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DEP Awards St. Lucie County $2.3 million for Water Projects

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently announced that St. Lucie County will receive more than $2.3 million in grants for several water-quality project.

$Study blames fracking for increase in West Texas earthquakes$

Study blames fracking for increase in West Texas earthquakes

Hydraulic fracturing in the Permian Basin of West Texas is being blamed in part for some of the earthquakes in the region according to a new study by the University of Texas at Austin.

EPA announces reversal of biofuel mandate policy

Small petroleum refineries in 2020 will get partial exemptions from biofuel blending requirements rather than approval or denial of full exemptions according to an announcement made this week by the EPA.

Scientists turn to elk to help restore damaged strip-mined land

Former coal strip mines are now meadows that host Rocky Mountain elk and other animals

Bird Extinction Expert to Speak at Bennington College about Bird Crisis in N. America

State Works to Reduce Traffic Collisions with Wildlife

Animals in the road cause an average of 500 traffic collisions a year in Nevada

Environmentalists complain of EPA’s latest cleanup of Tar Creek Pollution

Environmentalists express disappointment in the EPA’a newest proposed plan to clean up the Tar Creek Superfund site in northeast Oklahoma.

Two-thirds of U.S. birds face extinction due to climate-linked ’emergency’: Audubon

Two-thirds of bird species in North America, already disappearing at an alarming rate, face extinction unless immediate action is taken to slow the rate of climate change, the National Audubon Society said on Thursday.

TOXIC PFAS CHEMICALS FOUND IN ARTIFICIAL TURF

PFAS CHEMICALS HAVE been identified in synthetic turf, according to lab tests performed on several samples of the artificial grass that were shared with The Intercept.

Fat is fabulous for bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park

Alaska grizzly bears packing on pounds (kilos) for the winter are competing for more than the season’s last salmon. They are also vying for the title of the state’s fattest bear.

Environmentalists challenge BLM’s lease plan in western Colorado

Environmental groups filed a lawsuit this week in a federal court opposing a Bureau of Land Management plan for oil and gas leasing on about a million acres of public lands in western Colorado.

Scientists find toxic fungus near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

A highly poisonous fungus, with toxins that can be absorbed through the skin, has been identified for the first time in the rain forest near the Great Barrier Reef, Australian scientists said on Thursday.

Ask the Indy: In Colorado, how culpable are cows for climate change?

Livestock is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. The picture in Colorado is a little different.

USDA to Provide $150 Million to Help Rural Communities Affected by Natural Disasters

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director for Kansas, Lynne Hinrichsen, highlighted that USDA is providing $150 million in grants through the agency’s Community Facilities Program.

New Mexico supreme court rules against environmentalists’ challenge

The New Mexico Supreme Court this week denied a Santa Fe-based clean energy group’s petition to declare certain provisions of the state’s new Energy Transition Act unconstitutional.

Environmentalists sue over lizard in Permian Basin

Two wildlife conservation groups sued the Trump administration this week, asking a judge to help a threatened lizard whose habitat is in the middle of the Permian Basin oil field.

DEQ to hold informational meeting about possible Superfund site in Henryetta

The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will host an informational meeting to discuss the Henryetta Iron and Metal site on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, at 6:30 p.m.

Amazon fires drive spike in child breathing problems in Brazil: study

The surge in fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest this year fueled a spike in young children being treated for breathing problems as smoke clouded the air throughout the region, according to a study released on Wednesday.

Fukushima: Storage tanks are full, radioactive waste to be dumped directly into the ocean

Japan will have to dump radioactive water into Pacific, minister says

NBAF Names First Permanent Director

This morning, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agriculture Research Service (ARS) announced the hiring of Dr. Alfonso Clavijo as the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility’s first permanent director.

EPA signs off on Arkansas’ regional haze plan

EPA has given final approval to an Arkansas regional haze reduction plan that rolls back Obama-era requirements for sulfur dioxide scrubbers on two high-polluting power plants.

Disaster under the waves: the race to save the coral of the Caribbean

Emily Hower, a research assistant at Nova Southeastern University doing field work on coral off Key West in Florida, bobs up out of the water and removes her diving mask. The news is not good.

HUNDREDS OF NON-RECYCLABLE WIND TURBINE BLADES TO BE BURIED IN LANDFILL

Stock Up On Tissues Because Climate Change Is Putting More Pollen In Kansas’ Air

Deanna Caudill hasn’t used an inhaler since she was a child. That all changed for the 25-year-old Wichita State graduate student this month when, after getting a back-to-school cold, she never seemed to recover.

Memo reveals EPA granted some refineries ‘full’ waivers from biofuels regulations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted some refineries full waivers from biofuels regulation for the 2018 compliance year, even though the Department of Energy had recommended partial exemptions, according to an EPA memo seen by Reuters.

Prairie Chicken’s future at risk?

Environmentalists and conservationists have growing concerns that the lesser prairie chicken found in western Oklahoma and parts of New Mexico and Texas is facing more threats to its existence. And oil and gas exploration is getting some of the attention.

OPERATION AMAZON REDUX: Brazil’s Army Wanted to “Occupy” the Amazon Before. Leaked Audio Reveals Their Plan to Try Again.

Environment Report: What to Watch as the City’s New Energy Agency Gets Off the Ground

Last week, the San Diego City Council took the big plunge and decided, in a 7-2 vote, to start buying and selling energy.

Location of new BLM headquarters worries environmentalists

The Interior Department late Friday announced it has leased office space for the new BLM headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo. The move to 760 Horizon Drive “is another step in providing better service to the American people and our neighbors in the West,” said Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in a press release, according to POLITICO’s Morning Energy Report.

MIT Media Lab Kept Regulators in the Dark, Dumped Chemicals in Excess of Legal Limit

The Climate Hunters: In the Arctic, three young women race to defuse what they believe is a carbon bomb

Commissioners want Clark County to fight climate change

In the same week that young people across the globe joined a strike to demand action on climate change, Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones outlined a plan for the county to assert itself as a leader on sustainability issues.

EPA ALLOWED COMPANIES TO MAKE 40 NEW PFAS CHEMICALS DESPITE SERIOUS RISKS

Wrong Again, The Original FAKE NEWS: 50 Years of Failed “Global Warming”, “Global Cooling”, Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

Con Artist, Scam Artist, and Hustlers, get put in jail, not promoted

Bird numbers plunge in U.S. and Canada with people to blame

From grasslands to seashores to forests and backyards, birds are disappearing at an alarming rate in the United States and Canada, with a 29% population drop since 1970 and a net loss of about 2.9 billion birds, scientists said on Thursday.

Mad Science: “Oblivion Agenda” Lecture Video

A 10-hour lecture series in multiple parts

Poor countries will need to increase carbon footprint to address hunger: study

$Alliance says a fracking ban would put environmental goals out of reach$

Alliance says a fracking ban would put environmental goals out of reach

Oklahoma’s oil and natural gas industry is dedicated to reducing air emissions, while continuing to increase oil and natural gas production. In the United States, greenhouse gas emissions have fallen to their lowest levels since 1992, and between 2011 and 2017 methane emissions fell 24 percent, while oil production rose 65 percent and natural gas rose production 19 percent, according to the EPA and EIA.

90 PER CENT OF PLASTIC WASTE POLLUTING EARTH’S OCEANS COMES FROM ASIA AND AFRICA

Genetically-modified mosquito apocalypse plan BACKFIRES spectacularly in Brazil

An experimental trial to reduce the mosquito population in Brazil through the deliberate release of 450,000 genetically modified mosquitoes has failed miserably

ONLY 38% OF AMERICANS BELIEVE IN MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE

Groups planning ‘Climate Crisis’ day in Tulsa on Friday

Organizers of an event to bring more attention to what they call the “Climate Crisis” are hoping hundreds or more students walk out of their classes in Tulsa on Friday.

Keep Port St. Lucie Beautiful Tree Giveaway

450 Free Trees were handed out to City of Port St. Lucie Residents

Swedish climate activist Thunberg asks U.S. Congress for action, not praise

Swedish teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg joined other youth leaders to urge U.S. lawmakers to support “transformative climate action” during two days of meetings and speeches on Capitol Hill, starting on Tuesday.

Yepsen and Pikulski Launch Public Relations Firm in Saratoga NY

Ag groups celebrate end of WOTUS

The final nail in the coffin has been hammered for the 2015 Obama-era Waters of the United States rule, overturned officially by the US Environmental Protection Agency, Thursday, after a lengthy repeal process set in motion early on in the first days of the Trump Administration.

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