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EPA moves to cut Obama’s auto mileage rules
The Trump administration announced that fuel-efficiency regulations for cars and light trucks are too stringent and must be revised, beginning a process sought by the U.S. auto industry to pare anti-pollution targets.
EPA plan would discount health benefits of reducing CO2 emissions
Reducing smog pollutants could avoid 3,600 premature deaths, previous estimates suggested.
Judge: Trump admin. must consider climate change in major drilling and mining lease plan
The plan covers 15 million acres in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming. The ruling on it is the latest to cite risks of fossil fuels and global warming.
Federal employees protecting public lands now wear oil rigs on their lapels
Under the Trump administration, the Bureau of Land Management has some new branding, one that prominently features oil rigs.
Hurricane Harvey’s toxic impact deeper than public told
A toxic onslaught from the nation’s petrochemical hub was largely overshadowed by the record-shattering deluge of Hurricane Harvey as residents and first responders struggled to save lives and property.
Global carbon emissions are on their way back up
A new International Energy Agency report finds that worldwide carbon dioxide emissions from energy — which are the lion’s share of global emissions — ticked upward by 1.4% in 2017 after a three-year plateau.
Scott Pruitt will restrict the EPA’s use of legitimate science
This is a move that serves no purpose other than to prevent the EPA from carrying out its mission of protecting public health and the environment.
Courtroom science lab: Federal judge tutored in climate change
Opponents in a lawsuit rarely find themselves in the same corner of a legal boxing match. In federal court here Wednesday, though, the gloves stayed on: Leading climate change experts and oil industry representatives largely agreed our planet is warming, our seas rising.
National Park Service warned lease sale Tuesday could harm national monument in Utah
The Bureau of Land Management disregarded a request by the National Park Service that it hold off leasing 17,000 acres of public land in Utah on Tuesday because of concerns that drilling there could harm Hovenweep National Monument’s views and air, groundwater and sound quality.
