"Concern Over Pesticide Use at Schools Rises"
"Parents are becoming more aware as some schools in the state are not moving to reduce pesticide use."
Source: Portland Press Herald, 01/03/2013
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"Passengers on India's 'Cancer Train' Share Stories of Pain and Hope"
"Every night, hundreds of cancer patients from the farming region of southern Punjab huddle together with their families in an overnight train journey to the nearest cancer hospital, 220 miles away. ... The patients travel from the fertile farming areas of the northern state of Punjab, a region that reports an alarmingly high use of pesticides."
Source: Wash Post, 01/03/2013
"Storms on U.S. Plains Stir Memories of the 'Dust Bowl'"
"Real estate agent Mark Faulkner recalls a day in early November when he was putting up a sign near Ulysses, Kansas, in 60-miles-per-hour winds that blew up blinding dust clouds."
Source: Reuters, 01/03/2013
MTBE: "Long-Awaited NH Pollution Trial Ready To Start"
"CONCORD, N.H. -- Nearly a decade after it was first brought, a lawsuit accusing two oil giants of widespread groundwater contamination in New Hampshire is expected to present jurors with the most complex and time-consuming trial in state history."
Source: AP, 01/03/2013
"Worms Produce Another Kind of Gold for Growers"
"SONOMA, Calif. — Under rows of old chicken sheds, Jack Chambers has built an empire of huge metal boxes filled with cattle manure and millions of wriggling red worms."
Source: NY Times, 01/03/2013
"Farmer Cites Religious Issues in Raw Milk Case"
"A Sauk County [Wisc.] farmer headed for trial on criminal charges related to the sale of raw milk has rejected a plea bargain that could have kept him out of jail and has raised religious freedom objections in the case."
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 01/03/2013
"Climate Coverage, Dominated By Weird Weather, Falls Further in 2012"
"In a year of strange weather worldwide, climate change reporting by the world's journalists fell another 2 percent, according to DailyClimate.org's archive of media coverage. But there were some surprises."
Source: Daily Climate, 01/03/2013
"Sandy Aid: John Boehner Promises Votes As Soon As Friday"
"WASHINGTON -- It was just Wednesday morning that lawmakers were lining up on the House floor to slam House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for delaying a vote on a relief package for Hurricane Sandy victims until the next Congress, with some Republicans even vowing to vote against Boehner for House speaker over the matter."
Source: Huffington Post, 01/03/2013
"Shell, Coast Guard Seek to Salvage Grounded Alaska Rig"
"The U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Dutch Shell were fighting 70 mile-per-hour winds and 40-foot swells as they tried to assess damage to a floating oil drilling ship that ran aground on a remote Alaskan island."
Source: Bloomberg, 01/03/2013
Why Does Congress Keep CRS Reports Secret? One Possible Answer
Congress' motives for the nondisclosure bear scrutiny. Is it merely to sound smart or hog the glory of releasing them? A recent report by Manuel Quinones in E&E Daily suggests another motive: fiddling with inconvenient truths (or untruths).
