President Donald Trump’s appointee to the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Daniel Simmons, is a prominent critic of renewable energy.

Canada now gets two-thirds of its energy from renewable sources.

An abandoned natural gas pipeline in Colorado explodes, destroying a house and killing two people.  

Brazilians are killing monkeys, which they falsely believe to be responsible for an outbreak of yellow fever. Local authorities are trying to dissuade them, since monkeys’ susceptibility to the disease makes them a valuable indicator of where it is spreading. (Yellow fever is actually spread by mosquitoes.) 

On the eve of the nationwide Climate March, the EPA scrubs its website of references to climate change to “reflect the approach of new leadership.” 

Researchers investigate an “unusual mortality event”: Since the beginning of 2016, 41 humpback whales have died along the eastern seaboard. 

A female orca found dead in Scotland had levels of toxic PCBs in her system high enough to make her infertile. Her pod, the last remaining resident pod in the UK, will likely go extinct. 

Trump signs an executive order seeking to expand oil drilling along the U.S. continental shelf. In particular, he seeks to overturn President Obama’s ban on drilling in Arctic waters and on the Atlantic coast. Ten environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, file suit challenging the order. 

Indiana governor Gary Holcomb (R) signs a bill that sharply restricts net metering, the practice that allows people to sell their rooftop-solar power to local utilities at retail rates. The move is expected to greatly slow the growth of the state’s solar sector.

Gray wolves accustomed to human wolf-watchers in Yellowstone National Park will be easy prey when Wyoming opens a wolf-hunting season outside the park this fall. 

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