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Obama Administration Approves Arctic Ocean Drilling [1]

"The Obama administration said Monday it was moving forward with oil-drilling leases off the coast of Alaska issued by the Bush administration in 2008, a victory for oil companies in the battle over Arctic Ocean drilling."

Source: Wall St. Journal [2], 10/05/2011

"EPA Reveals Jackson's Preferred Path on Ozone Rule" [3]

"U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson was planning to set a stricter nationwide limit on ground-level ozone when the White House axed the plan last month, the 468-page rulemaking package prepared by the agency yesterday shows."

Source: Greenwire [4], 10/05/2011

DEADLINE: Pakistan-United States Journalists Exchange [5]

The East-West Center in Honolulu is accepting applications until October 12th for the 2012 Pakistan-United States Journalists Exchange, March 21-April 7, 2012. Pakistani journalists visit Washington, D.C., New York City and Columbia, Missouri. U.S. journalists visit Islamabad and Karachi, Pakistan.

West Coast Premiere of Documentary 'Greening the Revolution' (in Newport Coast, CA) [6]

On 10/18, the 'CINEMA SAGE HILL' free community film series will feature the West Coast Premiere of documentary 'GREENING THE REVOLUTION' in Newport Coast, CA.

International Journalists Convene at SEJ Miami, October 19-23 [7]

For our 21st Annual Conference in Miami, SEJ has partnered with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Americas Business Council Foundation and PODER magazine to bring journalists (at least 22 of them) and speakers from Latin America and abroad to benefit from and contribute to this outstanding gathering.

"U-Md. 'Watershed' Home Wins Solar Decathlon" [8]

"A green home designed and built by University of Maryland students took top overall honors in this year’s U.S. Energy Department Solar Decathlon, which aims to showcase innovative and affordable solar-powered homes."

Source: Wash Post [9], 10/04/2011

"Lawsuit Leaves Large Gas Storage Fields in Kansas Unregulated" [10]

Because of a federal district court decision striking down Kansas' gas-safety law, neither the state nor federal government is inspecting gas storage fields which could present a fatal hazard.

Source: Wichita Eagle [11], 10/04/2011

"GOP Pushing for More Logging in National Forests" [12]

"A century-old federal program that compensates counties straddling huge tracts of nontaxable national forests has expired, and House Republicans are using its reauthorization to push for opening the land to more logging and mining."

Source: McClatchy [13], 10/04/2011

"A Map of Organized Climate Change Denial" [14]

"A chart of 'key components of the climate change denial machine' has been produced by Riley E. Dunlap, regents professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University, and Aaron M. McCright, an associate professor of sociology at Michigan State University. The diagram below (reproduced here with permission) is from a chapter the two researchers wrote on organized opposition to efforts to curb greenhouse gases for the new Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society."

Source: Dot Earth [15], 10/04/2011

"Is Susan G. Komen Denying the BPA-Breast Cancer Link?" [16]

"Critics claim the leading breast cancer research group is in the pocket of its BPA-happy sponsors."

Source: Mother Jones [17], 10/04/2011

DEADLINE: Pakistan-United States Journalists Exchange [5]

West Coast Premiere of Documentary 'Greening the Revolution' (in Newport Coast, CA) [6]

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