Ambient Air Quality/EPA/NTAA/Tribes
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U.S. EPA – EPA at 50: Progress for a Stronger Future
E&E News – Region 5 EPA chief stepping down
High Country News – Young Indigenous activists lead climate justice action in Alaska
The Hill – EPA’s independent science board questions underpinning of numerous agency rollbacks
NY Times – Science Panel Staffed With Trump Appointees Says E.P.A. Rollbacks Lack Scientific Rigor
Indian Country Today – Company to shut down inactive Mount Taylor uranium mine
Indian Country Today – Trump administration’s environmental protection is ‘a regulatory failure’
Sydney Morning Herald – Health impacts of bushfires won’t be known for years, experts say
National Association of Clean Air Agencies – Washington Update
Decade Wrap Up
Grist – We broke down the last decade of climate change in 7 charts
Gizmodo – The Satellite Images That Show a Decade of Climate Change
USA Today – 10 years to save planet Earth: Here are 6 imaginative climate change solutions
USA Today – Were the predictions we made about climate change 20 years ago accurate? Here’s a look
NPR – The Global Stories of 2019 That You Probably Missed
NPR – Reporters Pick Their Favorite Global Stories of the Decade
Climate Change/Energy
Indian Country Today – The sunrise ahead: What’s next for closed Navajo power plant
E&E News – NEPA climate overhaul could unleash energy projects
NY Times – Trump Rule Would Exclude Climate Change in Infrastructure Planning
NY Times – N.A.A.C.P. Tells Local Chapters: Don’t Let Energy Industry Manipulate You
Reuters – Trump to overhaul environmental review process, dismiss climate impacts: sources
ARS Technica – Ditching coal in the US is saving lives, helping crops
NPR – More Ice and Less Snow Gets a Chilly Reception in Anchorage, Alaska
NPR – California Cities Turn to Hired Hooves to Help Prevent Massive Wildfires
Ensia – How Can We Adapt to Climate Change? This Online Hub Has Answers
E&E News – N.Y. set to close last coal plant
NY Times – To Fight Climate Change, One City May Ban Heating Homes with Natural Gas
Toxics/Mobile Sources
E&E News – EPA wants to strengthen – not weaken – this truck regulation
The Hill – Critics skeptical of EPA plans for tougher truck standards
E&E News – House makes PFAS bill first order of business
Indoor Air Quality
Indian Country Today – The gift of coal for Hopi and Navajo families
ENN – Potentially Toxic Chemicals from LCDs in Nearly Half of Household Dust Samples Tested
KRSL – Governor Proclaims January as Kansas Radon Action Month
The American Prospect – Death by Recycled Air
This Is Reno – Updates to Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act now in effect
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