"Heat Damages Colombia Coffee, Raising Prices"
Coffee yields from Columbia are declining and prices are rising, because of warmer, wetter weather. Many scientists think global warming is responsible.
Source: NY Times, 03/10/2011
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"Health Groups Gird for Fight Over EPA's Power-Plant Toxics Rules"
"With the Obama administration required to put its plan for reducing toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants on the table a week from today, the American Lung Association and other public health groups have started an early push to explain why U.S. EPA shouldn't flinch on the long-delayed rules."
Source: Greenwire, 03/10/2011
"Decline of Honey Bees Now a Global Phenomenon, Says United Nations"
"The mysterious collapse of honey-bee colonies is becoming a global phenomenon, scientists working for the United Nations have revealed."
Source: UK Independent, 03/10/2011
"As Ozone Decision Looms, EPA Finds Stronger Science"
"Recent studies suggest that smog-filled air kills more people and causes more breathing problems than previously thought, U.S. EPA scientists say in a new draft paper, but due to a procedural twist, the findings can't be taken into account as Administrator Lisa Jackson decides whether to set stricter limits than the George W. Bush administration chose in 2008."
Source: Greenwire, 03/10/2011
PA Gov Gives Energy Exec Supremacy Over Environmental Permitting
"Pennsylvania has come under fire lately as pollution from drilling in the Marcellus Shale threatens water resources across the state. But instead of ratcheting up oversight, Gov. Tom Corbett wants to hand authority over some of the state’s most critical environmental decisions to C. Alan Walker, a Pennsylvania energy executive with his own track record of running up against the state’s environmental regulations."
Source: ProPublica, 03/10/2011
Spy Agency To Release Trove of Satellite Photos — But Can Public See Them?
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is about to release millions of feet of film containing aerial images that have been declassified. Such images have in the past been a boon to environmental research. It remains to be seen whether the contractors will charge prices that effectively prevent use by journalists and the public.
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Safety Board Objects to Shutdown of Gulf Rig Tests
According to the AP, the Chemical Safety Board, which has been monitoring the testing, wanted further tests to confirm whether a fundamental design flaw may have contributed to failure of the blowout preventer's control pods
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Sunshine Week Focuses on Freedom of Information and "Local Heroes"
Sunshine Week is spearheaded by the American Society of News Editors with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Gridiron Club — with collaboration by a large number of coalition member groups.
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Is Corporate Ghostwriting of Journal Articles a Threat to Environmental Information?
Before picking up stories based on journals in the environmental sciences, reporters might pause to ask about those journals' policies on transparency and potential conflict of interest. And then ask about enforcement, and any relevant conflict declarations on the article in question.
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Utah Governor Signs Controversial Bill Cutting Public Access to Info
Former National Freedom of Information director Coalition Charles N. Davis said the bill "puts Utah in a class of one, alone in an anti-democratic zone in which the governors enjoy almost carte blanche over what information they deign to share with the rabble.”
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