Special 2011 Green Screen Newsradar Edition
SEJ's TipSheet lists the top 10 environmental subject areas we see coming up over the horizon — from environmental security, energy, and epigenetics to emerging climate issues, peak water, and more.
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Texas Welcomes Low-Level Nuclear Waste from 36 Other States
"A Texas commission Tuesday set in motion the importation of low-level radioactive-waste from 36 other states, a move long sought by the nuclear-energy industry and long opposed by environmentalists."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 01/05/2011
"2010 in Review: the Year Climate Coverage 'Fell off the Map'"
"After spiking upward in response to Copenhagen talks and the 'climategate' uproar, media coverage of climate change plummeted to levels last seen in 2005, according to DailyClimate.org's archives and other media databases."
Source: Daily Climate, 01/05/2011
"Scientists Find 'Drastic' Weather-Related Atlantic Shifts"
"Scientists have found evidence of a 'drastic' shift since the 1970s in north Atlantic Ocean currents that usually influence weather in the northern hemisphere, Swiss researchers said on Tuesday."
Source: AFP, 01/05/2011
New Push To Strengthen Mine Safety Faces Resistance by Old Strategies
The Obama administration's efforts to toughen mine safety enforcement, following the Upper Big Branch disaster in April that killed 29, are encountering the same old evade-and-delay resistance from the mining industry. Those are the tactics that appear to have led to the disaster in the first place.
Source: Wash Post, 01/05/2011
MIT's Emanuel: a Conservative Who Believes in Climate Science
"MIT professor Kerry Emanuel is among a rare breed of conservative scientists who are sounding the alarm for climate change and criticizing Republicans' 'agenda of denial' and 'anti-science stance.'"
Source: LA Times, 01/05/2011
"EPA's Enforcers Try PR to Net Fugitives, Shed 'Tree Hugger' Image"
Meet the Giordanos -- a father-son team who fled to Italy as fugitives from the law when EPA enforcers got them indicted for importing Alfa Romeos that did not meet federal emission standards. Their faces are online in EPA's most wanted list.
Source: Greenwire, 01/05/2011
"Mocked as Uncool, the Minivan Rises Again"
"In marketing campaigns featuring heavy-metal theme songs, rapping parents, secret agents in cat masks, pyrotechnics and even Godzilla, minivan makers are trying to recast the much-ridiculed mom-mobile as something that parents can be proud -- or at least unashamed -- of driving."
Source: NYTimes, 01/05/2011
NY: "Cuomo Picks 'Open Space' Advocate for Environment Chief"
"Gov. Andrew Cuomo is receiving plaudits from environmental groups for nominating Joseph Martens as the new commissioner of New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation."
Source: St. Petersburg Times, 01/05/2011
"State Approves Coal Ash Landfill In South Baltimore"
"State environmental officials approved new coal-ash landfill in southeast Baltimore Tuesday, saying "state-of-the-art" pollution controls there should allay nearby residents' fears that the power plant waste will blow into their neighborhoods and leak into the Patapsco River."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 01/05/2011
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