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"Air Pollution: EPA Stacks Key Advisory Pool With Industry Insiders"

"One is a senior-level retiree from a power company that has battled stricter environmental regulations for decades. Two are industry consultants who helped co-author a 2015 paper questioning the approach that led EPA to tighten its national ozone standards later that year. A fourth, on the advisory board of a conservative nonprofit, questions evidence of the long-term health risks posed by exposure to fine particulates."

Source: E&E News PM, 09/19/2019

"EPA: Facing Fines, Polluters Turn To Trump's Enforcement Fixer"

"When career EPA enforcement staffers accused an Indiana whiskey distillery of emitting massive quantities of smog-forming pollution, Patrice Douglas knew just who to call."

Source: Greenwire, 09/19/2019

"NOAA Sued for ‘Stonewalling’ Over FOIA Requests"

"An environmental group is suing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for failing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request about Freedom of Information Act requests."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/18/2019

"Inside Conservative Groups’ Effort to ‘Make Dishwashers Great Again’"

"Of all the conservative efforts to persuade the Trump administration to weaken the nation’s environmental rules, the dishwasher lobby might be the most peculiar."

Source: NY Times, 09/18/2019

Border Fence Construction Could Destroy Archaeological Sites: NPS

"Bulldozers and excavators rushing to install President Trump’s border barrier could damage or destroy up to 22 archaeological sites within Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in coming months, according to an internal National Park Service report obtained by The Washington Post."

Source: Washington Post, 09/18/2019

Trump to Revoke Calif. Authority to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules

"The Trump administration is expected on Wednesday to formally revoke California’s authority to set auto emissions rules that are stricter than federal standards, taking a major step forward in its wide-ranging attack on government efforts to fight climate change."

Source: NY Times, 09/18/2019

"'The Silenced': Meet The Climate Whistleblowers Muzzled By Trump"

"Six whistleblowers and ex-government scientists describe how the Trump administration made them bury climate science – and why they won’t stay quiet"

Source: Guardian, 09/17/2019

"U.S. Utilities File Legal Challenge To Trump Power Plant Rule"

"Con Edison and eight other U.S. utilities mostly from Democratic-led states have filed a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants, which replaces a much tougher Obama-era rule."

Source: Reuters, 09/17/2019

"Air Pollution: Partial Redo Ordered On Obama EPA 'Good Neighbor' Rule"

"EPA must go back to the drawing board on part of its Cross-State Air Pollution Rule update, a panel of federal judges ruled today [Friday]."

Source: Greenwire, 09/16/2019

"Harris Goes After DOJ Antitrust Probe Of Automakers Over Emissions"

"Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) sent a letter to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) inspector general Friday requesting he probe the basis for the department's antitrust investigation into four automakers working with California to reduce car emissions."

Source: The Hill, 09/16/2019

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