Beaver: "Voyage of the Dammed"
Beaver may redeem the West from false landscapes of fast-flowing streams with open banks. They may not only return the land to what it was, but conserve water.
Source: High Country News, 06/03/2009
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UL Starts Certifying Green Products
"Underwriters Laboratories, whose ubiquitous product-safety labels have made it household name for more than a century, is pushing hard to make a new name for itself as a global environmental-standards tester."
Source: NYTimes, 06/03/2009
EPA Cites BP Whiting Refinery
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday cited the BP Whiting Refinery for violating federal air standards by releasing a cancer-causing toxin in waste from 2003 to 2008, which at times reached 16 times the acceptable limit, EPA officials said."
Source: NWI Times, 06/03/2009
Suit Aims To Stop Logging Near Rio Grande
Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging a National Fores logging project in Colorado that would impact the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
Source: ENS, 06/03/2009
"Possible Changes to House Climate Bill"
Various House committees will try to remake the climate bill in a shape favored by the interests they represent, before it faces more amendments on the floor this summer.
Source: Reuters, 06/03/2009
"Court Battles Loom Over Gray Wolf In West"
"A pair of federal judges will decide which states in the Northern Rockies have enough gray wolves to allow public hunting, as the bitter debate over the region's wolves heads to courts in Wyoming and Montana."
Source: NPR, 06/03/2009
"California Senate Approves Ban on BPA in Plastics"
California's Senate narrowly passes a ban on BPA, a chemical that threatens child development, in baby bottles and sippy cups. Industry groups are mounting a big PR and lobbying blitz to stop it in the state Assembly.
Source: LA Times, 06/03/2009
"FDA Reviewing Decision on Safety of BPA"
After a letter from key Congressmen, the FDA is reviewing its Bush-era decision that BPA, a chemical used in baby bottles and food containers, is safe.
Source: AP, 06/03/2009
Study Finds Higher Risk from Soot
A new look at the data shows that mortality among people exposed to tiny soot particles is twice as high as previously thought.
Source: NYTimes, 06/03/2009
Bate and Switch
A little-known figure at the American Enterprise institute has been involved for years in discrediting established science to push an anti-regulatory agenda.
Source: NRNS, 06/02/2009
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