"Auction Sends Wild Horses To Sanctuary -- Or Slaughter"
"Rescuers of wild mustangs, checkbooks in hand, duel with the government and ‘kill buyers’ who seek horses for slaughterhouses."
Source: LA Times, 06/20/2013
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"China Puts Up A Green Wall To US Trash"
"US recyclers are nervous about losing their largest market after China began enforcing new environmental laws this year."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 06/20/2013
"Climate Change a Threat To Migratory Birds, Wildlife Group Says"
"Climate change is altering and destroying important habitats that America’s migratory birds depend on, the National Wildlife Federation said Tuesday in a report."
Source: McClatchy, 06/20/2013
"And The Winner Of The World Food Prize Is ... The Man From Monsanto"
"Ever heard of the World Food Prize? It's sometimes called the "Nobel Prize for food and agriculture," but it has struggled to get people's attention. Prize winners tend to be agricultural insiders, and many are scientists. Last year's laureate, for instance, was Daniel Hillel, a pioneer of water-saving 'micro-irrigation.'"
Source: NPR, 06/20/2013
"Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants"
"President Obama is preparing regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, senior officials said Wednesday. The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one likely to provoke legal challenges from Republicans and some industries."
Source: NY Times, 06/20/2013
"Maine Governor to Stop Talking to 3 Newspapers"
Maine's GOP Governor LePage is punishing a major state newspaper group that exposed his DEP Commissioner Patricia Aho as a shill for her former lobbying clients. He will give them "no comment" from now on.
Source: NY Times, 06/20/2013
Congressional Research Service Reports on Environment Leaked
Topics of the latest CRS reports shared by the Federation of American Scientist's Project on Government Secrecy include GMO wheat, earthquake risk and highway infrastructure, carbon capture and sequestration, the regional greenhouse gas initiative, regulation of fertilizers, and more.
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Toolbox: EPA "Data Finder" May Aid in Some Reporting Projects
If you want to take advantage of EPA databases to report on local (or even national) environmental conditions, this tool is a step beyond the all-in-one EPA data interfaces many journalists are used to, in that it catalogs some of the less-known specialized databases. It is unusual among government data programs in that it explicitly encourages third-party developers to build apps based on open agency data.
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Will CA Gov. Brown Veto Budget Bill with Rider Gutting FOI Law?
[SEE UPDATE: Cal Assembly Walks Back CPRA Attack.] The last-minute sneak attack on open government was crafted and pushed through by Brown's own party. Local governments would be legally able to ignore the major requirements of the Public Records Law which force them to respond to freedom-of-information requests and justify any denial of requests.
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Disclosure? BLM Fracking Rule Panned by Industry, Panned by Enviros
The revised proposal still allows companies to claim trade secrecy on chemicals in fracking fluid — and to fulfill disclosure requirements on the remainder by submitting them to the controversial FracFocus database, run by the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and the Groundwater Protection Council.
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