"DDT Cleanup Continues for Mid-Michigan Town"
"ST. LOUIS, Mich. — During recent summers birds were found littered around the town, poisoned with a long-banned pesticide."
Source: EHN, 06/11/2015
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"US Plans To Focus on Environment in Columbia River Talks"
"After a long delay, the Obama administration has signaled that it’s ready to launch talks with Canada to renew the 51-year-old Columbia River Treaty, a controversial pact that created dams for electricity and flood control in the Pacific Northwest."
Source: McClatchy, 06/11/2015
Researchers’ Open Letter Calls for Moratorium on New Oilsands Projects
"More than 100 scientists and economists from Canada and the U.S. made an unprecedented call Wednesday for a halt to new projects in the oilsands until carbon emissions can be reduced."
Source: Edmonton Journal, 06/11/2015
"New U.S. Truck Emissions Rules Could Touch Off Industry Struggle"
"U.S. environmental regulators are expected within days to propose rules to make trucks more fuel efficient, and trucking industry executives and lobbyists familiar with the process said the rules will probably call for boosting fuel efficiency by 2027 nearly 40 percent from 2010 levels."
Source: Reuters, 06/11/2015
"U.S. Fisheries Council Protects Mid-Atlantic Deep Ocean Coral"
"More than 35,000 square miles (90,650 sq km) of ocean habitat along the U.S. Atlantic coast gained protection on Wednesday from trawl and dredge fishing that could harm deep-sea ocean corals, according to an environmental group supporting the restrictions."
Source: Reuters, 06/11/2015
"South Korea Needs New Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel: Advisory Group"
"South Korea should build a new temporary facility to store spent nuclear fuel from 2030 and consider permanent underground storage from the middle of the century, a government advisory body said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 06/11/2015
"Californian Oil Spill Clean-Up Costs Exceed $60 Million: Newspaper"
"Clean-up costs associated with a Californian oil pipeline rupture that dumped as much as 2,400 barrels of crude onto a pristine stretch of coastline and into the Pacific Ocean have exceeded $60 million, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 06/11/2015
"Senate Committee Passes Bill That Overturns EPA Clean Water Rule"
"A bill that would effectively overturn a new Environmental Protection Agency clean water rule won a critical committee vote Wednesday and now appears headed for a decision by the full U.S. Senate."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 06/11/2015
"E.P.A. Takes Step to Cut Emissions From Planes"
"The Obama administration said on Wednesday that it would take the first step toward regulating greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes, but it acknowledged it would most likely take years before stringent standards are enacted."
Source: NY Times, 06/11/2015
Sea Shepherd To Pay $2.55M in Damages; Japan’s Whaling Set To Resume
"The hard-line anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said it has agreed to pay $2.55 million in damages to Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research over its continued obstruction of whaling vessels despite an injunction."
Source: Kyodo, 06/10/2015
