"After years of attempts, Ohio lawmakers voted Wednesday to end the subsidy for two unprofitable Cold War-era coal plants that had cost Ohio ratepayers nearly $400,000 a day, after they were tucked into the tainted energy bill at the center of the largest corruption scandal in state history."
"The biennial Conference of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions will consider banning the controversial pesticide and two other toxic compounds"
"Current regulations date back to the Carter administration, and a planned overhaul could help fast-track gas export projects."
"House Republicans are looking to use their massive party-line bill to strip federal agencies of their power to unilaterally approve all major rules."
"The House on Wednesday voted to axe California’s clean truck rules — defying Congress’s own internal watchdog in doing so."
"As ecologists debate what to do about “invasive” swans in New York City, volunteers fight to keep them alive."
"A Canadian company announced Tuesday that its U.S. subsidiary submitted applications to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to mine the seafloor, sparking outrage by bypassing a U.N. agency that regulates deep international waters."
"The Trump administration temporarily rehired as many as 40 employees who screen coal miners for the deadly and incurable disease."
"A top official in the Department of Labor this week informed all staff members that they could face criminal charges if they speak to journalists, former employees or others about agency business."
"“This president is a master of distraction and is destroying what it took 250 years to build. Here’s another distraction in his quest for attention. Another failure of his first 100 days,” said North Carolina Rep. Alma Adams, responding to efforts to physically remove the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit from the National Museum of African American History and Culture — affectionately known as the “Blacksonian.”"
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