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"State Setting Health Standards for Emerging Contaminants"

"ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Department of Health is taking a closer look at a variety of chemicals that make their way into the water supply. Federal and state regulators have already placed limits on many contaminants found in drinking water, among them lead and mercury. But health officials are turning their attention to other chemicals that are not widely known, including those in fragrances, prescription drugs and bug spray."

Source: Minnesota Public Radio, 03/29/2012

"Hundreds of Donkeys Abandoned in Lingering Drought"

"With pastures withered from a lingering drought, farmers in Texas and northwest Louisiana have abandoned donkeys by the hundreds, turning them into wandering refugees that have severely tested animal rescue groups."

Source: AP, 03/29/2012

"No Vacancy: Unleashing the Potential of Empty Urban Land"

"Tia Jackson’s family has lived on the same block of Halsey Street in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood for five generations. Kristen Rapp is a newcomer. Jackson is black. Rapp is white. In a part of town where the gentrification process has been grinding along painfully for years, the two might never have met if not for a sign on a fence on a vacant lot, left there by the members of a group called 596 Acres."

Source: Grist, 03/29/2012

"Conservatives' Trust in Science Has Declined Sharply"

"As the Republican presidential race has shown, the conservatives who dominate the primaries are deeply skeptical of science — making Newt Gingrich, for one, regret he ever settled onto a couch with Nancy Pelosi to chat about global warming."

Source: LA Times, 03/29/2012

"Churches Step Up Environmental Activism"

"With a Bible in one hand and a protest sign in the other, many religious activists are now moving in lockstep with the environmental movement in the fight against oil and gas drilling."

Source: Washington Times, 03/29/2012

Scientists Map Red Tide Algae To Prevent Shellfish Poisoning

"Public health officials have their hands full keeping your clam chowder and raw oysters safe. That's due, in part, to red tides."

Source: NPR, 03/29/2012

"Victims of Colorado Wildlands Fire Say Warning Never Came"

"JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. -- Families driven from their homes by a fast-moving wall of fire Monday evening said they stayed longer than was safe because authorities told them that the smoke they were smelling was from a controlled burn that was being monitored."

Source: Denver Post, 03/29/2012

Interior Approves Shell Arctic Spill Response Plan

"ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Federal offshore drilling regulators on Wednesday approved Shell Oil's spill response plan for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea, drawing strong criticism from environmental groups that claim oil companies cannot clean up oil in ice-choked waters."

Source: AP, 03/29/2012

"Plan Now For Climate-Related Disasters: U.N. Report"

"A future on Earth of more extreme weather and rising seas will require better planning for natural disasters to save lives and limit deepening economic losses, the United Nations said on Wednesday in a major report on the effects of climate change.

Source: Reuters, 03/29/2012

Risk and Response: Sea Level Rise Summit

The summit, coordinated by the Florida Center for Environmental Studies at Florida Atlantic University, will focus on the complex sea level rise issues in Florida and provide examples from other coastal regions within the US and internationally.

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