"Iowa Air Pollutants Push Federal Limits"
"The air across Iowa is so polluted that the state is perilously close to violating new federal limits aimed at protecting human health."
Source: Des Moines Register, 06/15/2009
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"Agriculture Offsets -- a Savior or a Boondoggle?"
"A dispute is heating up over the role of farms and forests in climate legislation."
Source: ClimateWire, 06/15/2009
"DOE Revives FutureGen, Reversing Bush-Era Decision"
"The Obama administration gave conditional support today for a federal-industry partnership that would build an advanced coal-burning power plant in Illinois to trap and store carbon dioxide emissions, reversing a Bush-era decision to abandon the FutureGen project."
Source: Greenwire, 06/15/2009
"Communities at Risk, But Coal Ash Sites Secret"
"Dozens of communities nationwide are at risk from a coal ash spill like the one that blanketed a Tennessee neighborhood last year, but the Obama administration has decided not to tell the public about it because of the danger of a terrorist attack."
Source: AP, 06/15/2009
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Covering Penguins And The Politics Of Denial
By BILL MOYERS
(Excerpts from the keynote address to the annual convention of the Society of Environmental Journalists, Austin, Texas, October 1, 2005. The full text is available at www.sej.org/confer/austin/PenguinsandthePoliticsofDenial.pdf)
Book Shelf, Book 3- A Spiritual Field Guide: Meditations for the Outdoors
A SPIRITUAL FIELD GUIDE: MEDITATIONS FOR THE OUTDOORS
By Bernard Brady and Mark Neuzil
Brazos Press, $12.99
Book Shelf, Book 1-The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
THE GRAIL BIRD: HOT ON THE TRAIL OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
By Tim Gallagher
Houghton Mifflin Company, $25
Reviewed by CHRISTINE HEINRICHS
The announcement of a confirmed sighting of the ivorybilled woodpecker in April 2005 was greeted like a confirmed extraterrestrial alien sighting. It was astonishing, contrary to accepted general wisdom, breathtaking.
Book Shelf, Book 4- The Republican War on Science
THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON SCIENCE
By Chris Mooney
Basic Books, $24.95
Reviewed by STUART LEAVENWORTH
Here's a news flash: President George Bush and some of his minions have targeted scientists who don't share their agenda. They have intimidated certain government researchers, reassigned those who cause trouble for key constituencies and discouraged an entire generation of biologists, climatologists and other professionals from ever working on the federal payroll.
Troubling Predictions Come True For Reporter And Friends
By KATINA GAUDET
"We have a different fear of hurricanes."
My friend Yasmin was trying to rationalize her fearlessness in the face of an imposing Hurricane Katrina, expected to make landfall near New Orleans the next day, from her first-floor Uptown apartment.
But I was having difficulty, although safe in a hotel room near Memphis. I was frantic, yelling into the phone at Yasmin, "You cannot stay there."
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