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Enviros Backing Standing Rock Protesters Target Bankers Behind Pipeline

"In early August, just as protesters from across the country descended on North Dakota to rally against an oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, some of the world’s biggest banks signed off on a $2.5 billion loan to help complete the sprawling project. Now, those banks — which include Citigroup and Wells Fargo of the United States, TD Bank of Canada and Mizuho of Japan — have come under fire for their role in bankrolling the pipeline."

Source: NY Times, 11/08/2016

"Charges Dropped Against Pair Who Filmed Pipeline Protest"

"Prosecutors have dropped charges including burglary and sabotage against two filmmakers who recorded a protest at an oil pipeline in Washington state last month."

Source: AP, 11/08/2016

Climate Change: "The Most Important Issue This Election Forgot"

"A hurricane floods two battleground states mere weeks before a Presidential election; its fury stoked by ocean waters warmed in part by climate change. Seems like a recipe for a question or two about the greatest environmental challenge faced by the U.S., an issue that starkly divides the candidates and their parties, no? Not in 2016, even when Hurricane Matthew wreaked havoc in North Carolina, Florida and other places in the South less than 48 hours before a televised debate."

Source: PBS NewsHour, 11/08/2016

DEADLINE: AAJA’s Executive Leadership Bootcamp

The Asian American Journalists Association offers a one-day leadership and career development event open to all media and communications professionals, at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Deadline: Nov 11.

DEADLINE: John M. Collier Award for Forest History Journalism

Sponsored by the Forest History Society, this annual award is given to a journalist whose work incorporates forest or conservation history in an article or series of articles published in North America that relate to environmental issues. $1,000 prize +. Deadline: Apr 15, 2025.

"Ex-Sciences Academy President Ralph J. Cicerone Dies at 73"

"Ralph J. Cicerone, president emeritus of the National Academy of Sciences and a renowned authority on atmospheric chemistry and climate change, has died. He was 73."

Source: AP, 11/07/2016

NRC Gives Turkey Point Nuclear Expansion A Key Environmental Approval

"Federal nuclear regulators have wrapped up a seven-year environmental study partly clearing the way for two new reactors at Turkey Point, just as work gets underway on a massive cleanup of leaking cooling canals connected to the plant’s old reactors."

Source: Miami Herald, 11/07/2016

"New Invader Found In Great Lakes"

EPA says a new non-native species of zooplankton has been found in the Great Lakes. Scientists suspect it may have come from ship ballast, and are not sure what effects, if any, it will have on ecosystems.

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11/07/2016

"Regulators Overhaul Oil, Gas Drilling Rules For National Parks"

"The National Park Service (NPS) updated its standards Friday for oil and natural gas drilling on land it owns, bringing hundreds of wells under the agency’s authority for the first time."

Source: The Hill, 11/07/2016

Broken Pipe Dumps 10M Gallons of Raw Sewage Into Sacred Onondaga Lake

"Up to 10 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into Onondaga Lake after a 50-year-old pipe burst during 21 hours of straight rain in Syracuse, New York on October 21. The 42-inch diameter pipe broke south of the Inner Harbor along the Onondaga Lake shoreline."

Source: Indian Country Today, 11/07/2016

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