Weekend Reader: What would – or wouldn't – happen while our attention is diverted.

We learned a lot about double negatives and grammar this week. We didn't see a lot of headlines about rollbacks to health and environmental protections.

    
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    20 July

        Interior Department proposes a vast reworking of the Endangered Species Act
    
The revisions have wide-reaching implications, including for how the federal government would protect species from climate change. 

            www.nytimes.com
            
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        California hit its climate goal early - but its largest source of pollution keeps rising
    
California hit its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions four years early - a milestone regulators and environmentalists are cheering as more proof that you can cut pollution while growing the economy. But a closer look shows planet-warming emissions aren't declining across the board.

            www.latimes.com
            
    3h

        What if plants could make their own fertilizer - from the air?
    
Applying vast quantities of fertilizer to cropland is a major culprit behind the fact that agriculture now contributes one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.

            www.anthropocenemagazine.org
            
    3h

        US West learns to live with heightened threat of wildfire
    
An early wildfire season in the American West comes at a time when more people are building near fire-prone wildlands. These new realities have forced communities to rethink the way they prepare for wildfire.

            www.csmonitor.com
            
    3h

        Beyond recycling; these Bay Area families aim for zero waste
    
This hard-core family can fit a year's worth of waste into a mason jar. 

            www.mercurynews.com
            
    3h

        GOP candidate calls woman 'naive' for asking about climate
    
Body heat is making Earth warmer, and climate change is caused by the planet's movement toward the sun. Those are the claims of Pennsylvania's Republican gubernatorial candidate, former state Sen. Scott Wagner.

            www.eenews.net
            
    3h

        California wants to reinvent the power grid. So what could go wrong?
    
Two decades ago, a new approach to power delivery led to blackouts. Now the state is considering another energy makeover: a regional electric grid.

            www.nytimes.com
            
    3h

        Batteries and energy storage can actually increase carbon emissions
    
Energy storage is considered a green technology. But it actually increases carbon emissions.

            www.vox.com
            
    3h

        Climate change is disrupting the planet’s seasons
    
Four decades of temperature observations show what many suspected: Human activity is disrupting the behavior of plants, animals, and the march of the seasons.

            www.bloomberg.com
            
    3h

        Ethane is about to crack in Appalachia. Now it needs a market
    
An ethane breakout from the Marcellus Shale sets up a potential showdown duel between Appalachia and the heart of the U.S. petrochemical industry along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

            www.eenews.net
            
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        Q&A about air quality and asthma with Dr. Loren Robinson at the Pennsylvania Department of Health
    
Our reporting found an asthma crisis in Pittsburgh. Politicians are starting to notice.

    19 July

        Handing out medals in the Battle of Pruitt
    
    Whistleblowers, investigative reporters, and NGO's deserve commendations for efforts to disclose the ethics scandals that ultimately forced U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt out the door.

    14 July

        Coal miners are dying of black lung.
    
    And a Kentucky law could make it harder to claim benefits.

    13 July

        Bird brained? Gull scores a ride to organic composting facility. Twice.
    
    Clearly this bird was using its head.

    13 July

        The air in Pittsburgh is unsafe to breathe for about four months a year, according to a new report
    
    "We have decades and decades of this lack of effective enforcement, and it adds up."

    12 July

        Fishermen disregard New Bedford Harbor’s lingering toxic past
    
    Officials keep dredging up PCBs and posting signs at New Bedford Harbor—but studies suggest anglers are eating too much of their contaminated catch.

    12 July

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