"National environmental and health groups are beating a path to LeRoy, poking into the Genesee County community's startling cluster of teenage students with troubling neurological symptoms."
"Throughout North Dakota, little yellow flowers dot thousands of miles of roadsides. These canola plants, found along most major trucking routes, look harmless. But they are fueling a controversy: They prove that large numbers of genetically modified plants have escaped from farm fields and are now growing wild. About 80 percent of canola growing along roadsides in North Dakota contains genes that have been modified to make the plants resistant to common weed-killers."
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"A Media Matters analysis shows that as a whole, news coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline between August 1 and December 31 favored pipeline proponents. Although the project would create few long-term employment opportunities, the pipeline was primarily portrayed as a jobs issue. Pro-pipeline voices were quoted more frequently than those opposed, and dubious industry estimates of job creation were uncritically repeated 5 times more often than they were questioned.
"President Barack Obama began laying out his 'all-of-the-above' energy strategies in a campaign-styled stop in Las Vegas on Thursday, expanding on the energy blueprint he first described in his State of the Union address Tuesday night."
"The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a long overdue new version of their Plant Hardiness Zone Map yesterday—the first update since 1990."
"How out of date was the 1990 map? It was based on data from 1974 to 1986. That's 26 years ago.
The new map is interactive, which is cool, and based on a much finer data scale than the old one, which is great. And guess what. It shows that things are getting warmer. The USDA managed to pretty much bury that fact in Bureaucratese in their press release ... ."
"The United States must urgently work to find a new central site to house its spent nuclear fuel and probe whether Japan's nuclear disaster has any safety implications for storage at the country's plants, a federal panel said on Thursday."
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) NY Energy Committee presents Digging Deeper: The Fracking Debate - Balancing the benefits of accessing shale assets with the importance of implementing effective measures to protect the environment. 5:30 p.m. with light refreshments.
The fellowships support journalists in researching stories in the EU. It has a strong focus on recruiting journalists with diverse backgrounds who might not otherwise have the opportunity to do international reporting. In 2025, policy areas include climate & energy policy, among others. Cash stipend for in-person or digital fellowship. Apply by Mar 24.
"Industrial agricultural has significant socioeconomic and environmental costs, although scientists are bringing solutions."
"House Democrats took the political offensive on Keystone Wednesday, seeking to probe connections between the multi-billion dollar project and Koch Industries, the Kansas-based energy conglomerate that has funded many a conservative cause."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ny-brockovich-gibbs-looking-mystery-illness-leroy
[2] http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/152686/37/Brockovich-Gibbs-Looking-into-Mystery-Illness-in-LeRoy
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/great-escape-gene-altered-crops-grow-wild
[4] http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2012/gm-crops-escape-and-grow-wild
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/study-press-and-pipeline
[6] http://mediamatters.org/research/201201260005
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama-unveils-his-all-above-energy-strategies-las-vegas
[8] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/obama-las-vegas-energy_n_1234582.html?ref=green
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/long-overdue-plant-hardiness-map-hothouse
[10] http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/01/long-overdue-plant-hardiness-map-hothouse
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-needs-long-term-site-nuclear-waste-panel
[12] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/64526
[13] https://www.sej.org/calendar/ajc-ny-presents-digging-deeper-fracking-controversy
[14] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-boell-energy-climate-media-fellowship
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/raiding-bread-basket-use-and-abuse-mississippi-river-basin
[16] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120123-mississippi-river-basin/
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/house-democrats-seek-subpoena-koch-industries-over-keystone-xl
[18] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/house-democrats-koch-industries-keystone-xl_n_1231783.html?ref=green
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4138
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4135
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4136
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4137
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4140
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4141
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4142
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4143
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5070