"White House Threatens Veto of GOP Bill To Kill Water Regs"
"The White House has threatened to veto a Republican bill that would repeal a controversial Environmental Protection Agency clean water rule."
Source: The Hill, 04/30/2015
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Obama To Press Climate Agenda With Trip To Everglades on Earth Day
"President Obama will tout his administration's efforts to protect the environment during a visit to the Everglades in south Florida on Wednesday, as the White House presses its go-it-alone climate-change agenda."
Source: Wash Post, 04/20/2015
Stiff Opposition to Bakken-Bearing Pipeline in Land of 10,000 Lakes
"A Canadian company proposes a multibillion-dollar oil pipeline through some of the Midwest's prized lakes and wetlands, igniting a firestorm among environmentalists, tribes and anti-fossil fuel activists who say the proposal is built on hollow promises of economic development and dubious claims of environmental protection."
Source: EnergyWire, 04/13/2015
"Exxon Mobil Settles With New Jersey Over Environmental Damage"
"A long-fought legal battle to recover $8.9 billion in damages from Exxon Mobil Corporation for the contamination and loss of use of more than 1,500 acres of wetlands, marshes, meadows and waters in New Jersey has been quietly settled by the state for around $250 million."
Source: NY Times, 02/27/2015
"Opposition Grows To Nicaragua Canal Connecting Atlantic And Pacific"
"The canal would allow passage for the largest ships on the water, but cut through wetlands, forests and the region's largest freshwater lake — and environmentalists worry about the consequences."
Source: NPR, 02/27/2015
Judge Dismissses Wetlands Damage Suit Against Oil, Gas Companies
"A federal judge on Friday (Feb. 13) dismissed a controversial wetlands damage lawsuit filed by the east bank levee authority against more than 80 oil, gas and pipeline companies, ruling that the authority failed to make a valid claim against the energy firms."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 02/16/2015
Voluntary Fertilizer Cuts Not Enough To Shrink Gulf Dead Zone: Study
"Major voluntary strategies used on Midwest farmland to curb fertilizers that feed the annual low oxygen "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico don't remove enough nutrients to succeed, according to a new, peer reviewed scientific study."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 02/04/2015
"Beavers Could Help California Fight Effects of Drought"
"LOS GATOS, Calif. — Three punishing years of drought have parched California streams, rivers and wetlands. One animal has the potential to restore these dry landscapes."
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel, 12/23/2014
LA Restoration Should Get Top Priority For BP Spill Fine Money: Enviros
"Rebuilding Louisiana's coast, including the rapidly eroding Mississippi River delta, should be the main use of billions of dollars in expected BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill fine and restoration money, according to two reports released Tuesday by the National Wildlife Federation and a coalition of national and Louisiana environmental groups."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 12/10/2014
"The Huge, Hidden Cost of Protecting Homeowners From the Rising Sea"
"As sea levels rise, as much as $1.4 trillion worth of coastal property could be threatened with flooding by 2100, by one estimate. But what will it cost to protect those properties? Now comes a hint at the enormous pricetag."
Source: Wash Post, 11/19/2014
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