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Poland Officially Challenging EU’s Global Warming SchemeDaily CallerETS is a major pillar of the EU’s efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, ostensibly to fight global warming. Europe wants to restructure its current CO2 pricing system to reduce emissions, but Poland fears the changes would be a heavy burden for the country … and more »

Sorry, Huffington Post: Economic growth really will help solve ‘that whole environment thing’Washington ExaminerCongressman Dave Brat, R-Va., recently drew heat for saying, “rich people, it turns out, like clean air and clean water,” at a town hall. Brat was pointing out that economic growth is good for the environment. Sam Levine at The Huffington Post…

World Health Organization The cost of a polluted environment: 1.7 million child deaths a year, says WHOWorld Health Organization6 March 2017 | GENEVA – More than 1 in 4 deaths of children under 5 years of are attributable to unhealthy environments. Every year, environmental risks – such as indoor and outdoor air pollution, second-hand smoke,…

The Independent Brexit could ‘derail’ EU attempts to fight climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, say MEPsThe IndependentIan Duncan MEP, who is the Conservatives’ European spokesman on energy and climate change and also the lead lawmaker on reforming the ETS, said there was a “serious risk” Brexit could stop the functioning of the scheme,…

Crosscut Hometown crowd peppers Ericksen with EPA, environment questionsCrosscutDoug Ericksen faced a host of environmental questions, including about his bicoastal role as a legislator in Olympia and a Trump administration official with the EPA in Washington, D.C.. About 650 people packed into the auditorium at Meridian High … and more »

Ars Technica In the US, added wildfires due to carelessness, not just climate changeArs TechnicaThe United States spends billions of dollars every year fighting wildfires. A recent paper published in PNAS finds that human-started conflagrations account for 84 percent of all wildfires in the US in recent years. These human-started wildfires have … and more »

Fortune Gorsuch Willing to Limit Environmental Groups in Land CasesFortuneSupreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has shown a willingness to limit the participation of environmental groups in lawsuits involving public lands, writing in one case that allowing conservationists to intervene could complicate and slow down the … and more »

Arizona Daily Sun Flagstaff-area land managers take up climate change studyArizona Daily SunKey to that role in climate change study is the National Park Services’ inventory and monitoring network, created in 1998 to record baseline resource data on things like species diversity and water quality as well as track “vital signs” like soil …

Sacramento Bee Oroville Dam’s close call shows regulatory need to account for climate changeSacramento BeeFERC’s first problem is not accounting for climate change in license renewals. Most of America’s dams were built between 1930 and 1970, using the best available estimates of river flows. Since then, our climate has transformed and extreme weather …Climate change…

Trump golf resort and Scottish planners clash over the environmentThe GuardianThe company, now being run by Donald Trump’s son Eric, applied to Aberdeenshire council last week to “discharge” clauses in its planning permission which require it to run an environmental advisory group to oversee construction across the rare, legally …