"For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change" [1]
"If there were one American industry that would be particularly worried about climate change it would have to be insurance, right?"
Source: NY Times [2], 05/15/2013
"If there were one American industry that would be particularly worried about climate change it would have to be insurance, right?"
"U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for overseas lobbying that promotes controversial biotech crops developed by U.S.-based Monsanto Co. and other seed makers, a report issued on Tuesday said."
Major news and journalism organizations, including the Society of Environmental Journalists, have condemned the Justice Department's seizure of Associated Press phone records as a threat to journalists' ability to report on government conduct.
SEJ takes action on FOI issues: EPA meeting, response to DOJ phone records grab.
"EWELL, Md. -- Superstorm Sandy barely laid a glove on Smith Island last fall, to hear residents tell it. Though storm-driven flooding damaged hundreds of homes in Crisfield and the rest of Somerset County, only a couple islanders got any water in their homes from the surging Chesapeake Bay."
"CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. -- It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground."
"RALEIGH — Fish in one of North Carolina’s largest watersheds are more polluted by an industrial contaminant than previously reported, and state health officials have failed to expand warnings against eating PCB-contaminated fish, according to a new study."
"BOISE, Idaho (AP) — After another dry winter across much of the West, fire officials are poised for a tough wildfire season that will be even more challenging because federal budget cuts mean fewer firefighters on the ground, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Monday."
"Genetically engineered crops that could sharply increase the use of two powerful herbicides are now unlikely to reach the market until at least 2015 because the Department of Agriculture has decided to subject the crops to more stringent environmental reviews than it had originally intended."
"Lipstick can give your lips color, sheen and texture, but may also put you at risk of ingesting potentially toxic metals, University of California, Berkeley researchers say."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/insurers-no-doubts-climate-change
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/business/insurers-stray-from-the-conservative-line-on-climate-change.html?ref=energy-environment
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-tax-dollars-promote-monsantos-gmo-crops-overseas-report
[4] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/14/us-usa-gmo-report-idUSBRE94D0IL20130514
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/j-groups-justice-dept-dragnet-threatens-all-reporting-government
[6] http://www.rcfp.org/media-organizations-call-justice-department-mitigate-damage-broad-subpoena-journalists-phone-records
[7] https://www.sej.org/sej-condemns-doj-ap-phone-records-grab
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/smith-islanders-debate-buyout-offered-state
[9] http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/blog/bs-gr-smith-island-buyout-20130512,0,6541081.story
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wind-farms-get-pass-eagle-deaths
[11] http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/ap-impact-wind-farms-pass-eagle-deaths-19173724#.UZImnsrYNR1
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/study-nc-too-slow-warn-about-yadkin-fish-contamination
[13] http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/05/13/2890356/study-nc-too-slow-to-warn-about.html
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/feds-budget-cuts-make-wildfire-season-tougher
[15] http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Feds-Budget-cuts-to-make-wildfire-season-tougher-4510944.php
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/environmental-review-delay-two-engineered-crops
[17] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/business/energy-environment/environmental-review-to-delay-two-engineered-crops.html?ref=energy-environment&_r=0
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/study-finds-possibly-toxic-metals-32-lipsticks
[19] http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Study-finds-possibly-toxic-metals-in-32-lipsticks-4508282.php
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3690
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[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3689
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3692
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3693
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3694
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3695
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5000