"BLM Will Pay You $1,000 To Adopt A Wild Horse"
"The Bureau of Land Management is offering people $1,000 if they’ll adopt a wild horse."
Source: NPR, 03/15/2019
Agriculture
"EPA Rules On Issue Pitting Oil Producers, Corn Farmers"
"The Trump administration is proposing to allow year-round sales of gasoline mixed with 15 percent ethanol, seeking to calm a dispute that has riled two politically important blocs — the oil industry and corn farmers."
Source: AP, 03/13/2019
Can States Divvy Up the Shrinking Colorado River Water Supply?
The vast Colorado River, recently in the news over a troubled drought deal, is at the heart of numerous environmental problems in the American West, where water is scarce and the legal complexities of water rights voluminous. The latest Issue Backgrounder offers an explainer on the story, which involves at least seven states, the federal government, Native American tribes, a hornet’s nest of irrigation districts and even Mexico.
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Docs: Monsanto Recruited Scientists To Fight Glyphosate Cancer Stigma
"Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended Roundup's key ingredient".
Source: CBC News, 03/12/2019
"US Plans End To Wolf Protections; Critics Say It’s Premature"
"U.S. wildlife officials plan to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, re-igniting the legal battle over a predator that’s running into conflicts with farmers and ranchers as its numbers rebound in some regions."
Source: AP, 03/07/2019
Perfecting Your Panorama Technique
In this how-to, veteran environmental photojournalist Dennis Dimick shares new techniques for capturing panoramas from the air — while on commercial plane flights — in order to illustrate human impacts on the landscape. Plus, Dimick details how and why he developed the new approach, in our latest EJ InSight column exploring the cutting edge of visual journalism on the environment.
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Capturing a Planet on the Fly
Capturing panoramas from the air has become a passion for veteran environmental photojournalist Dennis Dimick. In the latest EJ InSight, our new column exploring the cutting edge of visual journalism on the environment, Dimick describes how he visualizes the expanding human footprint of the emergent Anthropocene era — by shooting from commercial airplane flights. Plus, Dimick shares his techniques in a how-to sidebar.
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Will Appeals Court Make EPA Ban Pesticide With Serious Health Risks?
"Eric Perez and his wife, Mari, live with their five children in the Wenatchee Valley in central Washington state. Their house is just feet from an orchard. A couple of years ago, the kids were having an Easter egg hunt in the yard when they smelled something 'plasticky,' Perez remembers — like 'rotten eggs.'"
Source: NPR, 03/01/2019
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