The Environmental Law Institute's 2014 Policy Forum, taking place in Washington, DC, will focus on state leadership in environmental protection, examining the inherent tension underlying state-federal partnerships and inconsistencies in state approaches to cooperative federalism. Register by Oct 14th.
The Environmental Law Institute's annual U.S. Supreme Court update for the 2014 term will feature ELI President John Cruden leading a discussion (in Washington, DC and via teleconference) with two of the most distinguished environmental law school professors in the nation to review the important Clean Air Act cases decided this year, and forecast their implications for future rule making, particularly in the greenhouse gas arena. Register by Sep 26.
The National Press Foundation is accepting applications until Oct 14th for its 6th all-expenses-paid Cancer Issues program for journalists. The Cancer Issues 2014 program takes place December 7 – 10, 2014 at the NPF office in Washington, DC.
"Banamichi, Mexico - Liseth Mendez and Judas Barrios milk two cows covered in a cloud of tiny persistent flies as the sun taints in red the surrounding mountains near a ranch less than a kilometre from the Sonora River."
Researchers are finding increasing evidence that environmental factors -- ranging from exposure to toxic chemicals to physical and mental exercise -- can have important effects on aging brains. While older people may have a surprising capacity for neurological regeneration, chemical exposures (even exposures earlier in life) have been linked to neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
"New York City children exposed in the womb to moderate levels of two plasticizers had a 72 to 78 percent higher chance of developing asthma, according to a new study published [Wednesday]."
"It's like Florida's version of The Blob. Slow moving glops of toxic algae in the northeast Gulf of Mexico are killing sea turtles, sharks and fish, and threatening the waters and beaches that fuel the region's economy."
"Three conservation groups accused Dominion Virginia Power Wednesday of illegally discharging coal ash waste into the Potomac River."
This Bay Area Tropical Forest Network event takes place at 6pm on the Stanford Campus. Speaker Luis Fernandez, a tropical ecologist at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology and director of the Carnegie Amazon Mercury Project, will discuss the dynamics that have made artisanal gold mining both the primary driver of deforestation in the Western Amazon and the number one source of anthropogenic mercury in the world today, and describe its effects on forests, wildlife and humans.
"Editors and reporters meeting in Chicago raised concerns Wednesday about what they described as a lack of access and transparency undermining journalists' work, several blaming the current White House for setting standards for secrecy that are spreading nationwide."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/calendar/policy-forum-role-state-leadership-cooperative-federalism
[2] https://www.sej.org/calendar/supreme-court-review-preview-0
[3] https://www.sej.org/calendar/national-press-foundation-6th-all-expenses-paid-cancer-issues-program-journalists
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/mine-spill-devastates-mexican-farmers
[5] https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mine-spill-devastates-mexican-farmers-094719947.html#y866HQ2
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/environmental-factors-affect-aging-brains
[7] http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/122-A238/
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/kids-exposed-womb-plasticizers-more-likely-have-asthma
[9] http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2014/sep/child-asthma-phthalates
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/red-tide-florida-smothering-everything-its-path
[11] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/red-tide-florida_n_5834052.html?utm_hp_ref=green
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/leaking-dominion-virginia-power-coal-ash-ponds-spur-complaint
[13] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/coal-ash-virginia-dominion-power_n_5839838.html?1411008509
[14] https://www.sej.org/calendar/illegal-gold-mining-mercury-contamination-and-deforestation-peruvian-amazon
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/journalists-criticize-white-house-secrecy
[16] http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/journalists-criticize-white-house-secrecy-25580933
[17] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[18] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3325
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3322
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3323
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3324
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3327
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3328
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3329
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3330
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5022