"Feds To Expand Review Of Emissions Standards For Cars"
"The Trump administration is expanding its review of greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars."
Source: The Hill, 08/11/2017
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"Polluter Fines Drop 60 Percent Under Trump"
"The Trump administration has collected 60 percent less from civil penalties for environmental wrongdoing than the administrations of presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton did on average in their first six months in office."
Source: Washington Post, 08/11/2017
"How Climate Change Became A Question Of Faith"
"Every four years, the nation’s scientists from myriad federal agencies come together to release a comprehensive report synthesizing the current state of climate science. It’s become a routine affair, with a predictable process involving extensive analysis of studies, numerous drafts, and eventual approval from the White House before the public release of the latest National Climate Assessment. But this year was different."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 08/10/2017
Climate Report Could Force Trump to Choose Between Science and His Base
"The impending release of a key government report on climate change will force President Trump to choose between accepting the conclusions of his administration’s scientists and the demands of his conservative supporters, who remain deeply unconvinced that humans are the cause of the planet’s warming."
Source: NY Times, 08/10/2017
Trump’s Border Wall Would Slice Through Wildlife Refuges In Texas
"On dusty land in Mission, Tex., near the Mexican border, Marianna Trevino Wright recently took a walk with a contractor. She was showing off her effort to turn the earth surrounding the National Butterfly Center into 'an oasis for butterflies,' she said — with 10,000 native milkweed plants that a dwindling number of monarch butterflies use as habitat in their arduous and yearly migration from Mexico and across the United States to Canada."
Source: Washington Post, 08/09/2017
"Trump Might Start an Ethanol Trade War With Brazil"
"President Donald Trump’s America First rhetoric is doing no favors for U.S. ethanol producers, who are hoping to avoid a trade fight with fuel buyers in Brazil."
Source: Bloomberg, 08/09/2017
"Nuclear Agency Begins Work To Consider Yucca Mountain Site"
"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is taking steps to review the planned revival of the long-dormant nuclear waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain."
Source: AP, 08/09/2017
"US Scientists Contradict Trump’s Climate Claims"
"As President Donald Trump touts new oil pipelines and pledges to revive the nation’s struggling coal mines, federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep increase in the United States of heat waves, droughts and floods."
Source: AP, 08/09/2017
Ag Department Is Censoring Use Of Term 'Climate Change', Emails Reveal
"Staff at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been told to avoid using the term climate change in their work, with the officials instructed to reference 'weather extremes' instead."
Source: Guardian, 08/08/2017
Scrapping Climate Protections Would Erase $300 Billion in Benefits
"The Trump administration has been systematically dismantling the nation's climate change regulations, often claiming a high cost of compliance as justification. But a new study says keeping those rules would actually save nearly $300 billion a year by 2030."
Source: InsideClimate News, 08/08/2017
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