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UL Starts Certifying Green Products [1]

"Underwriters Laboratories, whose ubiquitous product-safety labels have made it household name for more than a century, is pushing hard to make a new name for itself as a global environmental-standards tester."
Economy & Business [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: NYTimes [5], 06/03/2009

EPA Cites BP Whiting Refinery [6]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday cited the BP Whiting Refinery for violating federal air standards by releasing a cancer-causing toxin in waste from 2003 to 2008, which at times reached 16 times the acceptable limit, EPA officials said."
Air [7]
Public [3]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Source: NWI Times [9], 06/03/2009

Suit Aims To Stop Logging Near Rio Grande [10]

Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging a National Fores logging project in Colorado that would impact the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: ENS [12], 06/03/2009

"Possible Changes to House Climate Bill" [13]

Various House committees will try to remake the climate bill in a shape favored by the interests they represent, before it faces more amendments on the floor this summer.
Climate Change [14]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: Reuters [15], 06/03/2009

"Court Battles Loom Over Gray Wolf In West" [16]

"A pair of federal judges will decide which states in the Northern Rockies have enough gray wolves to allow public hunting, as the bitter debate over the region's wolves heads to courts in Wyoming and Montana."
Biodiversity [17]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: NPR [18], 06/03/2009

"California Senate Approves Ban on BPA in Plastics" [19]

California's Senate narrowly passes a ban on BPA, a chemical that threatens child development, in baby bottles and sippy cups. Industry groups are mounting a big PR and lobbying blitz to stop it in the state Assembly.
Chemicals [20]
Public [3]
California [21]
Source: LA Times [22], 06/03/2009

"FDA Reviewing Decision on Safety of BPA" [23]

After a letter from key Congressmen, the FDA is reviewing its Bush-era decision that BPA, a chemical used in baby bottles and food containers, is safe.
Chemicals [20]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: AP [24], 06/03/2009

Study Finds Higher Risk from Soot [25]

A new look at the data shows that mortality among people exposed to tiny soot particles is twice as high as previously thought.
Air [7]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: NYTimes [26], 06/03/2009

Bate and Switch [27]

A little-known figure at the American Enterprise institute has been involved for years in discrediting established science to push an anti-regulatory agenda.
Activism [28]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: NRNS [29], 06/02/2009

Old-Fashioned Reporting Turns Good Stories to Gold [30]

By MIKE DUNNE

Two members of the Society of Environmental Journalists honored recently for their investigative reporting efforts say that digging through records and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting helped them make good stories great.

Ken Ward Jr. of The Charleston Gazette was the winner of the Scripps Howard Edward Meeman Award for environmental reporting – the third time he was so honored. His winning work focused on a coal silo permit that should not have been issued and was revoked thanks to his reporting.

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