Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Ecology and Pollution related links 013118



After federal grid rule crumbles, battle to save nuclear plants returns to Pennsylvania


 

Trump’s Interior Department Is Ill-Prepared to Deal with the Next Big Spill


 

Offshore Drilling Plan Under Fire: Zinke May Have Violated Law, Senator Says.  The Trump administration wanted to open 90 percent of the U.S. coasts to oil and gas drilling. With states opposed and potential legal challenges, can it succeed?


 

Radium contamination in public water systems nationwide


 

Things in Puerto Rico continue to worsen as police chief resigns amid increased killings


 

China builds ‘world’s biggest air purifier’ (and it seems to be working): A 100-metre high air purification tower in Xian in Shaanxi province has helped reduce smog levels in the city, preliminary results suggest


 

Linnett: Hemp replaces uranium in rural western Colorado (column)


 

President Trump Wants to Set the Regulatory Clock Back to 1960.


 

Trump won the war on Christmas! Now he laughs at global warming.  Over the holiday weekend, Trump made clear he believes two of the dumbest lies of all time. Is he fit for office?


 

Natural disasters cost America a record $306 BILLION last year - with a record 16 costing more than $1bn each


 

It's So Hot In Australia, Hundreds Of Bats Just Dropped Dead


 

Tapped: The Prospect Group Blog.  Voting-Rights Activists Rally Against Kobach Commission


 

The Polar Vortex, Winter Storm Grayson, and Climate Change: What’s the Connection?


 

Get ready for a rare ‘super blue blood moon eclipse’


 

Too much screen time is raising rate of childhood myopia


 

Environmental Activist Sued for Libel Over Facebook Comment About Oil and Gas Company


 

Trump Names BP Oil Spill Lawyer, Climate Policy Foe as Top DOJ Environment Attorney:  Jeffrey Bossert Clark repeatedly challenged the scientific underpinnings of U.S. climate policy while representing the Chamber of Commerce.


 

Developers Turn Mexican Paradise into an Environmental Time Bomb: Activists blame corruption and greed for labor exploitation and ecological devastation in the Riviera Maya.


 

Exclusive: Trump Slams Elephant Hunting For Trophies, Skeptical Fees Go For Conservation.  In an interview with Piers Morgan set to air Sunday, Trump calls the initial U.S. decision to lift a ban on trophy imports “terrible.”


 

15 years after the invasion of Iraq, and now largely out of the glare of the media, US and UK oil corporations start to flaunt the spoils of imperial conquest.


 

Trump Hurting Solar Power Industry Growth? Company Puts Job Expansion on Hold After Tariff Announcement


 

Puerto Rico Governor Seizes Opportunity Created by Hurricane Maria, Plans to Privatize Electric Power


 

House Science Committee Wants to Investigate a Government Scientist for Doing Science


 

The Planet Is Burning and Neoliberalism Is Not the Answer: Why market-based solutions like cap-and-trade aren’t progressive.


 

Does the Natural World Needs Its Own Bill of Rights? Why environmentalists are working to grant rivers and mountains legal status.


 

How the Hydroponics Industry Is Undermining Everything the Organic Farming Movement Stands For


 

World's most indestructible creature - the tardigrade - will be alive on Earth until Sun dies 


 

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