Thursday 20 June 2019

Energy and Environment: Trump EPA finalizes rollback of key Obama climate rule that targeted coal plants

Energy and Environment
With Chris Mooney
Trump EPA finalizes rollback of key Obama climate rule that targeted coal plants
The energy sector is already on track to far exceed the rule's carbon reduction goal of 35 percent by 2035.
Analysis | The Energy 202: Want to address climate change? Fix campaign finance first, 2020 Democrats say.
They say fossil-fuel interests have been able to forestall meaningful legislation.
 
Analysis | The Energy 202: This former EPA appointee wants to make climate change a winning issue for Trump
Mandy Gunasekara says Republicans "need to be better about communicating" their good work.
 
Recent scorching temperatures in Kuwait and Pakistan confirmed as third and fourth hottest on Earth
The 129 degrees in Mitribah, Kuwait, was deemed the hottest recorded in Asia.
 
 
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Analysis | The Energy 202: A federal watchdog is investigating Trump administration's decisions on Utah monument
GAO is probing whether it broke the law by using federal funds to explore leasing.
 
Analysis | The Energy 202: Congress wants to know when Trump will fill all the vacant positions at Interior
Rep. Raul Grijalva penned a letter to the president.
 
Temperatures leap 40 degrees above normal as the Arctic Ocean and Greenland ice sheet see record June melting
And it may be messing with our weather.
 
 
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Michigan authorities drop all criminal charges relating to Flint water crisis
Officials effectively rebooted a criminal investigation that began in 2016.
 
Former EPA leaders question agency's direction under Trump
They plan to criticize the agency's shrinking size and ambition.
 
Schiff demands intelligence agencies provide documents on White House's suppression of climate testimony
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) demanded that the heads of two federal intelligence agencies provide documents detailing how White House officials sought to edit and then suppress written testimony on climate change.
 
 
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