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"Brazil Refuses To Join Pledge To End Deforestation" [1]

"Brazil has refused to sign up to a pact setting a deadline for ending deforestation entirely by 2030."

Source: BBC News [2], 09/25/2014

"Want to Find Out Where Your Fruit Was Grown? Good Luck" [3]

"On May 6, 2014, as I read through the morning's incoming email, a Food Safety Alert from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcing a "voluntary recall of mangoes due to possible health risk" from the bacteria Listeria caught my eye. This grabbed my attention because at the time, a handsome sunset-hued mango, purchased several days before at my neighborhood market in Portland, Oregon, was ripening on the kitchen counter."

Source: Mother Jones/FERN [4], 09/25/2014

"Businesses Won't Have To Return BP Spill Payouts, Federal Judge Says" [5]

"NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has ruled that BP must stand by the agreement made with the companies it compensated for losses after the 2010 Gulf oil spill despite the oil giant saying some claims were overestimated."

Source: AP [6], 09/25/2014

1st Amendment Alarm: USFS Says Media Need Photo Permit in Wilderness [7]

"The U.S. Forest Service has tightened restrictions on media coverage in vast swaths of the country's wild lands, requiring reporters to pay for a permit and get permission before shooting a photo or video in federally designated wilderness areas."

Source: Portland Oregonian [8], 09/25/2014

"US EPA Releases 5-Year Plan To Improve Great Lakes" [9]

"The Obama administration announced a new 5-year plan for the Great Lakes on Wednesday that will accelerate efforts to address toxic pollution, invasive species and farm runoff and restore plant and wildlife habitat."

Source: AP [10], 09/25/2014

"Obama To Designate World's Largest Marine Sanctuary in the Pacific" [11]

"President Barack Obama on Thursday will designate the largest marine sanctuary in the world in an area of the Pacific Ocean that will be off-limits to commercial fishing and deep-sea mining, the White House said on Wednesday."

Source: Reuters [12], 09/25/2014

Kids in Danger Zones: One in Three Schoolchildren at Risk from Chemical Catastrophes [13]

The Center for Effective Government (formerly OMB Watch) is releasing a new report tracing which schools are close enough to toxic and hazardous chemicals to endanger kids. Join the webinar on Friday, September 26, 2014, 2-2:30 Eastern, to preview the report, called “Kids in Danger Zones: One in Three Schoolchildren at Risk from Chemical Catastrophes.”

American Climate Values 2014: Insights by Race and Ethnicity [14]

ecoAmerica has released a new report on African, Asian, and Hispanic/Latino American attitudes, values, and motivations on climate change, and will host a webinar on this research on Oct 2nd, 1-2pm ET. All journalists are invited to register.

How Does Obama Block Open Info? AP Counts the Ways [15]

Three major journalism groups held a joint convention in Chicago September 15-17, 2014, which included a panel discussion on Obama administration secrecy. News industry leaders used the occasion to point out that the Obama administration's deeds and practices did not match its claims of transparency.

Pipeline Data, Maps Could Be a Reporting Resource — If Open [16]

There are many good investigative stories to be done about natural gas pipelines in your local area. You can get some maps and data about these pipelines if you try. Hard. The government is not going to help too much. One resource is the National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS), which allows the general public to see geodata on a county-by-county basis.

Kids in Danger Zones: One in Three Schoolchildren at Risk from Chemical Catastrophes [13]

American Climate Values 2014: Insights by Race and Ethnicity [14]

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