"A New Divestment Focus: Fossil Fuels"
"In the 1980s, it was South Africa. In the 1990s, it was tobacco. Now fossil fuels have become the focus of those who would change the world through the power of investing."
Source: NY Times, 09/06/2013
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"Exhaust, Diesel Fumes Foul Public Schoolyards Across Washington State"
"More than half a century has elapsed since the Seattle School Board — with nary a raised eyebrow, records indicate — voted to allow one of the nation's biggest and busiest highways to be built cheek-by-jowl with John Marshall Junior High, trading away the school's playground for a larger plot of land nearby."
Source: InvestigateWest, 09/06/2013
"Report: Climate Change Intensified 2012 Record Heat In U.S."
"Manmade climate change played a substantial role in the exceptional warmth in the eastern U.S. during the spring of 2012, a major NOAA-led report concludes. Not only that, it greatly increased the odds of the punishing heat that baked the north central and northeast U.S. during the following summer."
Source: Capital Weather Gang, 09/06/2013
BSR Conference 2018: A New Blueprint for Business
The BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) Conference 2018 in New York aims to inspire a new vision for resilient business strategies, governance, management approaches, and collaboration..
Does The Environment Matter?
The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, in association with the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, presents panelists (including 3 SEJ members) from a wide range of media who will discuss the state of environmental journalism, addressing questions about the future of investigative reporting, evolving media and why we should care about the environment. Moderated by National Geographic's Edwin Dobb.
"Carnival, EPA Reach Pact To Curb Cruise Ship Air Pollution"
"Federal regulators have reached a tentative deal with Carnival Corp. on a plan to reduce air pollution from nearly a third of its cruise ships, but the accord comes too late to reverse at least a temporary loss of lucrative cruise business for Baltimore."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 09/05/2013
"Air Pollution Blamed for 200,000 Early U.S. Deaths Each Year"
"CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Polluted air causes roughly 200,000 early deaths each year across the United States, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology conclude after tracking emissions from industrial smokestacks, vehicle tailpipes, marine and rail transport, and commercial and residential heating."
Source: ENS, 09/05/2013
"Drugs Found in Lake Michigan, Miles From Sewage Outfalls"
"Prescription drugs are contaminating Lake Michigan two miles from Milwaukee’s sewage outfalls, suggesting that the lake is not diluting the compounds as most scientists expected, according to new research."
Source: EHN, 09/05/2013
"Ann Arbor Calls On DEQ To Tighten Standards for Dioxane Cleanup"
"Fearing the city's primary drinking water source could be at risk of contamination in the years ahead, Ann Arbor officials took action Tuesday night to send a message to the state."
Source: Michigan Live, 09/05/2013
"Nuclear Trashmen Gain From Record U.S. Reactor Shutdowns"
"More than 50 years into the age of nuclear energy, one of the biggest growth opportunities may be junking old reactors."
Source: Bloomberg, 09/05/2013
