Enviros: Cut Ship Speeds To Save West Coast Whales
"A 10-knot limit off the West Coast could prevent deaths, advocates tells the U.S. Department of Commerce. Shippers oppose the limits."
Source: LA Times, 06/07/2011
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First International Conference on Food and Environment - The Quest for a Sustainable Future
The First International Conference on Food and the Environment in the UK will focus on a variety of issues affecting food production and distribution including those related to natural and anthropogenic causes. The conference will emphasise the effects of modern food production processes and how they can affect human health.
"Wind Power Turbines in Altamont Pass Threaten Protected Birds"
"Scores of golden eagles have been killed after striking the thousands of wind turbines in the Bay Area, raising questions about California's move toward alternative power."
Source: LA Times, 06/07/2011
"Charting a Planet's Changing Rhythms, Through a Physician's Eyes"
Paul Epstein started his career as a physician caring for the poor in Mozambique and Boston. In a new book, the Associate director of Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and Global Environment connects the dots between climate change and its global impacts. They range from cholera outbreaks in Africa and plankton blooms in the Caribbean ... to parasites devastating East Coast oysters.
Source: Daily Climate, 06/07/2011
Nearly 200 Communities Get $76 Million in EPA Brownfields Grants
"Nearly 200 communities across the United States have been awarded new federal grants to clean up old contaminated industrial sites and transform them into new, job-creating developments."
Source: EHN, 06/07/2011
"Missouri River Dams to Release Historic Rush of Water"
"Releases from six Missouri River reservoirs, already at historic levels, will be increased again this month, say water managers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers."
Source: ENS, 06/07/2011
"As Decision on Grand Canyon Mining Nears, Sides Line Up"
"A moratorium on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon expires in six weeks, and the Interior Department is under pressure from conservation groups and mining companies over what to do about it."
Source: McClatchy, 06/07/2011
"Supreme Court Declines to Take GE Challenge of Superfund"
"The Supreme Court decided [Monday] not to take up General Electric Co.'s legal campaign over how U.S. EPA exercises its authority to order companies to clean up hazardous waste sites."
Source: Greenwire, 06/07/2011
"World Needs Refugee Re-Think For Climate Victims: U.N."
"The world must invent new ways to protect people driven from their homes by climate change without copying safeguards for those uprooted by wars or persecution, the head of the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 06/07/2011
"Japan Concedes Severity of Blast"
"Japan disclosed Monday that its nuclear accident was more severe in its first days than it had previously admitted -- casting new light on how Tokyo's early handling of the disaster briefly sent its relations with the U.S. into one of the tensest periods in years."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 06/07/2011
