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| Green River, Paradise, Kentucky, circa 1900 |
The U.S. House was set to pass a bill
loaded with policy riders to fund the EPA and Interior Department next year, but the
Confederate flag got in the way and the vote was cancelled. An Appeals Court
decided that the USEPA's approach to Chesapeake Bay pollution reduction is legal.
Several organizations and the
Oklahoma Attorney General filed U.S. District Court challenges to the Obama administration's new water rule.
High water nitrate levels plague 60 Iowa cities. Wisconsin decided to
do away with microplastics in cosmetics. Runoff in the Missouri River Basin
remained above average, including in the
Little Platte River and Fishing River in Kansas City. The Lower Mississippi River
is rising. A Colorado state water plan
proposes moving more water from west of the Rockies into the Platter River Basin. Corn refiners think "Big Sugar's" federal subsidies are an
unsustainable political burden. Invasive
zebra mussels were found in Fish Trap Lake, Minnesota. A new Grafton, Illinois Asian carp processing plant
passed its first tests. Wisconsin's state
budget gave an environmental insurance "free pass" to an energy company's pipeline running through Dane County. "
Refracking" is the new fracking. The amount of coal produced from Appalachian mountaintop-removal mining has
dropped over 60 percent since 2008. Peabody Energy Corp. really
doesn't like a 34-year-old John Prine protest song about Peabody's Kentucky coal mining practices. And last but not least, Wyoming regulators will let Peabody Energy
provide its own financial assurances for three mining operations in state.
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