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"Climate Talks To Begin Grappling With Treaty Text"

"Delegates from 174 countries and 230 nongovernment interest groups meet from Monday through June 12 in Bonn, Germany, in the second of five negotiating conferences to culminate with a final agreement being adopted in December in Copenhagen, Denmark."

Source: AP, 06/01/2009

"Refugees Join List of Climate-Change Issues"

Refugees from lands made uninhabitable by climate change -- expected in tens of millions -- may soon be threatening peace and security in many parts of the world. The UN is expected soon to address this issue.

Source: NYTimes, 06/01/2009

"Warming and Death"

"There are significant questions about the robustness of the numbers at the heart of the new report estimating more than 300,000 deaths are already being caused each year by global warming...."

Source: Dot Earth, 06/01/2009

"Toxic Mud, Heading to Texas, Stirs Town"

The toxic, PCB-laced sediment now being dredged from the Hudson River has to go somewhere -- a landfill in Texas.

Source: NYTimes, 06/01/2009

Camp Lejeune Vets Suffer from Water

"Camp Lejeune, a sprawling Marine base on the North Carolina seaboard, is the site of what some scientists call the worst public drinking-water contamination in the nation's history."

Source: St. Petersburg Times, 06/01/2009

"Groups Ask EPA to Ban Lead Tire Weights"

"The federal government should ban the use of lead weights, those fingertip-size chunks of metal that balance the tires of cars and trucks, says a petition filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week."

Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 06/01/2009

"Green Promise Seen in Switch to LED Lighting"

A new technology called LED lighting promises more savings in greenhouse emissions and longer appliance life than compact fluorescent bulbs -- at a price.

Source: NYTimes, 06/01/2009

"Strategy Being Devised To Protect Use of BPA"

"Manufacturers of cans for beverages and foods and some of their biggest customers, including Coca-Cola, are trying to devise a public relations and lobbying strategy to block government bans of a controversial chemical used in the linings of metal cans and lids."

Source: WashPost, 06/01/2009

UVM to Host Vermont-Favored Hearty Party

By CHERYL DORSCHNER

Every year that moveable feast, known as the SEJ Conference Saturday night reception, rolls out its local talent and regional cuisine. Veteran conference-goers still speak in hushed tones of the 2003 party at New Orleans' Mardi Gras World and gyrate at the thought of 2004 in Pittsburgh with "No Bad Ju-Ju."

This year, the Vermont conference team promises to take the concept of "local" to a new level, thanks to this event's sponsorship by co-host the University of Vermont.

The Case Against Fluoride Mounts

By BETTE HILEMAN

Until very recently, the mere mention that fluoridated water might cause adverse health effects was likely to be met with deep skepticism, even derision. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention still calls water fluoridation the greatest health triumph of the past 50 years.

But those attitudes are beginning to change.

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