"An Even More Inconvenient Truth"
"Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing"
Source: ProPublica, 05/23/2019
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More Endangered Florida Panthers Are Being Shot Than Originally Thought
Shootings of Florida's state animal are likely to increase as both the human and panther populations expand, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission veterinarian predicted.
Source: Tampa Bay Times, 05/22/2019
Your ‘Recycled’ Laptop May Be Incinerated In An Illegal Asian Scrapyard
"They call it “e-waste recycling.” But what happens inside Asia’s underground scrapyards looks more like crude alchemy. Men and women, faces swaddled in cloth, hunch over steel furnaces."
Source: PRI, 05/22/2019
"Top Dem Challenges EPA For Skipping Hearing On Mercury Pollution"
"The chair of a House panel is crying foul over the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to provide an expert to testify on the effects of toxic mercury air pollution."
Source: The Hill, 05/22/2019
"Tribes, Environmentalists Battle Copper Mine In Arizona"
Native American tribes and environmental groups have sued to stop a massive copper mine near Tucson. The $1.9 billion Rosemont Mine, at a half-mile deep and a mile wide, would sprawl across federal, state and private land, leaving a waste pile the height of skyscraper.
Source: AP, 05/22/2019
1.6M Americans Live Near The Most Polluting Incinerators In The US"
"A total of 1.6 million Americans live next to the most polluting incinerators in the country, with lower-income and minority communities exposed to the vast majority of pollution coming from these waste-burning plants."
Source: Guardian, 05/22/2019
Interior Can Treat Lawmakers, Officials To Free Concert Tickets: Rule
"The Department of the Interior will be able to treat members of Congress and the executive branch to free concert tickets under new rules released Tuesday."
Source: The Hill, 05/22/2019
SEJ in Press Freedom Case, Chem Secrecy Bill Fails and More
SEJ joined with several dozen other journalism groups to support the right to film police activity in a public place, and bills to block information of importance to environmental reporters failed in Louisiana, California and Iowa, but a Colorado paper was blocked from covering a wild horse roundup. All that in this month’s WatchDog Tipsheet.
"Chesapeake Bay Recovery Took A Hit Amid Heavy Rain In 2018"
"The Chesapeake Bay’s recovery took a step back in 2018, but the estuary retained its “C” grade on an annual report card from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 05/22/2019
"Senate Panel Approves Interior Nominee Over Objections From Democrats"
"Senate Republicans advanced President Trump's nominee to be the Interior Department's top lawyer on Tuesday over objections from Democrats who called him partisan and unresponsive to ethics questions swirling around the department's secretary and his predecessor." Daniel Jorjani was architect of Interior's proposed policy for rejecting Freedom of Information Act requests.
Source: The Hill, 05/22/2019
