Thursday 22 June 2017

Energy and Environment: EPA just gave notice to dozens of scientific advisory board members that their time is up

EPA just gave notice to dozens of scientific advisory board members that their time is up; Why Saudi Arabia’s quest to prop up oil prices is failing; Scientists predict a Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ the size of New Jersey this summer; Zinke defends huge job cuts at Interior: ‘This is what a balanced budget looks like.’; A massive and unprecedented coral bleaching event may finally be coming to an end; EPA plans to buy out more than 1,200 employees this summer; A reactor in Idaho could change the future of nuclear energy — if it survives Trump’s budget; A bitter scientific debate just erupted over the future of America’s power grid; A third of the world’s people already face deadly heat waves. It could be nearly three-quarters by 2100.; Rick Perry just denied that humans are the main cause of climate change; This EPA research program just got a rave scientific review. Trump wants to eliminate it.; Wildfires used to be rare in the Great Plains. They've more than tripled in 30 years;
 
Energy and Environment
With Chris Mooney
 
 
EPA just gave notice to dozens of scientific advisory board members that their time is up
EPA science shake-up continues, with dozens of scientists not renewed for the agency's Board of Scientific Counselors.
Why Saudi Arabia’s quest to prop up oil prices is failing
Thanks to a production glut, Americans are paying President Clinton-era prices at the pump.
 
Scientists predict a Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ the size of New Jersey this summer
U.S. science agencies predict that this year's Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" will be the third-largest on record.
 
Zinke defends huge job cuts at Interior: ‘This is what a balanced budget looks like.’
Democrats on the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources faulted the funding cuts proposed for Native tribes, national parks and land conservation.
 
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A massive and unprecedented coral bleaching event may finally be coming to an end
The data aren't in yet. But 'I would bet it is the most damaging' such event that we've yet seen, one scientist says.
 
EPA plans to buy out more than 1,200 employees this summer
Employees who accept buyouts must leave the agency by Sept. 2.
 
A reactor in Idaho could change the future of nuclear energy — if it survives Trump’s budget
This project was hailed as the future of nuclear energy, but without federal support, advocates are concerned the industry has a limited future.
 
A bitter scientific debate just erupted over the future of America’s power grid
A popular paper says the U.S. could leave fossil fuels behind by 2055. But some scientists argue it's riddled with errors.
 
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A third of the world’s people already face deadly heat waves. It could be nearly three-quarters by 2100.
Climate change is exposing more and more people to deadly heat waves.
 
Rick Perry just denied that humans are the main cause of climate change
Trump's energy secretary just rejected a fundamental piece of climate science.
 
This EPA research program just got a rave scientific review. Trump wants to eliminate it.
An EPA science program targeted for elimination conducted essential research, report finds.
 
Wildfires used to be rare in the Great Plains. They've more than tripled in 30 years
Scientists find a 400 percent increase in wildfire destruction in the Great Plains
 
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