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Latest TipSheet Items
January 17, 2007
Climate Change: Investor Angles Heating Up
January 17, 2007–Business/finance stories are spilling over onto the environment beat, and vice versa, as the potential impacts of climate change become more tangible and costly.Water Security Measures Open to Public Review
January 17, 2007–Steps necessary to improve security at tens of thousands of US drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater facilities have become a little more definitive with the release Dec. 14, 2006, of a draft set of voluntary guidelines. (January 3, 2007
Special Issue: Year 2007 Environmental News Look-Ahead Calendar
January 3, 2007– A split-party government is likely to bring more controversy, more conflict, and more news.December 6, 2006
Feds Ready To Designate Bald Eagles As "Recovered"
December 6, 2006–After intense recovery efforts resulting in an increase from ~400 nesting pairs in 1963 to the current count of >7,000, the bald eagle may soon be removed from the USFWS list of endangered and threatened species, with monitoring ongoing for at least five more years.May 10, 2006
NGOS Fill Federal Void on Plant Hardiness Zone Changes
May 10, 2006–The American Horticultural Society and the National Arbor Day Foundation offer generalized hardiness maps as a starting point, until the US Department of Agriculture gets around to unveiling its own update.October 13, 2004
Election and Oil and Gas Drilling May Shape Sage-Grouse Story
October 13, 2004–The timing of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to propose listing of the greater sage-grouse as a threatened or endangered species is coinciding with the presidential election and the rapid expansion of the influential oil and gas industry.August 7, 2002
December 26, 2001
Ten Key Stories for 2002 That May Be Overlooked
December 26, 2001–Stories that we think will have great impact on the lives of Americans, but which we suspect will slip "under the radar" because of war-related media inattention.December 12, 2001
Air Quality Inside Airplanes Needs More Scrutiny
December 12, 2001–Is the air inside airplane cabins unhealthful? Federal Aviation Administration should undertake rigorous research to better identify problems and solutions.Food Terror: Indigestion For Security Experts
December 12, 2001–Although the US food supply remains among the safest in the world, it also remains a point of vulnerability to terrorist attack.
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