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New Fed Climate Change Site Consolidates Information

The site includes news, studies, reports, fact sheets, data, predictions, educational tools, an events calendar, and images. The agency says it will adapt the site in response to comments, so feel free to provide feedback.

Firearms Now Allowed in Parks; Rules Eased in Refuges

Educating your audience about the complicated new law will be a useful public service. It will also familiarize you with the people involved at your local facilities, what steps they are taking, and who you can contact if a shooting incident or other violation occurs.

"Lawsuit Filed Over GMO Crops In Nature Refuge"

"Environmentalists filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on Monday accusing the service of illegally allowing farmers to grow genetically modified crops in a national wildlife refuge."

Source: Reuters, 03/03/2010

"In Utah, a Move To Seize Federal Land"

"The state House passes a bill allowing the use of eminent domain to take protected land from the federal government. Utah wants to develop a stretch outside Arches National Park and other areas."

Source: LA Times, 03/03/2010

"Obama's Homestar Plan Would Pay for Home Energy Efficiency Retrofits"

"President Barack Obama [Tuesday] outlined the details of a new 'Homestar' program that would help create jobs by encouraging American families to invest in energy saving home improvements. The President spoke of the new program while touring a training facility at Savannah Technical College."

Source: ENS, 03/03/2010

Will Unlikely Alliance Bring Klamath Dam Removal?

"Maybe the Klamath River basin would have turned itself around without Jeff Mitchell. Back in 2001, at the pinnacle of the conflict over the river’s fate, when the Klamath earned its reputation as the most contentious river basin in the country, Mitchell planted a seed."

Source: Earth Island Journal, 03/03/2010

Jones: Temperature Data Withheld at Countries' Request

"Prominent British researchers at the heart of the hacked email scandal shot down accusations of illegally withholding scientific information charting the planet's temperature, telling a parliamentary hearing that certain governments had prohibited them from publishing all the raw data."

Source: SolveClimate, 03/03/2010

"California Limits SF6, World's Most Potent Greenhouse Gas"

"The California Air Resources Board has adopted a measure developed with representatives of the electrical utilities that will limit and monitor the emissions of the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride, SF6, from high-voltage electrical applications."

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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