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

 

CNN – Smoke in Australia’s capital is so bad that the agency responsible for emergency management shut down

 

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 – As the Planet Warms, Unusual Crops Could Become Climate Saviors – But Only If We’re Willing to Eat Them

 

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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