SF Board Approves Legislation Requiring Solar Panels On New Buildings
"San Francisco today became the first major city in the country to approve legislation requiring solar panels on new buildings."
Source: Bay City News Service, 04/21/2016
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"A Predator Fish In California Has Lost Its White House Support"
"A still-controversial 1992 law intended to boost California’s striped-bass population can be scaled back, the Obama administration now believes."
Source: McClatchy, 04/21/2016
"More Than 100 Feared Dead In India Heat Wave"
"More than 100 people are feared dead in India in an early-summer heat wave which forced schools to close and halted outdoor work like construction, government officials said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 04/21/2016
"VW To Offer To Buy Back Nearly 500,000 U.S. Diesel Cars - Sources"
"Volkswagen AG and U.S. officials have reached a framework deal under which the automaker would offer to buy back almost 500,000 diesel cars that used sophisticated software to evade U.S. emission rules, two people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 04/21/2016
150 Nations Will Sign Paris Climate Accord at U.N. Friday
"Representatives from more than 150 countries will gather at the United Nations on Friday to officially sign a global accord aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions and slowing climate change. But in the four months since that historic pact was negotiated in Paris, a drumbeat of grim scientific findings has underscored that staving off the worst consequences of global warming may take far more aggressive actions."
Source: Wash Post, 04/21/2016
"AG Schuette: Flint Water Charges Only The Beginning; More To Come"
"Three officials responsible for maintaining safe water in Flint tinkered with evidence, tweaked testing and misled county and federal officials, helping to set in motion the contamination of the city's drinking water with lead, according to criminal charges filed by Michigan's chief law enforcement official Wednesday."
Source: Detroit Free Press, 04/21/2016
"Senate Passes Legislation Tailored to a Modern Energy Landscape"
"The Senate on Wednesday passed the first broad energy bill since the George W. Bush administration, a bipartisan measure to better align the nation’s oil, gas and electricity systems with the changing ways that power is produced in the United States."
Source: NY Times, 04/21/2016
Data Visualization for Storytellers Workshop
Learn how to navigate the junction of “effective” and “pretty” at Berkeley Advanced Media Institute's workshop. You’ll learn the tools that will help present complex data to an audience, in a way that’s easily accessible to the public, as well as techniques for conveying the story behind that data.
"Keeping it Real: How Farmers’ Markets Verify Producer Claims"
"It’s spring, and many of us are re-discovering our local farmers' markets. But how do you know if those first-of-the-season bunches of asparagus, peas, and onions were grown by the farmer who’s selling it to you?"
Source: Civil Eats, 04/20/2016
Interview: Gustavo Castro, Sole Witness to Berta Cáceres Assassination
"Gustavo Castro was the sole witness to the murder on March 3 of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres. ... Last week he spoke by phone to The Intercept about the night of the murder and the reasons why environmental activism in Latin America is so dangerous."
Source: The Intercept, 04/20/2016
