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Judge restores Obama-era drilling ban in Arctic
President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he reversed bans on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, a U.S. judge said in a ruling that restored the Obama-era restrictions. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason in a decision late Friday threw out Trump's executive order that overturned the bans that comprised a key part of Obama's environmental legacy.
Gov directs DEC to ban the use of chlorpyrifos
After vetoing a bill to ban the use of the insecticide chlorpyrifos in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has directed the state Department of Environmental Conservation to take immediate action to do just that.
Study: Warming makes US West megadrought worst in modern age
A two-decade-long dry spell that has parched much of the western United States is turning into one of the deepest megadroughts in the region in more than 1,200 years, a new study found. And about half of this historic drought can be blamed on man-made global warming, according to a study in Thursday’s journal Science.