"Moscow Investigates 'Pigeon Apocalypse'"
"Officials raise alert as 'zombie' birds fall to earth amid fears city may be in grip of avian ailment Newcastle disease."
Source: Guardian, 08/20/2013
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The Supreme Court Revisits Chevron Deference to Agencies
This Environmental Law Institute seminar in Washington, DC (and via teleconference) will offer practitioners the most current information on the way courts view federal agencies’ decisions.
"With Proposed Rail Expansion, Northwest Confronts Its Clean Image"
"SPOKANE, Wash. — The Pacific Northwest’s sense of itself can sometimes seem green to the point of parody: a medium-roast blend of piney peaks and urban cool, populated by residents who look descended from lumberjacks or fishermen."
Source: NY Times, 08/20/2013
"Wrecked Fukushima Plant Springs Highly Radioactive Water Leak"
"TOKYO -- Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl."
Source: Reuters, 08/20/2013
"Coal Foe Named to FERC Is Latest Obama Pick Drawing Ire"
"President Barack Obama’s nominee to head a little-known energy commission has become the latest appointee drawn into the contentious debate over climate change."
Source: Bloomberg, 08/20/2013
"The Battle Over Global Warming Is All in Your Head"
"Despite the fact that more people now acknowledge that climate change represents a significant threat to human well-being, this has yet to translate into any meaningful action. Psychologists may have an answer as to why this is."
Source: TIME, 08/20/2013
Ohio Regulator, Says He Was Pushed Out For Opposing Coal Industry
"WASHINGTON -- Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) has forced out the head of a key division of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency in response to pressure from the coal industry, according to an email obtained by The Huffington Post."
Source: Huffington Post, 08/20/2013
"Environmental Concerns Remain Over Coal-Ash Ponds"
"DANVILLE, Ill. -- It's been more than two years since Dynegy shut down its coal-fired Vermilion Power Station, but environmental concerns still remain at the idled facility's coal-ash waste ponds that were built next to the Middle Fork River, just upstream of Kickapoo State Park and other protected lands."
Source: Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, 08/20/2013
"Lyme Disease Far More Common Than Previously Known"
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 300,000 Americans are getting Lyme disease every year, and the toll is growing."
Source: NPR, 08/20/2013
"Copper May Play Key Role in Alzheimer's Disease"
"New research finds that copper in amounts readily found in our drinking water, the foods we eat and the vitamin supplements we take likely plays a key role in initiating and fueling the abnormal protein build-up and brain inflammation that are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease."
"While the mineral is important to healthy nerve conduction, hormone secretion and the growth of bones and connective tissue, a team of researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center suggested that too much of it may be a bad thing, and they set about to explore copper's dark side.
Source: LA Times, 08/20/2013
