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"Coal Keeps Sliding As OPEC-Like Tactic Stymied By Dollar" [1]

"Coal prices, already down 52 percent since 2011, are forecast to keep falling. The rout shows that exporters’ OPEC-like tactics of trying to squeeze out high-cost producers have been frustrated by the rising dollar."

Source: Bloomberg [2], 02/02/2015

"Here's How To End Iowa's Great Nitrate Fight" [3]

It's not just the application of nitrogen fertilizer to farmlands that causes nitrate pollution of water -- it's the timing of that application and the runoff that results. One solution seems to be winter cover crops.

Source: NPR [4], 02/02/2015

"Report: Sandy Was Wake-Up Call We Better Heed" [5]

"A new Army Corps of Engineers report warns that unless coastal residents and state and local leaders from the Carolinas to Maine rethink their approach to shoreline development, the next big storm will be equal to or worse than Hurricane Sandy – with its $65 billion in losses, 159 deaths and 650,000 homes damaged or destroyed."

Source: Wilmington News Journal [6], 02/02/2015

"NASA Launches Earth-Observing Satellite on Third Try" [7]

"Amid growing concern about global weather patterns, a rocket roared into space Saturday carrying a NASA satellite that will give scientists new tools to forecast weather, track drought and monitor climate change."

Source: LA Times [8], 02/02/2015

Obama's 2016 Budget Urges Deeper State Cuts To Power Plant Emissions [9]

"President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget proposes $7.4 billion to fund clean energy technologies and a $4 billion fund to encourage U.S. states to make faster and deeper cuts to emissions from power plants, officials told Reuters."

Source: Reuters [10], 02/02/2015

DEADLINE: Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting Proposals [11]

In These Times' Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting invites journalists to submit story proposals for consideration for funding by the Institute and subsequent publication in In These Times — a national, independent progressive magazine. Deadline: Apr 10, 2023.

DEADLINE: Google Journalism Fellowship [12]

This program is for undergraduate and graduate students of all disciplines interested in using technology to tell stories in new and dynamic ways. Fellows will spend Summer 2015 contributing to a variety of organizations — from those that are steeped in investigative journalism to those working for press freedom around the world and from those forging new approaches to reporting to those that are helping the industry figure out its future in the digital age. Cash stipend. Deadline: Jan 31st.

"EPA: Enforcement Officials Up in Arms Over Anti-Gun Push" [13]

"A few years back, U.S. EPA enforcement agents tracked a Utah environmental fugitive to a trailer parked at a marina in the Florida Keys. Larkin Baggett, one of EPA's 'most wanted' criminals at the time, appeared in the trailer doorway sweeping an assault rifle toward the approaching EPA agents and local cops, saying things like, 'I won't go,' according to court documents. The officers opened fire, wounding Baggett and taking him into custody."

Source: Greenwire [14], 01/30/2015

"US-Backed Mexico Dam Project Triggered Protest, Rare Defeat" [15]

"SANTA URSULA, Mexico — People in the hamlet of Santa Ursula began to worry when the logging started. In a few short weeks, more than a mile of densely forested riverbank was stripped from the Arroyo Sal to make way for heavy dredging equipment."

Source: AP [16], 01/30/2015

"Battle Over Climate Science Curriculum Heats Up" [17]

"A fierce debate is raging in West Virginia over a new set of science standards for public schools that would acknowledge climate change as real and man-made."

Source: Aljazeera America [18], 01/30/2015

DEADLINE: Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting Proposals [11]

DEADLINE: Google Journalism Fellowship [12]

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