Scientists Critique Media Reports on Climate
Yale Climate Connections' Bud Ward reports on the Climate Feedback project, which scores articles and columns for accuracy, logic and reasoning, fairness, objectivity and precision.
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MIT Researchers Send Robots Into Sewers To Monitor City Dwellers’ Waste
"Beneath the streets of Boston, two robots named Mario and Luigi inspect the flow of human waste, collecting data on city residents."
Source: Quartz, 08/01/2016
MA Senators Confront FERC on Alleged Pipeline Conflict of Interest
"In a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey demand new answers about an alleged conflict of interest in the environmental review of a proposed Spectra Energy natural gas pipeline project."
Source: DeSmog, 08/01/2016
"Bayer Says Will Halt Future U.S. Sales Of Insecticide"
"The agricultural unit of German chemicals company Bayer AG will halt future U.S. sales of an insecticide that can be used on more than 200 crops after losing a fight with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the company said on Friday."
Source: Reuters, 08/01/2016
"Pacific Northwest Weighs Response to Risks Posed by Oil Trains"
"The Chinook salmon that Randy Settler and other Yakama tribal fishermen are pulling from the Columbia River are large and plentiful this summer, part of one of the biggest spawning runs since the 1960s. It is a sign, they say, of the river’s revitalization, through pollution regulations and ambitious fish hatchery programs. But barely four miles upstream from the fishermen’s nets, state workers are still cleaning up after a major oil train derailment in June."
Source: NY Times, 08/01/2016
"Climate Change Divide Bursts to Forefront in Presidential Campaign"
"During the 2012 race for president, the issue of climate change was nearly invisible. ... But this year, as Hillary Clinton thrusts climate change to the heart of her campaign, the issue is taking on a prominence it has never before had in a presidential general election."
Source: NY Times, 08/01/2016
"California Adds Atrazine to List of Toxic Chemicals, But No Ban"
"Atrazine has been a dirty word among environmentalists for decades. Now state and federal agencies are coming down on the weed killer, amid troubling evidence that it disrupts hormones and contributes to birth defects."
Source: KQED, 08/01/2016
Toxicologist: Claim NC Well Water Was Safe Was 'Scientifically Untrue'
"Emails obtained through public-records requests by a conservation group show that State Toxicologist Ken Rudo forcefully resisted the McCrory administration last year as it moved to alter the do-not-drink letters sent to hundreds of well owners near coal-ash pits owned by Duke Energy."
Source: Winston-Salem Journal, 08/01/2016
Latest: Obama Administration To Continue Navajo Nation Uranium Cleanup
"The EPA has already spent $100 million to remediate decades of mining."
Source: High Country News, 08/01/2016
"GMO Wheat Found In Washington State Could Affect US Trade"
"Genetically modified wheat not approved for sale or commercial production in the United States has been found growing in a field in Washington state, agriculture officials said Friday, posing a possible risk to trade with countries concerned about engineered food."
Source: AP, 08/01/2016
