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Trump Moves to Exempt Big Projects From Environmental Review

@BreaknNewsJanuary 9, 2020

by @BreaknNewsJanuary 9, 202008

WASHINGTON — The White House on Thursday will introduce the first major changes to the nation’s benchmark environmental protection law in more than three decades, moving to ease approval of pipelines and other major energy and infrastructure projects without detailed environmental review. Many of the changes to the law —......

Property

One Small House in Boise, One Big Step in Homeownership – Home

@BreaknNewsJanuary 8, 2020

by @BreaknNewsJanuary 8, 2020011

(NewsUSA) – There came a point in Meghanne’s 29-year-old life when she decided it was time to “be an adult and buy a house.” And as a loan officer, she wanted to practice what she preached about investing in homeownership. Then again, living on a dairy farm near Boise, Idaho,......

Environment

The big science and environment stories of 2019

@BreaknNewsDecember 25, 2019

by @BreaknNewsDecember 25, 2019013

This year, millions of people around the world mobilised in protest to highlight the dire emergency facing our planet. Could 2019 prove to be the year when talk turned to action on the climate crisis? We looked back at some of the biggest stories of the year in science and......

Environment

U.N. Climate Talks End With Big Polluters Blocking Stronger Action

@BreaknNewsDecember 15, 2019

by @BreaknNewsDecember 15, 2019013

United Nations climate talks ended early Sunday in Madrid with big polluting countries blocking an agreement to enhance climate targets and deferring until next year a set of rules on international carbon trading. The United States, which is planning to abandon the Paris climate agreement next year and thus may......

Environment

GPS for Air Travel Came With Big Downsides: Noise, Then Lawsuits

@BreaknNewsNovember 18, 2019

by @BreaknNewsNovember 18, 2019017

As flight paths changed, residents of Boston; San Francisco; Culver City, Calif.; and Washington, D.C., sued the F.A.A. over the resulting increase in noise. The city of Phoenix brought the first successful lawsuit and had the flight paths reversed in 2017. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport tallied fewer than 25......