"Swine Flu: Crisis Communicator"
"Richard Besser led the United States' top public-health agency as swine flu broke out on its doorstep. And his communication shaped the early days of a pandemic, finds Brendan Maher."
Source: Nature, 01/15/2010
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"China Snaps Up California Solar Market"
"China’s rise as a major solar module maker has been meteoric, but perhaps nowhere has its ascension been faster than in California, the United States’ largest solar market."
Source: Green Inc., 01/15/2010
"Arctic Polar Bears Imperilled by Man-Made Pollution"
"The long term survival of polar bears is being threatened by man-made pollution that is reaching the Arctic. This conclusion comes from a major review of research into how industrial chemicals such as mercury and organochlorines affect the bears."
Source: BBC Earth, 01/15/2010
"The Agency That Wrestles With Wayward Birds and Vanishing Coastlines"
"More questions than answers persist in early efforts to bring climate change into all decisions at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency that manages the nation's wildlife refuges and many of its protected species."
Source: ClimateWire, 01/15/2010
Oil: "Regulator Imposes More Limits on Speculative Trading"
"Federal regulators said on Thursday that they would impose hard limits on energy futures contracts held by commodity traders, part of a move to curb excessive speculation and possibly avoid a repeat of the 2008 run-up in oil prices."
Source: NYTimes, 01/15/2010
"Judge To Weigh Tyson Deal Over 'Antibiotic-Free' Chicken"
"Consumers who thought they were buying antibiotic-free chicken could receive $5 million in cash and coupons under a proposed settlement to a lawsuit contending that the nation's largest poultry producer falsely promoted its birds as being raised without drugs."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 01/15/2010
White House Will Push Ahead With Climate Bill, Stern Tells Investors
"UNITED NATIONS -- U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern today urged nations that signed the Copenhagen Accord to submit their greenhouse gas emissions-reduction targets and to hammer out details critical to implementing the broad agreement."
Source: Greenwire, 01/15/2010
Haiti: "Survivors Face Threat of Outbreak of Disease"
"Doctors and aid workers worry that a wave of infectious disease may soon spread through Haiti, with masses of the newly homeless clustering in public spaces without clean water or sanitation."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 01/15/2010
Lobbyists Called Shots on Murkowski Amendment
Top former Bush administration officials -- now lobbyists -- are directing members of Congress from both parties, and their staff, on exactly how to legislate a repeal of EPA's legal authority to control greenhouse gas emissions. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, is planning to offer the ban as an amendment on the Senate floor. Environmentalists are calling for an ethics investigation.
Source: Post Carbon, 01/15/2010
20 Things We Love About SEJ
Sergeant Pepper may have taught the band to play 20 years ago, but this past Valentine's Day weekend also marked two decades since SEJ incorporated to serve environmental reporters, broadcasters and their constituents everywhere. Read the "20 Things We Love About SEJ," feel the love, and show some if you're so moved — it's never too late!
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