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TRAIN Act Colossal Waste of Money, Attempt to Delay Regulations
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21.9.2100 |
Union of Concerned Scientists |
| The House is expected to take up a bill today, called the TRAIN Act, which would waste $2 million of taxpayer money by mandating redundant cost-benefit analyses of environmental and health regulations. |
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[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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Colorado testing fish in new push to prevent health harm from toxic “forever chemicals”
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20.9.2020 |
Denver Post: Local |
| The fish testing begun this month reflects an intensified scramble by Colorado public health officials to minimize human health and environmental harm as PFAS chemicals that don't easily break down spread worldwide, with U.S. airports and military bases, where workers used toxic firefighting foam, standing out among the hot spots. |
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[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[chintan :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[sattva_1 :: health]
[sattva_1 :: water]
[dharmesh :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
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Summit fire danger increased to very high as Forest Service reduces restrictions in other parts of Colorado
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18.9.2020 |
Denver Post: Local |
| Be safe out there, campers. |
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[sattva_1 :: flora]
[flenvcenter :: Fire]
[flenvcenter :: National]
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Are this year's wildfires too big for Washington to ignore?
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17.9.2020 |
LA Times: Environment |
| As wildfires continue their path of destruction through the West, Washington is feeling new urgency to rethink the country's land management policies. |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[demo :: Climate change]
[demo :: Forest]
[flenvcenter :: Democrat]
[flenvcenter :: Republican]
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Here’s How Big Farms Got a Big Government Pass on Air Pollution
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16.9.2020 |
Mother Jones |
| This piece was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity. On nice days, Elsie Herring can sink back into her porch rocking chair, enjoying the rural property that’s been in her family since 1891. Other days, the wind carries a foul-smelling mist that chokes Herring and coats the pink siding of her home. It’s […] |
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[flenvcenter :: Air Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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[flenvcenter :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Access]
[flenvcenter :: Local Food Systems]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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[sattva_1 :: air]
[flenvcenter :: Reduce]
[flenvcenter :: Disposal]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: Campaign Contributions]
[newstrust :: Earmarks]
[newstrust :: scandal]
[flenvcenter :: General]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
[flenvcenter :: Social Justice]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[irge304 :: Environmental Justice]
[irge304 :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: Farm Bill]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
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Feds’ plan to allow more drilling in western Colorado nets second lawsuit
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16.9.2020 |
Headlines: All Headlines |
| More conservation groups are suing the Bureau of Land Management over a management plan opening public lands in southwest Colorado to drilling. |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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[newstrust :: Generic]
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[newstrust :: Strategies]
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[demo :: Generic]
[demo :: Agriculture]
[flenvcenter :: Drilling]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[demo :: Organic Agriculture]
[irge304 :: Oil Exploration]
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Column: Conflict over wildfire causes isn't about politics, but science vs. science denial
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15.9.2020 |
LA Times: Business |
| The warming trend afflicting California and the West is indisputable, except to those with minds shut tight. That's President Trump in a nutshell. |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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[sattva_1 :: flora]
[sattva_1 :: awareness]
[flenvcenter :: Climate Policy]
[demo :: Climate change]
[demo :: Forest]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: Climate change]
[newstrust :: Global warming]
[newstrust :: Forest]
[newstrust :: Strategies]
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New Research Shows Disproportionate Rate of Coronavirus Deaths in Polluted Areas
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15.9.2020 |
Mother Jones |
| This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. The industrial plants in the riverside Louisiana city of Port Allen have worried Diana LeBlanc since her children […] |
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[flenvcenter :: Air Policy]
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[sattva_1 :: air]
[flenvcenter :: General]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
[flenvcenter :: Diversity]
[flenvcenter :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[irge304 :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
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Colorado joins lawsuit challenging EPA’s rollback of methane regulations
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15.9.2020 |
Headlines: All Headlines |
| Colorado is joining a coalition of states and cities in a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's rolling back of a federal rule intended to limit emissions of methane and other pollutants from new oil and gas operations. |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Republican]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[flenvcenter :: Republican]
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Policy News: September 14, 2020
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14.9.2020 |
EcoTone |
| In This Issue: Action Alert: Scientific Societies, House Science Committee Push for Research Relief The RISE Act would authorize $26 billion in emergency relief for federal science agencies. Upcoming ESA Webinars ESA will host a webinar with Engineers and Scientists Acting Locally Sept. 30. Congress Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) calls for $55 billion for a ... |
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[flenvcenter :: Climate Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Habitat Protection]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Drilling]
[flenvcenter :: Large-Scale]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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150 million dead trees could fuel unprecedented firestorms in the Sierra Nevada
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13.9.2020 |
LA Times: Environment |
| The explosive Creek fire, fueled by beetle-killed trees, is a hint of the Sierra Nevada's future unless California greatly expands prescribed burns. |
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[flenvcenter :: Fire]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[sattva_1 :: flora]
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Action Alert: Urge Congress to Support Research Relief
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11.9.2020 |
EcoTone |
| Join ESA and 22 other professional societies representing hundreds of thousands of scientists, mathematicians and engineers as part of a collaborative effort to raise awareness of the importance of restoring our academic research enterprise impacted by COVID-19. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS), the impacts on the federal enterprise are far-reaching, resulting in lab ... |
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Multiple wolves and possible pup alive in Colorado after killings over border in Wyoming, wildlife officials say
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11.9.2020 |
Headlines: All Headlines |
| With Colorado voters set to decide whether to order a re-introduction of wolves, wildlife officials using cameras and "howl surveys" say they've regularly detected multiple wolves in the northwestern part of the state -- possibly including a pup from a newly-arrived pack. |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: Legislation]
[irge304 :: Legislation]
[flenvcenter :: National]
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Trump EPA Guts Tough Standards for Toxic Metals Dumped Into Us Waterways by Coal-Fired Power Plants, Including Biggest Polluter on Lake Michigan
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11.9.2020 |
Organic Consumers Association News Headlines |
| Towering above Lake Michigan north of the Wisconsin border, the Oak Creek coal-fired power plant is one of the largest sources of toxic metals dumped into American waterways. Only six other power plants nationwide released more arsenic, lead, mercury and other metals into lakes and rivers last year, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis of federal records. |
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[flenvcenter :: Art and Literature]
[flenvcenter :: Coal]
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Chicago announces plan to start replacing lead water pipes after decades of denying the dangers
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10.9.2020 |
Chicago Tribune: Popular |
| Next year the city estimates it will replace 750 of the roughly 400,000 lead service lines connecting homes to street mains, according to slides prepared by the water department. |
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[sattva_1 :: energy]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
[demo :: Coal]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[irge304 :: Clean Coal]
[flenvcenter :: Irrigation]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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The Spin: In Chicago, AG Barr credits feds' for cutting crime, but Mayor Lightfoot says that’s ‘factually inaccurate’ | New poll shows Biden slightly ahead of Trump in battleground Wisconsin | Trump EPA guts tough standards for biggest polluter on Lake Michigan
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10.9.2020 |
Chicago Tribune: Popular |
| Welcome to The Spin, the Chicago Tribune's politics newsletter. |
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[demo :: Coal]
[sattva_1 :: energy]
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Trump EPA guts tough standards for toxic metals dumped into U.S. waterways by coal-fired power plants, including biggest polluter on Lake Michigan
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9.9.2020 |
Chicago Tribune: Popular |
| Benefits for energy companies would come at the expense of more than 20 million Americans who drink water and eat fish from lakes and rivers polluted by coal plant discharges, documents show. |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[sattva_1 :: energy]
[demo :: Coal]
[irge304 :: Coal Mining]
[flenvcenter :: Coal]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
[irge304 :: Green Power]
[irge304 :: Environmental Justice]
[irge304 :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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Booming Front Range cities take first steps to build $500 million dam, reservoir near Holy Cross Wilderness
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6.9.2020 |
Denver Post: News: Local |
| Aurora and Colorado Springs are planning to flood these wetland fens and replace natural storage with a man-made system: a $500 million dam and a reservoir that may require changing wilderness boundaries. |
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[newstrust :: Species Loss]
[newstrust :: Conservation Efforts]
[newstrust :: Wildlife Protection]
[sattva_1 :: flora]
[flenvcenter :: Rivers]
[flenvcenter :: Grazing]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Birds]
[sattva_1 :: water]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
[flenvcenter :: Reservoirs]
[flenvcenter :: Wetlands]
[flenvcenter :: Water Treatment]
[flenvcenter :: Colorado River]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Birds]
[irge304 :: Species Loss]
[irge304 :: Conservation Efforts]
[irge304 :: Wildlife Protection]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
[flenvcenter :: Reservoirs]
[flenvcenter :: Wetlands]
[flenvcenter :: Water Treatment]
[flenvcenter :: Colorado River]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Grazing]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[demo :: Housing]
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Trump Is Trying to Greenwash His Appalling Environmental Record Before the Election
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5.9.2020 |
Mother Jones |
| This article was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. During a May 2018 roundtable with more than two dozen outdoor sporting and conservation organizations, after more than a year of leading the Trump administration’s fossil fuel-centric “energy dominance” push, then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke promised to make a “grand […] |
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[newstrust :: Housing]
[irge304 :: Oil Exploration]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[irge304 :: Wildlife Protection]
[irge304 :: National Parks]
[irge304 :: Legislation]
[sattva_1 :: air]
[sattva_1 :: energy]
[newstrust :: Campaign Contributions]
[newstrust :: scandal]
[sattva_1 :: flora]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: General]
[flenvcenter :: Mining]
[flenvcenter :: Drilling]
[flenvcenter :: Utah]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: Wildlife Protection]
[newstrust :: National Parks]
[newstrust :: Legislation]
[flenvcenter :: Republican]
[demo :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: Mammals]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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White people have gentrified Black Lives Matter. It's a problem
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4.9.2020 |
LA Times: Opinion |
| When the dust has settled and the TV cameras are gone, will white solidarity with black lives endure? History suggests skepticism. |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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