"Bachmann Called for 'Armed and Dangerous' Citzenry on Climate Bill"
Is Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's call on constituents to get "armed and dangerous" over the climate bill something to be concerned about?
Source: Mother Jones, 01/11/2011
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"EPA Wades Into Battle Over Hospital Disinfectant"
"U.S. EPA is interceding in a New Jersey public-health flap that could have national implications, ordering a hospital services company to stop disinfecting its ambulances with finely misted pesticides after a local union complained of workers falling ill."
Source: Greenwire, 01/11/2011
"Climate Change Reveals Disease as National Security Threat"
"One of the most worrisome national security threats of climate change is the spread of disease, among both people and animals, U.S. intelligence and health officials say."
Source: Medill/McClatchy, 01/11/2011
Supreme Court Declines Case Blaming Warming for Katrina Damage
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a request to reopen a lawsuit that charged energy companies with contributing to the effects of Hurricane Katrina by emitting greenhouse gases."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 01/11/2011
SEJ Board Meeting
The Board of Directors of the Society of Environmental Journalists meets next in Chicago on November 16 and 17, 2024.
30th Annual Guelph Organic Conference
Generation Organic — 30 years for the original green movement at the Guelph University Centre in Ontario, Canada, featuring keynote address by Homestead Organics' Manley family, 155-booth organic expo, workshops such as Electroculture & Magnetoculture, public forum, major seminars, hospitality events, and more.
"Why the CIA Is Spying on a Changing Climate"
CIA intelligence analysts have focused more intensely in the past year on a threat to national security they find highly worrisome: geopolitical chaos caused by climate change. Speaking on background, they say the U.S. is frighteningly unprepared. The CIA analysts must stay anonymous, because the public is not supposed to know.
Source: Medill/McClatchy, 01/10/2011
"Endocrine Disruptors Linked To Genital Changes and Sexual Preference"
"Scientists are continuing to sound the alarm about some common chemicals, including the herbicide atrazine, and link them to changes in reproductive health and development. Endocrine disrupting toxic chemicals have been found to feminize male frogs and cause homosexual behavior." Now the question is how these substances may be affecting human development and behavior.
Source: Living on Earth/PRI, 01/10/2011
Can -- or Should -- the Offshore Drilling Industry Police Itself?
The Tuesday recommendations of the presidential oil spill commission may include one that could help the offshore oil industry dodge tighter government safety regulation -- creation of a self-policing program like the one the chemical industry launched after Bhopal.
Source: Houston Chronicle, 01/10/2011
"Pesticide Use, Lobster Deaths Probed in Down East Waters"
Lobstermen and environmentalists are concerned about pesticides used by aquaculture operators in Passamaquoddy Bay to kill sea lice that infest salmon holding pens.
Source: Bangor Daily News, 01/10/2011
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