Hurricane Melissa Wreaks $8 Billion of Damage, Kills Dozens
The devastation from Hurricane Melissa came into focus after the record-setting storm moved past Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba with at least 33 deaths and almost $8 billion of damage in its wake.

The Trump administration’s opaque decisions during the government shutdown to permit oil and gas leasing and road building in Alaska make it hard to determine how those actions address environmental harm and can be challenged in court, environmental lawyers say.
The Trump administration is ruling out selling offshore oil and gas leases along the US East Coast, after its initial plan for auctioning them drew alarm from Republican strongholds in the Southeast.
Advocacy groups are lobbying Capitol Hill and utilities to figure out how to help low-income Americans pay their energy bills as federal aid runs out during the government shutdown.
President Donald Trump’s attacks on clean-energy projects may well inject much-needed momentum into the effort to overhaul federal permitting, some congressional leaders involved in the effort say.

Roughly a dozen governors across the political spectrum called on Congress Wednesday to reform federal regulatory and permitting processes related to energy infrastructure, citing a need to meet growing electricity demand.

The devastation from Hurricane Melissa came into focus after the record-setting storm moved past Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba with at least 33 deaths and almost $8 billion of damage in its wake.
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