"Clock Is Ticking, Slowly, on Rules for Coal-Fired Power Plants"
"The fate of many coal-fired power plants may rest on how boldly Obama tries to fulfill his pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions."
Source: LA Times, 05/15/2013
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"For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change"
"If there were one American industry that would be particularly worried about climate change it would have to be insurance, right?"
Source: NY Times, 05/15/2013
"U.S. Tax Dollars Promote Monsanto's GMO Crops Overseas: Report"
"U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for overseas lobbying that promotes controversial biotech crops developed by U.S.-based Monsanto Co. and other seed makers, a report issued on Tuesday said."
Source: Reuters, 05/15/2013
J-Groups: Justice Dept. "Dragnet" Threatens All Reporting on Government
Major news and journalism organizations, including the Society of Environmental Journalists, have condemned the Justice Department's seizure of Associated Press phone records as a threat to journalists' ability to report on government conduct.
Source: RCFP, 05/15/2013
SEJ Condemns DOJ for AP Phone Records Grab
SEJ takes action on FOI issues: EPA meeting, response to DOJ phone records grab.
"Smith Islanders Debate Buyout Offered By State"
"EWELL, Md. -- Superstorm Sandy barely laid a glove on Smith Island last fall, to hear residents tell it. Though storm-driven flooding damaged hundreds of homes in Crisfield and the rest of Somerset County, only a couple islanders got any water in their homes from the surging Chesapeake Bay."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 05/14/2013
"Wind Farms Get Pass on Eagle Deaths"
"CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. -- It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground."
Source: AP, 05/14/2013
"Study: N.C. Too Slow To Warn About Yadkin Fish Contamination"
"RALEIGH — Fish in one of North Carolina’s largest watersheds are more polluted by an industrial contaminant than previously reported, and state health officials have failed to expand warnings against eating PCB-contaminated fish, according to a new study."
Source: AP, 05/14/2013
"Feds: Budget Cuts To Make Wildfire Season Tougher"
"BOISE, Idaho (AP) — After another dry winter across much of the West, fire officials are poised for a tough wildfire season that will be even more challenging because federal budget cuts mean fewer firefighters on the ground, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Monday."
Source: AP, 05/14/2013
"Environmental Review to Delay Two Engineered Crops"
"Genetically engineered crops that could sharply increase the use of two powerful herbicides are now unlikely to reach the market until at least 2015 because the Department of Agriculture has decided to subject the crops to more stringent environmental reviews than it had originally intended."
Source: NY Times, 05/14/2013
