Suit Aims To Stop Logging Near Rio Grande
Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging a National Fores logging project in Colorado that would impact the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
Source: ENS, 06/03/2009
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"Possible Changes to House Climate Bill"
Various House committees will try to remake the climate bill in a shape favored by the interests they represent, before it faces more amendments on the floor this summer.
Source: Reuters, 06/03/2009
"Court Battles Loom Over Gray Wolf In West"
"A pair of federal judges will decide which states in the Northern Rockies have enough gray wolves to allow public hunting, as the bitter debate over the region's wolves heads to courts in Wyoming and Montana."
Source: NPR, 06/03/2009
"California Senate Approves Ban on BPA in Plastics"
California's Senate narrowly passes a ban on BPA, a chemical that threatens child development, in baby bottles and sippy cups. Industry groups are mounting a big PR and lobbying blitz to stop it in the state Assembly.
Source: LA Times, 06/03/2009
"FDA Reviewing Decision on Safety of BPA"
After a letter from key Congressmen, the FDA is reviewing its Bush-era decision that BPA, a chemical used in baby bottles and food containers, is safe.
Source: AP, 06/03/2009
Study Finds Higher Risk from Soot
A new look at the data shows that mortality among people exposed to tiny soot particles is twice as high as previously thought.
Source: NYTimes, 06/03/2009
Bate and Switch
A little-known figure at the American Enterprise institute has been involved for years in discrediting established science to push an anti-regulatory agenda.
Source: NRNS, 06/02/2009
Old-Fashioned Reporting Turns Good Stories to Gold
By MIKE DUNNE
Two members of the Society of Environmental Journalists honored recently for their investigative reporting efforts say that digging through records and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting helped them make good stories great.
Ken Ward Jr. of The Charleston Gazette was the winner of the Scripps Howard Edward Meeman Award for environmental reporting – the third time he was so honored. His winning work focused on a coal silo permit that should not have been issued and was revoked thanks to his reporting.
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Climate-Change Skeptics In Europe? Mostly Missing In Action
By PAUL D. THACKER
Where are the global warming skeptics in Europe?
If you canvas a wide variety of news (what journalist doesn't?) and read some newspapers in Europe, you'll notice something about their coverage of global warming: no skeptics. That's right. The media coverage of high-profile global warming skeptics is pretty much an American phenomenon, according to some noted journalists who cover the issue outside the United States.
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The Beat: Leaking Gas Tanks And Chemical Pollution Are Common Focus
Ever wonder what lies beneath your feet – what's down there in the ground on which we walk? The Toledo Blade's Tom Henry has an editor who asked that question and the result was an interesting look at what the government is doing – or not doing – to clean up gasoline spills from leaky underground tanks.
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