Energy and Environment: President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans

President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans; The coming battle between the Trump team and economists over the true cost of climate change; Trump’s pick for Interior secretary can’t seem to make up his mind about climate change; Energy Department backs huge Louisiana project to store carbon dioxide in the ground; Trump says energy regulations are hurting economic growth. The evidence says otherwise.; Outgoing EPA chief: Science is 'fundamental to absolutely everything we do.'; Four more officials charged with felonies in Flint water crisis; These two sentences could hint at the next threat to climate science under Trump; Trump team asks State Dept. what it spends on international environmental efforts; El Niño on a warming planet may have sparked the Zika epidemic, scientists report; The Energy Department helped start a revolution – and doesn't know who to hand it off to; The electoral college is thwarting our ability to battle global warming; Interior adopts controversial last-minute rule to make the coal industry cleaner; Democrats call for special counsel to probe Trump team’s focus on climate scientists; Scientists confirm that warm ocean water is melting the biggest glacier in East Antarctica; How California’s water wars divided one of the closest friendships in Congress;   With Chris Mooney   President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans Sources say U.S. and Canadian officials will reach a joint understanding on how to make the new protections as sweeping and politically durable as possible. By Darryl Fears and Juliet Eilperin  •  Read more » The coming battle between the Trump team and economists over the true cost of climate change It all comes down to a metric known as the social cost of carbon. By Chelsea Harvey  •  Read more »   Trump’s pick for Interior secretary can’t seem to make up his mind about climate change Ryan Zinke seemed to take climate change seriously -- back in 2010. By Chelsea Harvey  •  Read more »   Energy Department backs huge Louisiana project to store carbon dioxide in the ground The project, with a conditional $ 2 billion federal loan guarantee, would store carbon dioxide from the process of making methanol. By Chris Mooney  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Trump says energy regulations are hurting economic growth. The evidence says otherwise. We're entering a world in which economic growth is 'decouplin' from greenhouse gas emissions -- so one can rise without the other. By Vivek Wadhwa and Mark Muro  •  Read more »   Outgoing EPA chief: Science is 'fundamental to absolutely everything we do.' Gina McCarthy mulls the agency's work during the Obama years and how that may be upended by the Trump administration. By Brady Dennis  •  Read more »   Four more officials charged with felonies in Flint water crisis Investigators stress that their probe is not finished. By Brady Dennis  •  Read more »   These two sentences could hint at the next threat to climate science under Trump The political gap between scientists and members of the GOP is growing vast. By Chris Mooney  •  Read more »   Trump team asks State Dept. what it spends on international environmental efforts It is the latest sign that the incoming administration aims to reassess environmental and climate agreements. By Juliet Eilperin and Carol Morello  •  Read more »   El Niño on a warming planet may have sparked the Zika epidemic, scientists report A new disease model produced an unusually high disease transmission potential in the tropics for the year 2015, including in Colombia and Brazil, the countries hit hardest by Zika. By Chelsea Harvey  •  Read more »   The Energy Department helped start a revolution – and doesn't know who to hand it off to Costs for wind and solar have plunged by 40 and 60 percent since 2008. But the Trump administration wants to pursue fossil fuels. By Chris Mooney  •  Read more »   The electoral college is thwarting our ability to battle global warming The college has elected four U.S. presidents who clearly lost the popular vote. Two of those elections occurred during the period in which we have known about climate change. By Todd Cort  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Interior adopts controversial last-minute rule to make the coal industry cleaner The Obama administration's parting action, coming after seven years of work on new regulations, is likely to anger coal companies, Republican lawmakers and the incoming Trump administration. By Darryl Fears  •  Read more »   Democrats call for special counsel to probe Trump team’s focus on climate scientists A questionnaire had been sent by the Trump transition team to the Department of Energy, asking for names of "employees or contractors" who attended United Nations climate change meetings under President Obama. By Chris Mooney  •  Read more »   Scientists confirm that warm ocean water is melting the biggest glacier in East Antarctica Scientists have now put together all the pieces to confirm that the enormous Totten glacier is losing mass rapidly, and the ocean is responsible. By Chris Mooney  •  Read more »   How California’s water wars divided one of the closest friendships in Congress Legislation to allow water in a river delta where fish stocks are depleted to be diverted to farms has divided California Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. By Darryl Fears  •  Read more »   Recommended for you   To Your Health Health news and research, in your inbox weekly. Sign Up »         Share Energy and Environment:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you signed up for Energy and Environment. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2016 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071