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Daily Environment Report
August 07, 2017 - Number 150
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Leading the News
Climate Change < 5 np Vow to Keep Door Open to Climeb I Convinces Few President Donald Trump's vow to keep the door open to an international climate deal--even as he notifies the UN the U.S. is out--rings hollow given he has long derided it as bad for the economy.
General Policy
Week Ahead: Groundwater Group H
perfund Plans
The National Ground Water Association, Ecological Society of America, and other groups are
taking advantage of August's legislative lull in Washington to hold large-scale environment
and energy events during the week of Aug. 7.
Superfund
EPA Wic
iperfund Cleanups Near Public Housing
The EPA's discovery of lead contamination near low-income public-housing units has
expanded some investigations and broadened its collection of Superfund site location data.
News
Air Pollution
VW Executive Schmidt Pleads Guilty
:o Emissions Scandal
Oliver Schmidt, a Volkswagen AG compliance executive charged in the company's
emissions-cheating scandal, pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Detroit to conspiracy
and violating the U.S. Clean Air Act.
Air Pollution
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Waste Industry to Save Millions Under EPA Monitoring Proposal Waste storage and processing facilities would save $28 million under an EPA proposal to ease air pollution monitoring requirements.
Climate Change Brazil to Get $10.6 Million in Climate Aid from Germany Germany agreed to donate 9 million euros (US$10.6 million) to Brazil, bolstering the South American country's efforts to reach Paris Climate Agreement targets it set in 2015.
Coal Mining As Trump Sings Coal's Praises, Mine Fatalities Are on the Rise Ray Hatfield Jr. was six months into his latest coal job when he was crushed to death in a Kentucky mine.
Coal-Fired Power Plants Peabody Mine Survival May Rest on Navajo Coal Gasification Plan The biggest coal-fired generating station west of the Mississippi could be replaced by a coal gasification plant, raising concerns among environmentalists as well as questions from financial analysts about the economic costs and risks.
Contribution Henkel Must Defend Superfund Suit tn Kansas, Despite Lack of Ties Henkel Corp., a Delaware company, must defend a Superfund suit in Kansas because it registered to do business there, the District of Kansas ruled (Henkel Corp. v. PAC Operating LP, 2017 BL 271438, D. Kan., No. 15-CV-09260, 8/3/17).
Criminal Enforcement
VW Executive Schmidt Pleads Gi
:o Emissions Scandal
Oliver Schmidt, a Volkswagen AG compliance executive charged in the company's
emissions-cheating scandal, pleaded guilty Aug. 4 in federal court in Detroit to conspiracy
and violating the U.S. Clean Air Act.
Energy Australian Prime Minister Calls Crisis Meeting with Power Bosses Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called a meeting with the nation's major power companies citing concerns over soaring electricity prices and a lack of transparency in the market.
Energy Keystone XL Foes Avoid Climate in Red State Pipeline Battle You won't hear much about climate change coming from Keystone XL foes as they argue against TransCanada Corp.'s push to get the final state approval needed to build the pipeline.
Enforcement States Should Be Front Line of Enforcement, EPA Official Says The Environmental Protection Agency will look to the states as the first line of environmental enforcement as part of Washington's cooperative federalism approach, a senior environment official said.
Environmental Reviews Runway Expansion at Portland, Ore., Airport Upheld by Court Federal aviation officials didn't act arbitrarily when they decided to forgo a full environmental
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impact statement on a third runway at a Portland, Ore.-area airport, a federal appeals court ruled.
Mergers and Acquisitions Dow, DuPont Set Aug. 31 for Closing of Historic Chemical Merger Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co., the two largest U.S. chemical makers, have received all the regulatory approvals needed to close their historic merger.
Natural Resources Interior to Kill Obama Rule Raising Coal, Oil Royalties An Obama-era regulation governing how royalties are calculated for coal, natural gas and oil extracted on federal lands will be repealed by the Trump administration.
Renewable Energy Equis Energy Building $1.2 Billion Australian Solar Farm Equis Pte Ltd., an investment company based in Singapore, is building a A$1.5-billion ($1.2 billion) solar farm in eastern Australia.
Renewable Energy
Green Power Still Tied Up with R
e in Macron's France
Some eighty days into Emmanuel Macron's new job, Europe's biggest renewable energy
companies are still waiting for the French president to make good on campaign pledges to
boost green power.
Renewable Energy Long-Planned Cap Cod Wind Farm Gets Environmental OK A long-stalled wind farm planned off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., took a step closer to possible construction after federal energy regulators said the Cape Wind project won't harm the ocean environment.
Renewable Energy U.K. Batteries for Residential Solar to Get Tax Discount The U.K. government will offer a tax discount to homes installing batteries at the same time as solar panels, a move that could make renewable energy investments more attractive, according to an industry organization.
Shareholder Proposals
Church of England Rallies Invest
Fight, Returns 17%
President Donald Trump may have quit the Paris climate accord, but shareholders aren't
going to let carbon-producing U.S. companies off the hook. Witness the investor victory over
Exxon Mobil Corp, management on May 31, a day before the Trump decision.
Water Pollution
Duke Energy A:
suit Tossed Over `Forum Shopping'
A federal district judge in Virginia tossed a Duke Energy coal ash lawsuit over what he said
is "strategic forum shopping" by the utility.
Water Pollution r < m dered to Dig Up, Move Co I ri at Gallatin Plant The Tennessee Valley Authority must excavate coal ash stored at its Gallatin, Tenn., plant near Nashville and dispose of it in a lined landfill, a remedy for water pollution estimated to cost some $2 billion, a federal court ordered.
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