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"Insight: Chasing High Corn Prices, U.S. Farmers Skip Rotations" [1]

"Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois."

Source: Reuters [2], 09/27/2011

"Partisans Prepare for Keystone XL Hearings" [3]

"Opponents and supporters of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project are gearing up for a pivotal round of public meetings around the country this week — forums that could play a role in whether the huge project receives final approval from the State Department by year’s end."

Source: Green (NYT) [4], 09/27/2011

"Gulf Fish Hammered by BP Oil" [5]

"Even minuscule amounts of BP's crude oil has affected fish in profound ways in the Gulf of Mexico—even when oil in the water was nondetectable. This according to a paper in early view in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science)."

Source: Mother Jones [6], 09/27/2011

"In North Dakota, Flames of Wasted Natural Gas Light the Prairie" [7]

"NEW TOWN, N.D. — Across western North Dakota, hundreds of fires rise above fields of wheat and sunflowers and bales of hay. At night, they illuminate the prairie skies like giant fireflies."

Source: NY Times [8], 09/27/2011

"A Record Year for Disasters—And Promises of Federal Help" [9]

"Last week, when President Obama named New Jersey a federal disaster area for floods that came before Hurricane Irene, he cemented 2011’s ranking as the United States’ most disaster-prone year ever."

Source: Stateline [10], 09/27/2011

Senate Stopgap Funds Some Disaster Aid, Ditches Energy Cuts [11]

The Senate voted 79-12 Monday night to approve a bipartisan stopgap spending bill that funds some disaster relief from FEMA and and abandons controversial cuts to green energy programs. Democrats said they expected the seven-week funding extension to be approved by the GOP-led House, which is in pro forma session after most members went home.

Source: LA Times [12], 09/27/2011

DEADLINE: AP-Google Journalism & Technology Scholarship [13]

The Associated Press and Google offer a national scholarship program intended to foster digital and new media skills in student journalists. The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, administers the program. Applicants must be U.S. citizens at least 18 years old. Feb 8, 2013 deadline.

"Robots Extract Coolant From Old Refrigerators" [14]

"RECYCLING refrigerators — especially those made more than 15 years ago — is a tricky job. The coolant in old appliances (now banned from newer versions) can cause serious trouble, warming the atmosphere and depleting the ozone layer."

Source: NY Times [15], 09/26/2011

"Ottawa Sit-in To Protest Federal Support of Oilsands" [16]

"EDMONTON -- Environmental groups are hoping to trigger what they call the "largest civil disobedience action in the history of Canada’s climate movement"Monday in Ottawa — a sit-in on Parliament Hill to protest federal government support of Alberta's oilsands."

Source: Postmedia [17], 09/26/2011

"Gas Wells on Public Land Get Federal Scrutiny" [18]

"The U.S. Department of the Interior is reviewing whether any of the 175 Marcellus Shale gas wells drilled in Pennsylvania state forests or other permitted or planned well developments on publicly owned land violates a 1964 federal land conservation law."

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [19], 09/26/2011

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