"Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream"
"The dangerous culture of male entitlement and sexual hostility hiding within America's national parks and forests."
Source: Huffington Post, 03/21/2016
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EPA Orders Nationwide Review Of Art Glass Makers After Portland Scare
"Federal inspectors are investigating whether glass makers outside Oregon are emitting the same toxic chemicals that landed two Portland art glass makers in the spotlight, records show."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 03/21/2016
"They Told Me To Take Money And Run, Says Pipeline Whistleblower"
"A few days after TransCanada terminated his job and offered him a severance package, a whistleblower travelled to Calgary to meet with staff and lawyers at Canada's federal pipeline enforcement agency."
Source: National Observer, 03/21/2016
"Is The Water Safe In Indian Country? EPA Says It Often Doesn’t Know"
"The Obama administration is sounding alarms over potential dangers in the water supplies on the nation’s Indian reservations, saying the vast majority of tribal members live on reservations that haven’t adopted federally approved standards."
Source: McClatchy, 03/21/2016
"In Win For Beekeepers, Minnesota Links Insecticide To Damaged Hives"
"In the first test of a landmark environmental law, Minnesota has compensated two beekeepers whose hives were severely damaged last spring by toxic dust that drifted off the fields of a neighbor planting corn."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 03/21/2016
"Feds Propose 5-Year Water Bottling Permit For Nestle In California"
"Federal officials are proposing to give Nestle a new five-year permit to bottle water on federal land in drought-ridden California."
Source: The Hill, 03/21/2016
Tipping Point: Record Number Of Americans See Global Warming As Threat
"New polling data shows that public concern about climate change is at a new high, as the US emerges from its warmest-ever winter".
Source: Guardian, 03/21/2016
"E.P.A. Faces Bigger Tasks, Smaller Budgets and Louder Critics"
"Under fierce attack from the political right, and with even some Democrats questioning its competence, the Environmental Protection Agency is facing a tumultuous election year — with rising regulatory responsibilities, falling budgets and its very existence at stake."
Source: NY Times, 03/21/2016
Merrick Garland: Why Environmental Protection Advocates Are Reassured
"The rulings of Obama's Supreme Court nominee position him squarely in the mainstream of environmental jurisprudence, a big shift from Scalia."
Source: InsideClimate News, 03/21/2016
