"Murkowski Warns Climate Change 'Directly Impacting' Alaska"
"Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Tuesday said climate change is "directly impacting" her home state's way of life."
Source: The Hill, 03/06/2019
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Trump Anti-Science Climate Panel Will Harm Security: Ex-Generals Warn
""More than four dozen former military and intelligence officials are rebuking President Trump for planning to counter the government’s own findings that climate change poses a threat to national security — warning that it’s “dangerous to have national security analysis conform to politics.”"
Source: Washington Post, 03/06/2019
Bloomberg Won't Run, But Launches "Beyond Carbon" Campaign
"I’m not running for president, but I am launching a new campaign: Beyond Carbon."
Source: Bloomberg, 03/06/2019
Prospect of Commercial Fishing In Central Arctic Ocean Poses Big Questions
"There has never been commercial fishing in the central Arctic Ocean — the part that surrounds the North Pole and is beyond any country’s jurisdiction. But with ice-free conditions projected within this century, countries are already preparing for how to deal with that possibility in the future."
Source: NPR, 03/06/2019
"The Hidden Costs Of Hydro: We Need To Reconsider World’s Dam Plans"
"As thousands of hydroelectric dams are planned worldwide, including 147 in the Amazon, a new study finds that the true socio-environmental and cultural costs of dams are rarely evaluated before construction. Were such factors counted into the lifetime cost of the dams, many would not be built."
Source: Mongabay, 03/06/2019
"Colorado Lawmakers Weigh Dramatic Overhaul of Oil Drilling Laws"
"A proposal to overhaul Colorado’s drilling laws has its first hearing today [Tuesday], pushing the bill one step closer to a vote by the Democrat-controlled state legislature."
Source: Bloomberg, 03/06/2019
Gov. Whitmer Proposes $120M For Michigan Drinking Water
"LANSING, MI — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is proposing $120 million in new general fund spending to improve drinking water infrastructure."
Source: Grand Rapids Presss, 03/06/2019
"Wheeler On Climate: 'I Don't See It As The Existential Threat'"
"Climate change isn't an "existential threat," EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said yesterday."
Source: Greenwire, 03/06/2019
Perfecting Your Panorama Technique
In this how-to, veteran environmental photojournalist Dennis Dimick shares new techniques for capturing panoramas from the air — while on commercial plane flights — in order to illustrate human impacts on the landscape. Plus, Dimick details how and why he developed the new approach, in our latest EJ InSight column exploring the cutting edge of visual journalism on the environment.
Capturing a Planet on the Fly
Capturing panoramas from the air has become a passion for veteran environmental photojournalist Dennis Dimick. In the latest EJ InSight, our new column exploring the cutting edge of visual journalism on the environment, Dimick describes how he visualizes the expanding human footprint of the emergent Anthropocene era — by shooting from commercial airplane flights. Plus, Dimick shares his techniques in a how-to sidebar.
