"Elizabeth Warren Backs "Idea" of a Green New Deal"
"Senator Elizabeth Warren broadly supports the "idea" of a "Green New Deal," one of her Senate aides told Axios."
Source: Axios, 01/02/2019
Energy & Fuel
Oversight on EPA FOIA Screening, Covering Pipeline Protests, Feedlot Air Emissions, Data on Illegal Fishing
The new year will likely mean subpoenas on EPA’s FOIA response policies, as a Democrat takes the chair in the House Oversight Committee amid charges the agency is choking off politically sensitive record requests. And are new laws in a dozen states making coverage of pipeline protests a felony? That, plus air emission exemptions for animal feedlot operators and data on illegal fishing. All in the latest issue of the WatchDog.
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Under Trump, Squalls over Science Will Continue in 2019
The Trump administration’s “war on science” is playing out not just at the EPA, with its controversial proposed “secret science” rule, but at federal agencies throughout the government. This special TipSheet lays out the conflict, and offers guidance on how to turn the overarching issue into a story with character and a regional or local sense of place. Plus, see more in our ongoing 2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment.
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New EPA Plan Could Free Coal Plants to Release More Mercury Into the Air
"The Trump administration proposed on Friday major changes to the way the federal government calculates the benefits, in human health and safety, of restricting mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants."
Source: NY Times, 12/31/2018
"Taylor Energy Sues Contractor Chosen To Fix Its 14-Year-Old Oil Leak"
"A Belle Chasse marine contractor given the job of stopping a 14-year-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is defending itself against a lawsuit alleging it’s unqualified for the work and may cause more environmental damage."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 12/24/2018
Lamar Smith: A Ranch, An Oil Field, And A Career Colored By Skepticism
"Rep. Lamar Smith's cattle brand is shaped like the number 2, with a check mark in the top right corner. It's supposed to be burned in the right hip of an animal."
Source: ClimateWire, 12/24/2018
"Norway To Build Wind Farm Despite Concerns Of Reindeer Herders"
"Norway said on Friday it would build a wind park in an area used for reindeer grazing despite U.N. calls to suspend the project to study the impact on the indigenous herders’ livelihoods."
Source: Reuters, 12/24/2018
Powerless: What It Looks Like When A Gas Driller Overruns Your Land
"Lee Martin loved her 104-acre farm in Wetzel County, West Virginia. The family raised chickens there and rode horses. The kids played in mud puddles. They all took walks in the woods. ... Then, starting in about 2012, Martin had to begin sharing the farm with Stone Energy."
Source: ProPublica, 12/21/2018
"Administration Moves Closer To Opening Arctic Refuge For Oil"
"The Trump administration moved closer on Thursday to opening thousands of miles within Alaska’s pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, issuing a draft report that concluded the polar bears, caribou and other wildlife could safely share their untouched wilderness with oil and gas producers."
Source: AP, 12/21/2018
9 State Attorneys Join Suit Opposing Air Guns For Atlantic Oil Search
"State attorneys general from Maine to South Carolina joined a lawsuit filed by conservationists seeking to block the Trump administration from allowing seismic testing in the Atlantic Ocean that could harm marine mammals and lead to drilling off the Eastern Seaboard for the first time in decades."
Source: Washington Post, 12/21/2018
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