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<font size="+1"><i>October 22, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b>A Victory for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe</b><br>
October 20, 2017 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theindigenousamericans.com">The Indigenous
American</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theindigenousamericans.com/2017/10/17/victory-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-court-finds-approval-dakota-access-pipeline-violated-law-2/">In
Victory for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Court Finds That Approval
of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law.</a></b><br>
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe won a significant victory today in its
fight to protect the Tribe's drinking water and ancestral lands from
the Dakota Access pipeline.<br>
A federal judge ruled that the federal permits authorizing the
pipeline to cross the Missouri River just upstream of the Standing
Rock reservation, which were hastily issued by the Trump
administration just days after the inauguration, violated the law in
certain critical respects.<br>
In a 91-page decision, Judge James Boasberg wrote, "the Court agrees
that [the Corps] did not adequately consider the impacts of an oil
spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice,
or the degree to which the pipeline's effects are likely to be
highly controversial."<br>
The Court did not determine whether pipeline operations should be
shut off and has requested additional briefing on the subject and a
status conference next week.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theindigenousamericans.com/2017/10/17/victory-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-court-finds-approval-dakota-access-pipeline-violated-law-2/">https://www.theindigenousamericans.com/2017/10/17/victory-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-court-finds-approval-dakota-access-pipeline-violated-law-2/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/climate-kook-trumps-choice-top-environmental-post/">Climate
Kook Is Trump's Choice For Top Environmental Post</a></b><br>
...President Trump has filled his administration with a rogue's
gallery of fossil fuel-loving climate deniers. Now he's set to sign
up another: Kathleen Hartnett White....<br>
Last week, Trump nominated Hartnett White, a longtime critic of
climate change policy, to head the White House Council on
Environmental Quality, which advises the administration on
environmental policy. <br>
On Thursday, CNN reported on some particularly incredible remarks
she made last year during an interview on a conservative online talk
show. Hartnett White claimed that environmental leaders were using
climate policy "to undermine the system of economic growth and
industrialization."<br>
She added, "There's a real dark side of the kind of paganism - the
secular elites' religion now being, evidently, global warming."<br>
"Whether emitted from the human use of fossil fuels or as a natural
(and necessary) gas in the atmosphere surrounding the earth, carbon
dioxide has none of the attributes of a pollutant," she wrote in a
2014 paper, in which she argued that "global warming alarmists are
misleading the public about carbon dioxide emissions."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/climate-kook-trumps-choice-top-environmental-post/">http://www.nationalmemo.com/climate-kook-trumps-choice-top-environmental-post/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/San-Bruno-explosion-hangs-over-PG-E-amid-wildfire-12295105.php">San
Bruno explosion hangs over PG&E amid wildfire investigation</a></b><br>
Authorities suspect that downed PG&E power lines may have
sparked the devastating wildfires in the North Bay that have so far
killed 42 people. In the past dozen days, about 100,000 people have
been evacuated statewide as 21 large fires decimated at least 8,400
structures and burned through more than 246,000 acres. Most of the
damage was in PG&E's vast service area.<br>
At this point, we really don't know if Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
is at fault. But in some ways, it doesn't matter. After a major
tragedy like these fires, we need someone, something to blame. And
PG&E is the perfect villain.<br>
This is the company whose negligence led to a natural gas pipeline
explosion in San Bruno seven years ago, a tragedy that killed eight
people and injured more than 50. A federal jury found the company
guilty of obstructing justice by lying to regulators about its
pipeline-testing policy. <br>
The company's new CEO, Geisha Williams, must craft a delicate
strategy in which PG&E acknowledges that skepticism and - if
investigators find convincing evidence - somehow accept moral
responsibility for the fires without taking on legal responsibility.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/San-Bruno-explosion-hangs-over-PG-E-amid-wildfire-12295105.php">http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/San-Bruno-explosion-hangs-over-PG-E-amid-wildfire-12295105.php</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/21/new-front-in-war-on-science/">New
Front in War on Science</a></b><br>
New legislation introduced this week by Senator Rand Paul (R–KY)
would fundamentally alter how grant proposals are reviewed at every
federal agency by adding public members with no expertise in the
research being vetted. <font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/21/new-front-in-war-on-science/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/21/new-front-in-war-on-science/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/10/o-say-can-you-co2/">O
Say Can You CO2…</a></b><br>
<div class="meta">12 October 2017 </div>
<small><em>Guest Commentary by <a
href="http://biocycle.atmos.colostate.edu">Scott Denning</a></em></small><br>
The <a href="https://oco.jpl.nasa.gov">Orbiting Carbon Observatory</a>
(OCO-2) was launched in 2014 to make fine-scale measurements of the
total column concentration of CO<sub>2</sub> in the atmosphere. As
luck would have it, the initial couple of years of data from OCO-2
documented a period with the fastest rate of CO2 increase ever
measured, more than 3 ppm per year <a
href="https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/publications/annual_meetings/2016/abstracts/83-160415-A.pdf">(Jacobson
et al, 2016</a>;<span id="cite_ITEM-20789-0" name="citation"><a
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/10/o-say-can-you-co2/#ITEM-20789-0">Wang
et al, 2017)</a></span> during a huge El Nino event that also
saw global temperatures spike to record levels. <br>
As part of a series of OCO-2 papers being published this week, a new
<em>Science</em> paper by <span id="cite_ITEM-20789-1"
name="citation"><a
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/10/o-say-can-you-co2/#ITEM-20789-1">Junjie
Liu and colleagues</a></span> used NASA's comprehensive Carbon
Monitoring System to analyze millions of measurements from OCO-2 and
other satellites to map the impact of the 2015-16 El Nino on sources
and sinks of CO<sub>2</sub>, providing insight into the mechanisms
controlling carbon-climate feedback.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/10/o-say-can-you-co2/">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/10/o-say-can-you-co2/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<div align="center"><b>Deadline for Public Comment on Proposed
Repeal</b><br>
December 15, 2017<br>
Find the proposal here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.regulations.gov/searchResults?rpp=25&po=0&s=epa-hq-oar-2017-0355&fp=true&ns=true">https://www.regulations.gov/searchResults?rpp=25&po=0&s=epa-hq-oar-2017-0355&fp=true&ns=true</a><br>
Submit Comments to the Docket: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0355-0002">https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0355-0002</a><br>
</div>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://saveepaalums.info/resisting-the-trump-de-regulatory-agenda-talking-points/defending-the-clean-power-plan/">Defending
the Clean Power Plan<br>
What's at Risk, How to Comment, and Talking Points </a></b><br>
The Clean Power Plan <br>
In August 2015, EPA issued the final Clean Power Plan (CPP) to
reduce climate changing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing
coal- and gas-fired electric power plants. CO2 is the most
prevalent of the greenhouse gases that are the primary cause of
climate change, threatening the lives, health, and well-being of
Americans and people around the globe.<br>
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) build up in the atmosphere and have
wide-ranging impacts around the globe. Current and anticipated
impacts include:<br>
<blockquote>- heat waves and record high temperatures along with an
increased risk of heat-related illnesses and death especially
among the poor and elderly;<br>
- greater risk of droughts, fire, more damaging storms, and floods
that can cause deaths and injuries as well as damage to property
and infrastructure;<br>
- increased spread of diseases, increases in health problems from
ozone pollution in U.S. cities, and increases in allergens;<br>
- acidification of the oceans, extinction of species, damage to
crops and fisheries, and potential increases in world hunger and
other destabilizing changes that would reduce U.S. national
security; and <br>
- possible rapid changes that could cause abrupt and serious
impacts for people and ecosystems. (For more information and
scientific report sources, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxEEWBL5FvSkOTRucTlFRXltQ2M">click
here.)</a><br>
</blockquote>
Climate change disproportionately threatens the health and welfare
of vulnerable populations in the U.S. and around the world including
children, the elderly and the poor including the health and welfare
of indigenous people.<br>
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that
between 1980 and October 6, 2017, U.S. billion-dollar extreme
weather disasters had cost $1.3 trillion in inflation-adjusted
damage and resulted in 9,905 deaths, not counting Hurricanes Harvey,
Irma, and Maria. Climate change already has exacerbated extreme
weather and can be expected to have even greater effects in the
future.[<br>
Coal and gas-fired power plants together emit more CO2 than any
other category of emissions sources in the U.S. By 2030, the CPP
would reduce power plant CO2 emissions by 32% from 2005 levels.<br>
The CPP sets emissions standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants
and corresponding emissions goals for each state. The goals reflect
the unique power system in each state. Under the CPP, each state
would develop and implement its own plan to reach its goal. There
is an array of policies that states can use to meet their goals and
each state can choose policies that best fit their own power
generating sector. EPA has provided model plans that a state could
adopt and implement if it did not want to write its own plan. Or,
if a state preferred, the state could choose to defer to a federal
plan that EPA would implement.<br>
The CPP was developed after years of extensive public engagement
that explored how best to establish requirements under the Clean Air
Act to limit climate pollution from the power sector.<br>
EPA's 2015 analysis shows that the benefits of the CPP are large,
dwarfing the costs. Twenty billion dollars in climate-related
benefits alone would occur in 2030. Furthermore, the measures taken
under the CPP to reduce CO2 emissions would cut emissions of other
air pollutants as well - pollutants associated with increases in
heart attacks, asthma attacks and deaths, producing health benefits
of $14 to $34 billion. In total, the net benefits of the CPP (the
value of total health, environmental and other economic benefits,
minus the cost to comply) were estimated to range from between $26
billion to $45 billion in 2030....<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://saveepaalums.info/resisting-the-trump-de-regulatory-agenda-talking-points/defending-the-clean-power-plan/">http://saveepaalums.info/resisting-the-trump-de-regulatory-agenda-talking-points/defending-the-clean-power-plan/</a></font><br>
<b>Talking Points — Why We Must Combat Climate Change </b><br>
The continued emissions of carbon pollution and other greenhouse
gases threaten the lives, health and well-being of Americans and
people worldwide. These long-lived gases are building up in the
atmosphere and causing far-reaching changes to our planet, according
to the National Research Council (the operational arm of the
National Academies), and other scientific authorities:<br>
<blockquote>- Heat waves and record high temperatures have increased
across most regions of the world resulting in an increased risk of
heat-related illnesses and deaths, especially among the poor and
elderly.<br>
- Patterns of precipitation now are changing regionally, and over
time are expected to make dry areas dryer and wet areas wetter.
These increasing trends will bring more droughts, increase fire
risks, and intensify severe storms, extreme weather and flooding —
events that can cause deaths, and injuries, as well as billions of
dollars of damage to property and the nation’s infrastructure
(e.g., electric power grid, roads and transportation systems,
water distribution systems, buildings, etc.)<br>
- This year we have witnessed the strongest hurricane season in
history. We have seen the devastation that can be caused by such
strong storms. The damage this year alone is estimated to be
several hundred billion dollars, far in excess of the annual cost
of the Clean Power Plan.<br>
- A myriad of other public health concerns are raised in the
scientific literature include anticipated increases in
ground-level ozone pollution, the potential for enhanced spread of
some waterborne and pest-related diseases, and evidence for
increased production or dispersion of airborne allergens.<br>
- Numerous species in the ocean and on land over time will be
threatened with extinction. We are currently seeing the worst
die-off of species since the loss of the dinosaurs and in fact
scientists say that we may be experiencing the beginning of the
sixth mass extinction. Unlike the preceding five mass extinctions,
this one is human caused.<br>
- Threats to the food chain are becoming evident and will continue
to be more pronounced. Warmer waters can lead to a decline in
oxygen causing dead zones threatening important U.S. fisheries.
Increased CO2 in the oceans is causing them to become increasingly
acidic, threatening many species including important food
commodities. On land the changing climate over time is expected to
damage staple crops, and global food security may be threatened.<br>
- The Department of Defense states, "Global climate change will
aggravate problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental
degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political
institutions that threaten stability in a number of countries."<br>
</blockquote>
Those most vulnerable to climate related health effects - such as
children, the elderly, the poor, and future generations - face
disproportionate risks. Studies also find that climate change poses
particular threats to the health, well-being, and ways of life of
indigenous peoples in the United States.<br>
Several assessments state that we may be approaching critical,
poorly understood thresholds that may lead to rapid and potentially
permanent changes not predicted by climate models that could cause
abrupt and serious impacts for society and ecosystems.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://saveepaalums.info/resisting-the-trump-de-regulatory-agenda-talking-points/defending-the-clean-power-plan/">http://saveepaalums.info/resisting-the-trump-de-regulatory-agenda-talking-points/defending-the-clean-power-plan/</a><br>
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</font><b>How to Submit Your Comments</b><br>
EPA will accept written comments on the proposal until 11:59 p.m.
Eastern time on December 15, 2017. To submit on line, click on the
following link:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0355">https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0355</a><br>
If you wish to submit comments by mail or by fax see directions at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets</a>.
Comments should be identified by the following docket number:
EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0355.<br>
If your comments include confidential business information, see <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets</a>
for further direction.<br>
<b>There Is More That You Can Do</b><br>
It would be great if well-reasoned, fact-based comments were enough
to win the day, but in today’s deregulatory environment, raising the
political stakes of regulatory rollbacks is crucial to stopping or
slowing them down. Submitting comments is a good first step. For
rules that are particularly important to you, please consider taking
one or more of the following steps, too.<br>
<b>Write to your members of Congress and other elected officials. </b>
Let them know your concerns and ask them to weigh in on this
rollback, and speak out publically in favor of the CPP. You can find
contact information for your member of Congress and other elected
officials at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials">https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials</a>.<br>
<b>Write letters to the editor and even op-eds in your local papers.</b>
Letters to the editor should be fairly brief.<br>
<b>Organize or participate in letter-writing campaigns.</b><br>
<b>Join or organize demonstrations.</b><br>
Talk to your friends, colleagues and neighbors and encourage them to
comment and otherwise join in this effort. Voicing your concerns on
social media can be a very effective way to spread the word.<br>
Finally, and perhaps most important, one of the most effective
things that you can do is to organize or joins efforts to encourage
action on climate change by your state or city. ..<br>
more information at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://saveepaalums.info/resisting-the-trump-de-regulatory-agenda-talking-points/defending-the-clean-power-plan/">http://saveepaalums.info/resisting-the-trump-de-regulatory-agenda-talking-points/defending-the-clean-power-plan/</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3S0fnOr0M">This Day in
Climate History October 22, 2006</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
October 22, 2006: Newsweek's Jerry Adler acknowledges that his
magazine dropped the ball in April 1975 when it ran a story claiming
that global cooling was on the horizon - a story that went against
the scientific evidence of the era pointing to global warming.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-prediction-perils-111927">http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-prediction-perils-111927</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3S0fnOr0M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3S0fnOr0M</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/11/10/203320/killing-the-myth-of-the-1970s-global-cooling-scientific-consensus/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/11/10/203320/killing-the-myth-of-the-1970s-global-cooling-scientific-consensus/</a></font><br>
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