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Maine Groups Press for Ban After BPA Found in Baby and Toddler Food [1]

"Since January, baby bottles, sippy cups and reusable food containers in Maine have been free of the chemical hardening agent Bisphenol-A. Now, environmental health activists want the state to eliminate BPA from infant formula, baby and toddler foods. The move comes after tests conducted by The Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine and Mainely Moms and Dads also found BPA in those products."

Source: Maine Public Broadcasting Network [2], 02/15/2012

Leak Exposes Heartland Institute Campaign To Undermine Climate Science [3]

"Libertarian thinktank keeps prominent sceptics on its payroll and relies on millions in funding from carbon industry, papers suggest."

Source: Guardian [4], 02/15/2012

Consortium Launches Web Site on Feedlot Air Pollution [5]

The confidential National Air Quality Site Assessment Tool helps the livestock owner/operator figure out how changing on-site practices can reduce emissions of ammonia, methane, volatile organic compounds, hydrogen sulfide, fine particulates, and odors. This may be useful for journalists; whether an owner/operator will discuss the details of their operation or not, there's a story.

TipSheet Publication To Be Suspended [6]

SEJ regrets to announce that biweekly publication of the TipSheet will be suspended after the next issue pending renewal of adequate funding.There is some chance the TipSheet may be reinvented. In order for this to happen, it will help if you let us know what you did and didn't like about the TipSheet.

Maryland: "Deadly Virus Hits Turtles, Tadpoles in Montgomery County" [7]

"Maryland biologists studying box turtles rescued from the bulldozers on the Intercounty Connector construction site have made a grisly find: An alarming number of the tiny turtles later died, and biologists say their demise appears to be unrelated to the highway."

Source: Wash Post [8], 02/14/2012

"Amazon Defenders Face Death Or Exile" [9]

"Brazilian activists who inform on illegal loggers laying waste to the rainforests can expect a visit from the gunmen."

Source: Guardian [10], 02/14/2012

With Tips From Whistle-Blowers, More Hands on Deck in Pollution Cases [11]

"Seafaring whistle-blowers, frequently seeking a financial bounty, have become one of prosecutors’ most potent weapons against maritime polluters, providing the backbone for a growing number of cases the federal government has pursued in Baltimore and other port cities across the country."

Source: NY Times [12], 02/14/2012

Pennsylvania: "EPA Probing Washington County Shale Operations" [13]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether specific Marcellus Shale drilling and compressor station operations in Washington County have caused environmental damage that violates federal regulations."

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [14], 02/14/2012

Chicago: "Power Station’s Closing Could Create Problems" [15]

The closing of an 83-year-old coal-fired power plant near Chicago, one of the area's top polluters, will have economic consequences.

Source: Chicago News Co-op [16], 02/14/2012

"USDA Sees Corn Stocks Double Next Year" [17]

"A U.S. government report on Monday showed farmers in the United States will plant the largest area with corn this spring since World War Two, which could double the razor-thin stocks of this year and help defray costs to consumers and food companies."

Source: Reuters [18], 02/14/2012

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