"Study: Colorado Forests Not Doomed"
"Intensive research shows vigorous regrowth in beetle-killed tracts."
Source: Summit County Voice, 02/22/2013
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"La. Coast Facing Grim Reality: Seas Rising Faster Than Predictions"
"NEW ORLEANS -- Stunning new data not yet publicly released shows Louisiana losing its battle with rising seas much more quickly than even the most pessimistic studies have predicted to date."
Source: The Lens, 02/22/2013
"Groups Flock To White House To Talk 'Fracking' Rules"
"Environmental advocates and representatives from the oil-and-gas industry are flocking to the White House following the submission of a draft rule that would govern the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing on public lands."
Source: The Hill, 02/22/2013
"Unlocking the Conspiracy Mind-Set"
New social science research says that climate change deniers are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. Climate change deniers say the study is evidence of a conspiracy.
Source: Green/NYT, 02/22/2013
"Report: Flaws In EPA Drilling Pollution Data"
"Limited data and unreliable estimates on air pollution from oil and natural gas production is hindering the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to police the drilling boom, the agency's internal watchdog said in a report released Thursday."
Source: AP, 02/22/2013
"One-Third of Seafood Mislabeled, Study Finds"
"If you order tuna at a D.C. restaurant, chances are half the time you’ll be getting another, less expensive fish in its place. But those odds are better than if you had wanted snapper. Testers nationwide found that 87 percent of the time, restaurants and grocery stores were selling something else under that label."
Source: Wash Post, 02/22/2013
"Specialists Working To Kill Apache Well in Gulf"
"Drilling specialists have been pumping heavy fluids into a gas well 50 miles off the Louisiana coast in a bid to halt natural gas moving among underground formations at the site."
Source: FuelFix, 02/22/2013
"Tundra Fires Become More Widespread"
"Wildfires in Alaska have become more widespread over the past 50 years, according to scientists in the US. The result suggests that Arctic wildfires will have an important effect on the climate in years to come – although whether it will be positive or negative, the researchers cannot say."
Source: Environmental Research Web, 02/22/2013
"Dow AgroSciences Wins Bid to Overturn Pesticide Proposals"
"Dow Agrosciences LLC and two other pesticide makers won a bid to overturn U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service proposals to protect salmon when an appeals court found the agency’s decision 'arbitrary and capricious.'"
Source: Bloomberg, 02/22/2013
"Fungicide Use Surging, Largely Unmonitored"
A surge in the use of fungicides is bringing higher crop yields; but experts warn that there is not enough monitoring of the emerging fungicide contamination of streams -- and that not enough is known about the health consequences.
Source: EHN, 02/22/2013
