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  • Interior Department Greenlights Eagle-Killing Wyoming Wind Project

    Published March 15, 2017
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    Just three days before being replaced by the Trump administration, the Obama administration gave final approval for the construction of a Wyoming wind power project that, if completed, will be the largest wind power facility in North America.

  • Trump Executive Order Stops Last-Minute Obama Pool-Pump Rule

    Published March 14, 2017
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    Incoming President Donald Trump thwarted a last-minute attempt by the Obama administration to place a new restriction on an obscure consumer product: swimming pool pumps.

  • Fossil-Fuel Divestment Is Fiscally Irresponsible, Study Finds

    Published March 10, 2017
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    University endowments and public employee pension funds that heed environmentalists’ calls to divest their holdings from companies in the fossil-fuel industry impose substantial costs on the donors, employees, and taxpayers funding them, a new study shows

  • Pruitt Appointment Signals Big Changes at EPA

    Published March 9, 2017
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    President Donald Trump’s appointment of Scott Pruitt as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicates big changes are in store for the agency and the businesses, states, and people affected by its rules.

  • Minnesota Peat Mine Wins Wetlands Case Against Army Corps of Engineers

    Published March 8, 2017
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    A federal judge in Minnesota ruled a peat mining company did not need a wetlands permit from the Army Corps of Engineers or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand its operations onto adjacent private property.

  • Reform the National Flood Insurance Program, Report Recommends

    Published March 7, 2017
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    A study by SmarterSafer.org recommends reforming the National Flood Insurance Program to reduce future risks associated with the flooding of property and minimize flood damage when it occurs.

  • EPA May Pull California’s Clean Air Standards Waiver

    Published March 6, 2017
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    Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has hinted EPA may end a decades-old federal waiver that allows California to set emissions standards stricter than elsewhere in the United States.

  • Hunters, Anglers Object to Last-Minute Lead Ban

    Published March 3, 2017
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    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a directive to phase out the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle within the nation’s wildlife refuges and other federal lands controlled by the agency by 2022.

  • States Consider Laws to Penalize Violent Anti-Pipeline Protests

    Published March 2, 2017
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    Lawmakers in eight states have introduced bills designed to deter anti-fossil fuel protestors from damaging property, injuring bystanders, and blocking traffic.

  • Kasich Proposes Raising Ohio’s Oil and Gas Taxes

    Published March 1, 2017
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    Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) has offered a proposal that would raise taxes on oil and gas production in the state to help fund a partial income tax cut.

  • EPA Resists Court Order Requiring Assessment of Job Losses

    Published February 28, 2017
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    A federal judge has ruled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is required by law to determine how many coal mining and coal power plant jobs its emissions regulations have eliminated.

  • Government Scientists Violated Rules to Influence Climate Negotiations

    Published February 27, 2017
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    A whistleblower at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported leading NOAA climate scientist Tom Karl violated the agency’s rules by rushing to publish untested and unconfirmed data.

  • A Roadmap for Clexit

    Published February 24, 2017
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    Clexit clearly shows constraining low-cost energy, as the Paris Agreement requires, would ensure billions of people in developing countries continue to endure starvation, disease, and misery.

  • Electric Power Deregulation Has Saved Public Billions of Dollars, Study Shows

    Published February 23, 2017
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    States with restructured electric power markets where consumers and businesses have some choice of electric power providers have saved the country more than $3 billion in energy costs annually.

  • Californians Sue to Remove Gray Wolf from State’s Endangered Species List

    Published February 22, 2017
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    California Farmers and Ranchers have sued the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife claiming its listing of the gray wolf as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act was illegal.

  • Missouri Congressman Proposes Blocking U.S. Funding for U.N. Climate Programs

    Published February 20, 2017
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    U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would bar all U.S. contributions to U.N. climate initiatives and programs.

  • North Carolina Lawmakers Urge Trump to Scuttle or Restrict Wind Project

    Published February 17, 2017
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    A group of North Carolina lawmakers has asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to halt the operations of the Amazon Wind Farm U.S. East (Amazon East) wind-power installation in northeastern North Carolina.

  • Maryland Increases State’s Renewable Energy Mandate, Overrides Governor’s Veto

    Published February 16, 2017
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    The Maryland state legislature overrode Gov. Larry Hogan’s (R) veto of a bill to raise and accelerate mandated increases in the use of renewable energy in the state.

  • Early Actions Show Trump is Serious About Climate, Energy Policy Reform

    Published February 16, 2017
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    Early actions taken by President Donald Trump indicate he intends to keep his campaign promises to reduce regulations from and funding for the Environmental Protection Agency.

  • Net-Metering Policies Under Fire Early, Often in 2017

    Published February 15, 2017
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    In January, state legislators introduced bills in Indiana, Minnesota, and Montana to reform their respective states’ renewable-energy policies, including net metering and solar-energy subsidies.

  • Michigan Increases its Renewable Energy Mandate

    Published February 15, 2017
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    In late December 2016, Michigan’s legislature expanded the state’s renewable energy mandate, requiring electric power providers to ensure 15 percent of the power they deliver in 2021 comes from renewable sources, up from 10 percent under the previous law.

  • Feds Grant Wind-Energy Industry 30-Year Eagle Kill Permits

    Published February 13, 2017
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    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a rule exempting wind-energy companies from prosecution under the Golden and Bald Eagle Protection Act for unintentionally killing eagles, up to a predetermined amount every year.

  • Fishing Groups, Towns Sue to Block Offshore Windfarm

    Published February 10, 2017
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    Commercial fishing companies, trade groups, and seaport communities in four states are fighting against the development of a massive offshore windfarm planned to be built in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Natural Resources Defense Council: The Scaremongering Chemophobe-in-Chief

    Published February 9, 2017
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    The Natural Resources Defense Council is one of the largest, most politically influential environmental scaremongering groups pushing bans on modern chemicals and fossil fuel use.

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