Remembering Kevin Carmody
Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow. With this thought, we invite you to read the following memories of Kevin from SEJ members, friends and colleagues far and wide.
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EJ at the EPA: Legal Impacts of the New Priorities
Panelists at this free Environmental Law Institute event will discuss the potential impacts of US EPA’s Interim Guidance on Considering Environmental Justice During the Development of an Action and Draft Plan EJ 2014. RSVP by Jan. 7 to attend or participate by audio webcast/teleconference.
Fed Board Issues Safety Recommendations Stemming From Pipeline Blast
"Federal [officials] Monday issued seven safety recommendations — six of them labeled urgent — stemming from the explosion of a natural gas pipeline that killed eight people and destroyed 37 homes in the Bay Area community of San Bruno last September."
Source: LA Times, 01/04/2011
"Funding To Meet Requirements of Food Safety Law Yet To Be Found"
"With President Obama slated to sign historic food-safety legislation into law Tuesday, the coalition of food industry, public interest and consumer groups that used a public health message to win its passage is now making an argument for its funding."
Source: Wash Post, 01/04/2011
"Researchers Find "Alarming" Decline In Bumblebees"
"Four previously abundant species of bumblebee are close to disappearing in the United States, researchers reported Monday in a study confirming that the agriculturally important bees are being affected worldwide."
Source: Reuters, 01/04/2011
"Suit Challenges Calif. Approval of Farm Pesticide"
"A coalition of environmental and farmworker groups said in a lawsuit announced Monday that state pesticide regulators improperly cut off public comment on a controversial agricultural fumigant in order to secure its passage before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's term ended."
Source: AP, 01/04/2011
"Pa. Allows Dumping of Tainted Waters From Gas Boom"
In many states, polluted wastewater from gas drilling is required to be disposed of thousands of feet underground. But Pennsylvania only requires minimal treatment before the stuff is pumped into rivers and streams from which communities get their drinking water.
Source: AP, 01/04/2011
"Fred Upton's Climate Changeup"
Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), incoming chairman of the House Energy Committee, used to be in favor of reducing the carbon dioxide emissions which are the biggest cause of global warming. Now he is against it.
Source: Mother Jones, 01/04/2011
"Oil Companies Can Resume Deepwater Drilling If Safety Rules Met"
"The Obama administration today eased requirements for oil companies whose deepwater drilling activities were suspended by last year's moratorium imposed in response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: ENS, 01/04/2011
"Use of Toxic Pesticides Stirs Debate on Long Island"
New York regulators are working on a new plan that may limit more tightly the use of the pesticide aldicarb -- which has shown up in the shallow aquifer on which Long Island is especially dependent for drinking water.
Source: Newsday, 01/04/2011
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