"FEMA Faces Criticism for Increasing Risky Development Behind Levees"
Changes in federal flood insurance policy, along with increased flood risks from global warming, may encourage development in the wrong places.
Source: ClimateWire, 01/19/2012
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"Obama Administration Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline"
"President Obama, denouncing a 'rushed and arbitrary deadline' set by congressional Republicans, announced Wednesday that he was rejecting a Canadian firm's application for a permit to build and operate the Keystone XL pipeline, a massive project that would have stretched from Canada's oil sands to refineries in Texas.
Source: Wash Post, 01/19/2012
Tap the Encyclopedia of Life's Vast Reservoir of Knowledge
From the latest issue of SEJ's biweekly TipSheet: EOL, which is searchable by both common and scientific terms, has vastly expanded its content since its launch in 2008 and now provides extensive nitty-gritty on about half of all described species, as laid out in more than 950,000 pages and more than 760,000 images.
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2012 Snow Cover Starting Out Very Low
Snow cover has many implications, from ski resorts short on snow and farmers who rely on snowmelt for irrigation to firefighters and residents battling major fires in unusual locations in the middle of winter and smothering blizzards in areas at the other end of the extreme snow spectrum this year.
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EPA Releases 2010 TRI National Analysis
The analysis can be a useful starting point for targeting angles you want to investigate for toxic pollution stories. The raw data also offer numerous ways to look at occurrences and trends in many ways nationally and locally the agency hasn't addressed or emphasized in its analysis.
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EPA To Release Dioxin Noncancer Risk Reassessment
The assessments, expected late January 2012, could have wide-ranging direct and indirect effects in realms such as toxic site cleanups, brownfield development, manufacturing processes, domestic food production and sales, and international trade of food and possibly other goods.
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"Problems Plague Cleanup at Hanford Nuclear Waste Site"
"HANFORD SITE, Wash. – Seven decades after scientists came here during World War II to create plutonium for the first atomic bomb, a new generation is struggling with an even more daunting task: cleaning up the radioactive mess."
Source: USA TODAY, 01/18/2012
"Rising Home Insurance Rates Point To Climate Change"
"Insurance companies don’t care if you believe in climate change or not: Your premiums are going up anyhow."
Source: LA Times, 01/18/2012
"New Recycling Company Springs From Old Mattresses"
"Old mattresses are among the worst kinds of household waste: Most recycling companies won't touch them, and landfills would rather not. But a new business in Nashville that started as a college project hopes to move mattress recycling into the mainstream — and employ former convicts in the process."
Source: NPR, 01/18/2012
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