"Reversing a decade-old decision, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it plans to require pesticide manufacturers to disclose to the public the inert ingredients in their products."
This listing of Terms & Acronyms in non-technical language for EPA's commonly used environmental terms provides a good starting place for understanding and communicating with clarity to your audience.
For journalists not lucky enough to go to the Copenhagen climate talks, the good news is that climate will be news at home and abroad for years to come. Many regional, state, and local climate stories are still waiting to be written.
Climate Wizard. A team of researchers from the Univ. of Washington, the Univ. of Southern Mississippi, and the Nature Conservancy has provided a tool for attempting to predict the effects of climate change at the regional and state level. They call their tool Climate Wizard, as noted in the June 10, 2009, TipSheet [6]. The Web site allows users to check [7] predictions based on varying degrees of climate change.
"In the Pacific, jumbo squid have moved to new waters, signaling changes in the ocean, scientists observe."
"A federal jury on Friday awarded more than $100 million to 10 workers who claimed they were injured in 2007 when a toxic substance was released at BP’s Texas City plant."
"A record number of endangered manatees died in Florida waters this year, according to the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission."
"In Yonkers last week, Mayor Philip A. Amicone announced he would veto new legislation requiring that developers of residential and commercial buildings hew to 'green' construction practices -- not because he opposes sustainable development, the mayor said, but because of legal, technical and political issues."
"The protected areas would encompass 1 million acres containing wildlife, extinct volcanoes, sand dunes and ancient petroglyphs. The senator says the bill could be enacted in late 2010."
"It's the holidays... which for some of us means time to deck the halls with boughs of holly and, oh yeah, pick out a Christmas tree. ... Which tree is greener -- real or artificial."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-announces-plan-to-require-disclosure-secret-pesticide-ingredients
[2] http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/inert-ingredients-in-pesticides
[3] https://www.sej.org/library/government/us-epa-terms-environment
[4] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/after-copenhagen-many-climate-stories-home-still-unwritten
[5] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/regional-info-resources/regional-climate-impacts-and-implications-general-sources
[6] https://www.sej.org/node/1543
[7] http://www.climatewizard.org/AboutUs.html
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/squid-invasions-signal-changes-in-the-pacific-ocean
[9] http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2009/1215/Squid-invasions-signal-changes-in-the-Pacific-Ocean
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/jury-awards-bp-workers-100-million-toxic-substance-case
[11] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/business/energy-environment/19oil.html?ref=energy-environment
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/2009-a-deadly-year-for-floridas-manatees
[13] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/56051
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/towns-tackle-green-building-laws
[15] http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2009/1216/Green-building-comes-of-age
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bill-would-protect-1-million-acres-mojave
[17] http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mojave21-2009dec21,0,7093884.story
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/o-christmas-tree-0
[19] http://environmentreport.org/story.php?story_id=4791
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4707
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4704
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4705
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4706
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4709
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4710
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4711
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4712
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5004