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IL Grants Ameren Reprieve From Cleaning Up Massive Downstate Coal Plant [1]

"Efforts to clean up one of the largest industrial polluters in Illinois will be delayed until the end of the decade after a state panel voted Thursday to give the owner of a massive downstate power plant more time to slash its lung-damaging emissions."

Source: Chicago Tribune [2], 09/21/2012

"Lawyers Go West as Climate Litigation Warms Up" [3]

"SAN FRANCISCO -- Next month, the climate change litigation circus leaves Washington, D.C. First stop: the James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse."

Source: Greenwire [4], 09/21/2012

"Honeybee Homicide Case Against Syngenta Pesticide Unproven" [5]

"British scientists have shot down a study on declining honeybee populations that triggered a French ban on a pesticide made by Swiss agrochemicals group Syngenta."

Source: Reuters [6], 09/21/2012

"Obama To Name Colo.'s Chimney Rock Ruins as National Monument" [7]

"President Obama plans to bypass Congress and sign an executive order [Friday]designating the ancient Chimney Rock ruins in southwest Colorado as a new national monument, the administration announced late yesterday."

Source: Greenwire [8], 09/21/2012

"Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Shuts Down Unexpectedly" [9]

"Three Mile Island plant, scene of the worst nuclear power accident in the US, shut down automatically after failure of a coolant pump. Officials say the Three Mile Island shutdown poses no threat."

Source: AP [10], 09/21/2012

"Avian Malaria in Alaska: The Climate Change Connection" [11]

"A team of biologists has just announced the first documented case of bird-to-bird malaria transmission in Alaska. Writing in the journal PLOS ONE, they've shown that this frequently fatal avian illness, which is normally associated with the tropics and temperate areas, may be expanding its range. Fortunately, avian malaria doesn't affect humans, co-author Ravinder Sehgal of San Francisco State University said, but the findings are particularly significant from a bird conservation as well as a climate change standpoint."

Source: Climate Central [12], 09/21/2012

"Koch Brothers Cashing In 220,000 Acres of Tar Sands Holdings" [13]

"Recent action by Koch Oil Sands pulls the curtain back further on the Koch family's deep but quiet involvement in Canada's oil sands industry."

Source: InsideClimate News [14], 09/21/2012

Loophole: Lax Rules for Drillers that Inject Pollutants Into the Earth [15]

"Injection wells used to dispose of the nation's most toxic waste are showing increasing signs of stress as regulatory oversight falls short and scientific assumptions prove flawed."

Source: ProPublica [16], 09/21/2012

California’s Cap-and-Trade Program — What Journalists Need to Know [17]

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalists and SEJ present a free webinar on California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program, which starts Nov. 14. Don’t miss this informative, hour-long webinar with University of California, Los Angeles economist Matthew Kahn.

Lewis M. Branscomb Science and Democracy Forum-Sept 19th, 25th [18]

Join the Union of Concerned Scientists (USC) Center for Science and Democracy for a forum on barriers to citizen access to governmental scientific information. Attend the symposium via webcast or in person at the Newseum (limited seating) from 8:30 to Noon EDT. The session is free but requires registration.

California’s Cap-and-Trade Program — What Journalists Need to Know [17]

Lewis M. Branscomb Science and Democracy Forum-Sept 19th, 25th [18]

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