Energy and Environment: The most consequential environmental stories of 2017
Trump administration renews mining leases near Minnesota wilderness, reversing Obama This study aimed to make offshore drilling safer. Trump just put a stop to it.
The move, which benefits a Chilean company, reverses an Obama administration decision over concerns that any future mining operation could contaminate the region's pristine watershed.
Four months after halting a study on the health effects of mountaintop removal to extract coal, the Trump administration has suspended the offshore drilling study.
A new scientific study reawakened a fraught debate over one of the more contested, and potentially devastating, consequences of a warming climate: changing patterns of human migration.
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