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Letter from the Editor: SEJournal Goes Digital

Starting this fall, we’ll be producing a new SEJournal weekly e-newsletter that will continue the same high-quality news and features you’ve been getting in the print publication, only with a vastly shorter time from pen to (web) publication and in a way that’s easier to search, find, bookmark and share. Not only that, we’re re-imagining the print SEJournal as a topically focused issue worthy of keeping as a reference work, and published as (or almost as) regularly. Read more from SEJournal editor Adam Glenn (pictured).

"Green Party's Jill Stein Charged With Trespassing, Mischief"

"A North Dakota judge issued a warrant Wednesday for the arrest of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who is accused of spray-painting construction equipment during a protest against the Dakota Access pipeline."

Source: AP, 09/08/2016

Yosemite Announces Biggest Expansion In 70 Years, Adds Meadows, Forest

"In its biggest expansion in decades, Yosemite National Park on Wednesday broadened its western boundary by adding 400 acres of lush meadowlands edged with cedars and ponderosa pines that provide habitat for some of California’s most threatened wildlife."

Source: LA Times, 09/08/2016

"Pressure for G20 Deadline On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Shifts To Germany"

"After this week's G20 summit in China failed to set a target year to phase out hundreds of billions of dollars in state subsidies for polluting fossil fuels, green groups and experts are urging Germany to finish the job as host of next year's summit."

Source: Reuters, 09/08/2016

13 Months After Spill, Colorado's Gold King Mine Named Superfund Site

"Thirteen months after an Environmental Protection Agency mistake sent millions of gallons of bright orange wastewater into a Colorado river, the agency has declared the Gold King Mine and 47 other locations in the region Superfund sites, Colorado Public Radio reports."

Source: NPR, 09/08/2016

"Expanded U.S. Habitat Protection Ordered For Rare Lynx"

"A federal judge ordered U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday to enlarge habitat protections in Idaho, Montana and Colorado for the Canada lynx, a rare wild cat that roams the Rockies and mountain forests of several other states."

Source: Reuters, 09/08/2016

"As Oceans Continue to Warm, Consequences Grow More Dire, Study Says"

"Much of the heat of global warming has been absorbed by the sea, with a steep cost to marine life, ecosystems and the people that depend on them."

Source: InsideClimate News, 09/08/2016

"EPA To Shut Some Oklahoma Wastewater Wells After Quake"

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will order wastewater disposal wells shut near the epicenter of a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that struck on Saturday around Pawnee, Oklahoma, local media reported on Tuesday."

Source: Reuters, 09/08/2016

"Judge Blocks Central California Oil Development Over Fracking"

"A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from opening more than 1 million acres in Central California to oil drilling because the agency did not properly explore the potential dangers of fracking."

Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 09/08/2016

"BLM: Long-Buried IG Probe Finds Ex-Official Took Gifts, Lied"

"A former top Bureau of Land Management official in New Mexico who later headed an oil and gas trade group accepted improper industry gifts while at the agency and 'attempted to obstruct' a federal investigation into his conduct, according to an inspector general's report that was kept from the public for more than three years."

Source: Greenwire, 09/08/2016

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