Divestment Day Aims to Strengthen Global Reach of Fossil-Free Movement
"So far an estimated 200 institutions worldwide, with combined investment assets of more than $50 billion, have committed to divest."
Source: InsideClimate News, 02/10/2015
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"White House to GOP: Administration Followed Law for Flood Order"
"The White House legally complied with a new law in formulating a new executive order on flood risk management, an administration official told The Hill on Monday after Republicans questioned its legality."
Source: The Hill, 02/10/2015
"California Pledges Changes in Protecting Underground Water"
"California has proposed closing by October up to 140 oilfield wells that state regulators had allowed to inject into federally protected drinking water aquifers, state officials said Monday."
Source: AP, 02/10/2015
"In Nevada, a Controversy in the Wind"
"For the past few years, the geologists Brenda Buck and Rodney Metcalf have combed the wild terrain of southern Nevada, analyzing its stony dunes and rocky outcroppings — and to their dismay, tallying mounting evidence of a landscape filled with asbestos."
Source: NY Times, 02/10/2015
US Government, Conservationists Launch Drive To Save Monarch Butterfly
"The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and conservation groups launched a $3.2 million campaign on Monday to save the habitat of the embattled orange-and-black spotted monarch butterfly, whose numbers have plummeted in recent years."
Source: Reuters, 02/10/2015
DEADLINE: IJNR Sagebrush Country Institute
The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources invites applications by Feb 27th for this Apr 6-13, 2015 institute to Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho. Fellows will explore the longstanding Greater Sage Grouse story, its habitat and the area's related natural resource, energy and environment issues.
"Loving the Puget Sound to Death"
"Four decades after the passage of the Clean Water Act, regulators haven’t kept up with the pollution pressure that growing populations put on America’s shorelines."
Source: Nation, 02/09/2015
"A Call To Cull Homes Threatened By the Sea"
"As flood losses grow, so does sentiment to pay homeowners to move on"
Source: NECIR/Boston Globe, 02/09/2015
"Farmers File More Than 360 Corn Lawsuits Against Syngenta"
"Farmers and farm businesses in 20 states have now filed more than 360 lawsuits against agricultural chemicals-maker Syngenta, and hundreds more may be coming as a federal judge organizes the complex case so they can move forward."
Source: AP, 02/09/2015
"N.Y. Landfills Taking Tons of Pa. Drilling Waste"
"At least 460,000 tons and 23,000 barrels of waste from Pennsylvania drilling operations have been taken in by a handful of New York landfills since 2010, according to a new analysis Thursday."
Source: Ithaca Journal, 02/09/2015
