"On Your Port Side, a Smokestack and a Sewage Pipe"
"The Urban Ocean Boat Cruise shows visitors the grittier side of L.A.'s coast."
Source: LA Times, 03/22/2010
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"USDA's Organic Enforcers Let Offenders Slide, Audit Says"
"The National Organic Program's failure to promptly follow through on investigations has allowed some companies to continue falsely advertising products as organic for years and let one company off the hook entirely, according to an audit released yesterday by the inspector general of the U.S. Agriculture Department."
Source: Greenwire, 03/22/2010
CA Regulator Failed To Disclose Husband's Ties To Dischargers
"The leader of the [California's] largest water pollution regulator is married to a lobbyist for agencies it regulates, a potential conflict of interest she did not disclose publicly until an ethics complaint was brought against her."
Source: Sacramento Bee, 03/22/2010
"Asian Carp Threaten TN Native Species"
An invasion of Asian carp is threatening to overwhelm native Tennessee fish species depended on by the state's $1.3 billion sports and commercial fishing industries.
Source: Nashville Tennessean, 03/22/2010
"Washington Becomes 5th State To Outlaw Bisphenol-A"
"Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a handful of environmental protection bills into law Thursday, including a ban on the sale of children’s drinking cups that contain the plastics hardener bisphenol-A, or BPA."
Source: Olympian, 03/22/2010
IL: "Bill Would Define Tire Burning as Renewable Energy"
"With just five words quietly slipped into legislation, Illinois lawmakers are moving to include tire burning in the state's definition of renewable energy, a change that would benefit a south suburban incinerator with a long history of pollution problems."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 03/22/2010
"Bees Face 'Unprecedented' Pesticide Exposures"
"A two-year study now provides evidence indicting one likely group of suspects [as a cause of beehive die-offs]: pesticides. It found 'unprecedented levels' of mite-killing chemicals and crop pesticides in hives across the United States and parts of Canada."
Source: Science News, 03/22/2010
"Global Cooling Is Bunk, Draft NASA Study Finds"
"Global warming has neither stopped nor slowed in the past decade, according to a draft analysis of temperature data by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies."
Source: Daily Climate, 03/22/2010
"Offshore Drilling Revenue Sharing Takes Hold in Senate Climate Bill"
"Coastal states that agree to oil and gas drilling off their shores would be offered one-quarter of the revenue, under the latest draft of the new climate and energy bill, sources on and off the Hill say."
Source: ClimateWire, 03/22/2010
"Farmers Hurt By Collapse Of Carbon Credits Market"
"With the cap-and-trade legislation aimed at curbing global warming stalled in Congress, there's an almost-complete collapse of the market for carbon credits. That means profits are drying up for people who are paid to create those carbon credits -- like farmers who manage their land in ways that capture carbon dioxide in the soil."
Source: NPR, 03/19/2010
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