"Nuclear Agency Begins Work To Consider Yucca Mountain Site"
"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is taking steps to review the planned revival of the long-dormant nuclear waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain."
Source: AP, 08/09/2017
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"US Scientists Contradict Trump’s Climate Claims"
"As President Donald Trump touts new oil pipelines and pledges to revive the nation’s struggling coal mines, federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep increase in the United States of heat waves, droughts and floods."
Source: AP, 08/09/2017
Ag Department Is Censoring Use Of Term 'Climate Change', Emails Reveal
"Staff at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been told to avoid using the term climate change in their work, with the officials instructed to reference 'weather extremes' instead."
Source: Guardian, 08/08/2017
Scrapping Climate Protections Would Erase $300 Billion in Benefits
"The Trump administration has been systematically dismantling the nation's climate change regulations, often claiming a high cost of compliance as justification. But a new study says keeping those rules would actually save nearly $300 billion a year by 2030."
Source: InsideClimate News, 08/08/2017
"Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S."
"The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration."
Source: NY Times, 08/08/2017
"U.S. To Relax Rules Protecting Sage Grouse, In Win For Oil Drillers"
"The U.S. Interior Department on Monday launched an overhaul to an Obama-era plan to protect sage grouse that it says aims to both preserve the species of bird while expanding opportunities for oil development in western states where they live."
Source: Reuters, 08/08/2017
"Under Trump, Coal Mining Gets New Life on U.S. Lands"
"The Trump administration is wading into one of the oldest and most contentious debates in the West by encouraging more coal mining on lands owned by the federal government. It is part of an aggressive push to both invigorate the struggling American coal industry and more broadly exploit commercial opportunities on public lands."
Source: NY Times, 08/07/2017
Infrastructure Borrowing Drops As U.S. States Await Trump Plan Details
"President Donald Trump arrived in office having promised a bold $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan over 10 years for roads, bridges, airports and transit systems crumbling by the day across the United States. But nearly seven months later the administration has produced few details on the future of federal infrastructure funding, one reason why state and municipal governments have issued fewer bonds to improve roads, water systems and other projects so far in 2017."
Source: Reuters, 08/07/2017
"Keystone XL Pipeline Fate In Balance As Nebraska Opens Hearings"
"Nebraska regulators will hear final arguments for and against TransCanada Corp’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline this week before deciding whether to approve its route later this year, the last big hurdle for the long-delayed project after President Donald Trump gave it federal approval."
Source: Reuters, 08/07/2017
US to Join Climate Talks Despite Planned Withdrawal From Paris Accord
"The White House formally notified the United Nations on Friday that it intends to abandon the Paris agreement on climate change but remains open to 're-engaging' on the accord."
Source: NY Times, 08/07/2017
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