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As Climate Heats Up, Arctic Residents Struggle To Keep Their Homes [1]

"In the spring, after the permafrost thaws and the ground settles, Wilson Andrew Sr takes a wrench to the metal pilings that hold up the foundation of his house in Atmautluak, Alaska, and makes it level again. He cranks the screws until the foundation flattens out, level with the ground. At least for now."

Source: Guardian [2], 03/16/2016

"Canadian Companies Supporting Fight Against U.S. Climate Plan: Report" [3]

"Many large Canadian companies are financing legal action and lobbying against President Barack Obama’s climate change plan, putting the public and their investors at risk, said a new report released on Monday by an investment services organization."

Source: National Observer [4], 03/16/2016

"Antarctica’s Ice Is Being Carved Up From Below" [5]

"Two years ago, a pair of scientific studies documented that the glaciers of West Antarctica, which hold back over 3 meters (nearly 10 feet) of potential sea level rise, are melting and retreating from below. The cause? It appears that these glaciers, which are perched on the seafloor deep below the ocean surface, are being lapped at by flows of warm ocean currents."

Source: Wash Post [6], 03/16/2016

"Why Didn't An Illinois Professor Have To Disclose GMO Funding?" [7]

"A WBEZ investigation has found that a University of Illinois professor was given more than $57,000 over less than two years from GMO maker Monsanto to travel, write and speak about genetically modified organisms--including lobbying federal officials to halt further regulation on GMO products."

Source: WBEZ [8], 03/16/2016

"Senate to Vote on GMO Food Labeling Bill" [9]

"The Senate will grapple this week with perhaps the most contentious issue in the food industry: whether the government should require mandatory labeling on foods containing genetically engineered ingredients."

Source: NPR [10], 03/16/2016

"Tainted-Water Worries Spread to Vermont Village" [11]

"NORTH BENNINGTON, Vt. — Above the Walloomsac River, where ramshackle farmhouses sit just downhill from tidy homes with organic gardens out back, the old ChemFab plant was, for many, a respected local employer from the days when this village’s prosperity depended on industry."

Source: NY Times [12], 03/16/2016

After Flint, Watchdog Urges Texas To Warn Residents About Arsenic [13]

"An environmental watchdog group analyzed a decade worth of water data in Texas, finding that 65 communities have exceeded federal limits on arsenic. The state has reassured residents that the water is still safe to drink."

Source: Christian Science Monitor [14], 03/16/2016

"House Panel Denounces E.P.A. Actions in Flint Crisis" [15]

"Members of a congressional oversight committee excoriated a former Environmental Protection Agency official on Tuesday for not responding more forcefully when she learned last year that Flint, Mich., was not adding a chemical to its new water supply that would have prevented the city’s pipes from corroding and leaching lead."

Source: NY Times [16], 03/16/2016

"Obama Pulls Plans To Allow Oil Drilling Off Southern Atlantic Coast" [17]

"The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it is dropping its year-old plan to allow companies to search and drill for oil and natural gas in the Atlantic Ocean off of four southeastern states."

Source: Wash Post [18], 03/16/2016

Japanese Taxpayers Picking Up $100B Tab for Fukushima Nuclear Disaster [19]

"Five years ago today a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of northeastern Japan unleashed a powerful, 30-foot-high tsunami that swept across the landscape, killing 15,000 people, displacing nearly 400,000 others, and triggering one of the worst nuclear disasters in history — a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant."

Source: VICE News [20], 03/15/2016

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