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August 31, 2009

DEADLINE: SEJ Post-Conference Tour / IJNR Lake Country Institute [1]

SEJ Members: Apply by August 31st for an all-expenses-paid fellowship for SEJ's Oct 11-14, 2009, post-conference tour: IJNR's Lake Country Institute!

SEJ Annual Conferences [2]
Workshops and Fellowships [3]
Visibility: 
Public [4]
Topics on the Beat: 
Water & Oceans [5]
Region: 
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [6]

"Enviros Train Drone Pilots To Find And Pursue Pollution" [7]

"When environmentalist Brent Walls saw a milky-white substance in a stream flowing through a rural stretch of central Pennsylvania, he suspected the nearby rock mine was violating the law."

Activism [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [11]
Technology [12]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [14], 06/30/2022
  • Read more about "Enviros Train Drone Pilots To Find And Pursue Pollution" [7]

Mich. Court Rules Grand Jury Improperly Indicted Officials In Flint Case [15]

"Michigan’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the indictment of former Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and several other officials in connection with the contamination of water in Flint was improper because the grand jury consisted of a single judge."

Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [17]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [6]
Source: The Hill [18], 06/29/2022
  • Read more about Mich. Court Rules Grand Jury Improperly Indicted Officials In Flint Case [15]

Enviros Hope New Law Will Clean Up Wastewater Nutrient Pollution in Md. [19]

"The Chesapeake Bay Program reported on Wednesday that Maryland’s wastewater treatment facilities, operating in violation of discharge permits, contributed significant increases in nitrogen and phosphorus pollution last year in the bay."

Agriculture [20]
Environmental Health [16]
Fish & Fisheries [21]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [4]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Source: Inside Climate News [23], 06/28/2022
  • Read more about Enviros Hope New Law Will Clean Up Wastewater Nutrient Pollution in Md. [19]

"New Tools May Predict Wildfire Season Severity, Rainfall Months Ahead" [24]

"Researchers are developing ways to predict how much land will burn out West and where ocean heat waves will occur up to a year in advance".

Agriculture [20]
Climate Change [25]
Science [26]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [27], 06/28/2022
  • Read more about "New Tools May Predict Wildfire Season Severity, Rainfall Months Ahead" [24]

"LNG Explosion Shines Light On 42-Year-Old Gas Rules" [28]

"The last time the federal government wrote regulations for the liquefied natural gas industry, Pac-Man was the hot new video game and Ronald Reagan was on his way to the White House for the first time."

Disasters [29]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [16]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Transportation [31]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [32], 06/28/2022
  • Read more about "LNG Explosion Shines Light On 42-Year-Old Gas Rules" [28]

"UN Head Declares ‘Ocean Emergency’ As Global Leaders Gather In Lisbon" [33]

"The UN secretary general has declared that the world is in the middle of an “ocean emergency”, and urged governments to do more to restore ocean health."

Climate Change [25]
Environmental Politics [34]
Fish & Fisheries [21]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [4]
International [35]
Source: Guardian [36], 06/28/2022
  • Read more about "UN Head Declares ‘Ocean Emergency’ As Global Leaders Gather In Lisbon" [33]

How 'Rights of Nature' Is Recasting the Relationship Between Law and the Earth [37]

In 2006, a local government council in Pennsylvania concerned about sewage sludge dumping enacted the Western legal system’s first formal “rights of nature” instrument. Today, numerous countries have laws recognizing specific rights or even legal personhood for nature. As legal expert Alice Bleby explains, this new perspective arises from a wide range of contexts and plays out in many different ways.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [38]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [8]
Biodiversity [39]
Chemicals [40]
Climate Change [25]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [34]
Environmental Studies [41]
Fish & Fisheries [21]
Forests [42]
Government [43]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [44]
Policy [45]
Pollution [11]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [46]
Water & Oceans [5]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
California [47]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
International [35]
Africa [48]
Asia [49]
Australia & Oceania [50]
South America [51]
Visibility: 
Public [4]
  • Read more about How 'Rights of Nature' Is Recasting the Relationship Between Law and the Earth [37]

"Drought And Bark Beetles Are Killing The Oldest Trees On Earth" [52]

"Forest pathologist Martin MacKenzie strode forward on a narrow path through California’s mythic bristlecone pine forest in the White Mountains near the Nevada border, methodically scanning gnarled limbs for the invaders that threaten the lives of some of the world’s oldest trees."

Climate Change [25]
Forests [42]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [4]
California [47]
Source: LA Times [53], 06/27/2022
  • Read more about "Drought And Bark Beetles Are Killing The Oldest Trees On Earth" [52]

"Forest Service Finds Mining Would Pose Risk To Minnesota Watershed" [54]

"A federal study released Thursday determined that hardrock mining in a Minnesota wilderness area would risk contaminating the region."

Environmental Studies [41]
Forests [42]
Natural Resources [44]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [55], 06/27/2022
  • Read more about "Forest Service Finds Mining Would Pose Risk To Minnesota Watershed" [54]

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