"The Obama administration said Monday it was moving forward with oil-drilling leases off the coast of Alaska issued by the Bush administration in 2008, a victory for oil companies in the battle over Arctic Ocean drilling."
"U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson was planning to set a stricter nationwide limit on ground-level ozone when the White House axed the plan last month, the 468-page rulemaking package prepared by the agency yesterday shows."
The East-West Center in Honolulu is accepting applications until October 12th for the 2012 Pakistan-United States Journalists Exchange, March 21-April 7, 2012. Pakistani journalists visit Washington, D.C., New York City and Columbia, Missouri. U.S. journalists visit Islamabad and Karachi, Pakistan.
On 10/18, the 'CINEMA SAGE HILL' free community film series will feature the West Coast Premiere of documentary 'GREENING THE REVOLUTION' in Newport Coast, CA.
For our 21st Annual Conference in Miami, SEJ has partnered with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Americas Business Council Foundation and PODER magazine to bring journalists (at least 22 of them) and speakers from Latin America and abroad to benefit from and contribute to this outstanding gathering.
"A green home designed and built by University of Maryland students took top overall honors in this year’s U.S. Energy Department Solar Decathlon, which aims to showcase innovative and affordable solar-powered homes."
Because of a federal district court decision striking down Kansas' gas-safety law, neither the state nor federal government is inspecting gas storage fields which could present a fatal hazard.
"A century-old federal program that compensates counties straddling huge tracts of nontaxable national forests has expired, and House Republicans are using its reauthorization to push for opening the land to more logging and mining."
"A chart of 'key components of the climate change denial machine' has been produced by Riley E. Dunlap, regents professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University, and Aaron M. McCright, an associate professor of sociology at Michigan State University. The diagram below (reproduced here with permission) is from a chapter the two researchers wrote on organized opposition to efforts to curb greenhouse gases for the new Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society."
"Critics claim the leading breast cancer research group is in the pocket of its BPA-happy sponsors."
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