"Courts Rule Against Proposed Alaska Mine"
"State and federal courts handed down three decisions against a proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska that environmentalists are staging a nationwide fight against."
Source: The Hill, 06/01/2015
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"Obama To Fill Chief Safety Regulator Roles for Railroads, Pipelines"
"President Obama has chosen officials to fill the long-vacant roles leading federal agencies that oversee the safety of railroads and pipelines and of hazardous materials."
Source: The Hill, 06/01/2015
Shell Sought To Influence Direction of Science Museum Climate Program
"Shell tried to influence the presentation of a climate change programme it was sponsoring at the Science Museum in London, internal documents seen by the Guardian show."
Source: Guardian, 06/01/2015
"Free of Fanfare, Maryland Adopts Fracking Moratorium"
"Maryland's fracking moratorium survived its last possible political challenge today."
Source: InsideClimate News, 06/01/2015
"E.P.A. Proposes Changes to Fuel Standards"
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday released a much-delayed proposal for the amount of biofuel that must be blended into conventional vehicle fuel, seeking to reduce the levels now specified but still require modest increases over the next few years."
Source: NY Times, 06/01/2015
"E.P.A. Proposal Will Put Bigger Trucks on a Fuel Diet"
"ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Inside the National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory here, a mammoth contraption, with steel rollers, advanced electronics and exhaust tubes, is nearing completion."
Source: NY Times, 06/01/2015
"Bonn U.N. Talks Seek To Trim Unwieldy Climate Change Plan"
"Governments will try on Monday to streamline an 89-page draft text of a U.N. deal to fight climate change due to be agreed in Paris in December, hoping to avoid the acrimony of the last failed attempt."
Source: Reuters, 06/01/2015
10 Billion Tons of Coal Could Erase Obama's Progress on Climate Change
"Some 10.2 billion tons of coal, sitting on 106,00 acres of public land, have been authorized for sale by the Obama administration today [Friday, May 29, 2015]."
Source: Motherboard, 06/01/2015
Digital Terrain: Navigating the New World of Environmental Storytelling
Environmental journalists are charting a new digital terrain, but this changing media landscape can be tough to navigate. Come explore emerging forms of environmental storytelling — online video and long-form narratives, data visualization, podcasting, social media, and more — at a day-long workshop sponsored by SEJ at City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.
"Airport Beekeepers Get a Second Chance"
"Every 10 days, Thad Smith enters a piece of land that is otherwise forbidden to most people: The empty acreage around Chicago’s O’Hare airport. It’s there that Smith and his crew from the Westside Bee Boyz tend to 75 beehives. Last year, he and his fellow beekeepers harvested 1,600 pounds of honey in the otherwise unoccupied land beneath O’Hare’s airspace."
Source: Civil Eats, 05/29/2015
