"This Messaging Guru Is Helping Utilities Clean Up Their Appearance"
"The industry’s new crisis communications expert advocates “reputation management.”"
Source: Huffington Post, 03/30/2016
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“Epidemic” of Premature Births is Increasingly Linked to Air Pollution
"16,000 preterm births a year are linked to fine particulate pollution, costing the US $4.33 billion annually".
Source: Earth Island Journal, 03/30/2016
"Feds Sue Volkswagen Over ‘Clean Diesel’ Ads"
"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Volkswagen Group of America, accusing the car manufacturer of running deceiving advertisements for so-called “clean diesel” vehicles that in fact were designed to evade federal emissions tests."
Source: The Hill, 03/30/2016
"For Latin American Environmentalists, Death Is A Constant Companion"
"Long before gunmen burst into Berta Cáceres Flores’s house in rural Honduras, Beverly Bell gave up any hope that her friend would live to an old age. “This was a marked woman,” said Bell, who kept a long list of the death threats. “Everyone knew it.”"
Source: Wash Post, 03/30/2016
"Flint Official: State Overruled Plan For Corrosion Control"
"An official with Flint's water plant said Tuesday he had planned to treat the drinking water with anti-corrosive chemicals after the city began drawing from the Flint River but was overruled by a state environmental regulator."
Source: AP, 03/30/2016
"Probe of Exxon's Climate Change Disclosures Expands"
"The top attorneys from Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands said on Tuesday they will investigate whether Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) misled investors and the public about the risks of climate change."
Source: Reuters, 03/30/2016
A New Titanic? US, Canada Prepare For Worst As Posh Arctic Cruise Sails
"On 13 April, coast guard officials from the US and Canada will train for a cruise ship catastrophe: a mass rescue from a luxury liner on its maiden voyage through the remote and deathly cold waters between the Northwest Passage and the Bering Strait."
Source: Guardian, 03/29/2016
"US OKs Offshore Wind Research Facility Off Virginia’s Coast"
"The development of offshore wind farms took another halting step forward Thursday with the federal approval of a research facility off Virginia’s coast to test wind turbines in a harsh open seas environment."
Source: AP, 03/29/2016
"Whistle-Blower Del Toral Grew Tired Of EPA ‘Cesspool’"
"A previously unreleased U.S. Environmental Protection Agency email shows the agency’s Midwest whistle-blower pleaded with superiors to protect Flint residents from lead contamination and railed against their failure to do so."
Source: Detroit News, 03/29/2016
"Lawmakers Call for Lead Testing in Every New Jersey School"
"All schools in New Jersey would have to immediately test drinking water for lead contamination under a bill state lawmakers proposed on Monday, weeks after elevated lead levels in Newark schools prompted officials to shut off sinks and drinking fountains."
Source: AP, 03/29/2016
