unprotected wilderness, overhauling a 2013 plan that limited development on the Alaskan reserve."

Source: Washington Post, 11/22/2019

Trump EPA Scales Back Safety Rules Adopted After Deadly Chemical Blast

"The Environmental Protection Agency weakened a rule Thursday governing how companies store dangerous chemicals. The standards were enacted under President Barack Obama in the wake of a 2013 explosion in West, Tex., that killed 15 people, including 12 first responders."

Source: Washington Post, 11/22/2019

"‘Dark Waters’ Faces Inconvenient Truth of Environmental Activism"

"Actor-producer Mark Ruffalo is ... trying to translate film into political activism with Friday’s theatrical release of his Dark Waters, based on lawyer Rob Bilott’s years-long fight to hold DuPont Co. accountable for chemical contamination that a West Virginia farmer believed was killing his cattle."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/21/2019

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