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SEJ Urges EPA Press Office To Open up Agency Info to News Media [1]

On January 27, 2012, SEJ wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, after unreturned phone calls and ignored emails, in an attempt to get the agency to resume quarterly conference calls to discuss access issues and the run-around SEJ members endure when trying to do their jobs.

SEJ Condemns House Science Panel Arrest of Journalist [2]

Read SEJ's February 6, 2012, letter to Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chair Harris condemning ejection of Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Josh Fox from the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology's subcommittee hearing on EPA's policies and enforcement of water quality issues surrounding natural gas drilling or "fracking."

"Consumer Groups Want Tougher Probe of Engineered Salmon" [3]

"Three U.S. consumer groups petitioned the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to subject a new genetically engineered salmon to a more rigorous review process than is now in place before the fish can be approved as safe to eat."

Source: Reuters [4], 02/08/2012

"Modified Crops Tap a Wellspring of Protest" [5]

"Silent in flannel shirts and ponytails, farmers from Saskatchewan and South Dakota, Mississippi and Massachusetts lined the walls of a packed federal courtroom in Manhattan last week, as their lawyers told a judge that they were no longer able to keep genetically modified crops from their fields."

Source: NY Times [6], 02/08/2012

"Trouble in Maldives as Eco Icon President Is Forced Out" [7]

"The president of the Maldives resigned yesterday in what one aide described as a coup d'etat."

Source: Scotsman [8], 02/08/2012

"Low-Lying Louisiana Prepares for Sea Level To Rise" [9]

"NEW ORLEANS -- A scientific report issued by Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration predicts that the Louisiana coast could see about 3 feet of sea level rise along the already low and vulnerable Louisiana coast by 2100 -- a prediction that leaves this Cajun coast drowning and under siege from storm surge for decades to come."

Source: AP [10], 02/08/2012

Mining Dispute Harkens Back To Calif. Foothills' Wild Gold Rush Era [11]

"PLACERVILLE, Calif. - California's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in the Sierra Nevada foothills that some officials describe as one of the most egregious cases of illegal mining they have ever encountered."

Source: AP [12], 02/08/2012

Atrazine and "The Frog of War" [13]

"When biologist Tyrone Hayes discovered that a top-selling herbicide [atrazine] messes with sex hormones, its manufacturer went into battle mode. Thus began one of the weirdest feuds in the history of science."

Source: Mother Jones [14], 02/08/2012

Messages Show Conflict Within NRC After Japan's Earthquake And Tsunami [15]

"In the confusion following the earthquake and tsunami that damaged Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex last March, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it was standing by to help. But a trove of e-mails posted on the NRC's Web site shows an agency struggling to figure out how to respond and how to deal with the American public while cutting through what one official called "the fog of information" coming out of Japan."

Source: Wash Post [16], 02/08/2012

"Nepal's Vulture 'Restaurants' For Endangered Birds" [17]

"In the village of Pithauli, surrounded by ripening mustard fields, a woman hauls a cow carcass on a trolley, drops it in an open field, then runs and hides in a nearby hut as dozens of vultures swoop down."

Source: Reuters [18], 02/08/2012

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