"Feds, States Join to Safeguard Western Wildlife Corridors"
Western governors and cabinet secretaries signed an agreement to work together on protecting wildlife corridors in the face of new electric transmission lines.
Source: ENS, 06/16/2009
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"Some Oil- and Gas-Drilling Leases May Be Reinstated"
"The leases, auctioned near the end of the Bush administration, were blocked by Obama's Interior Department. Now a report opens the door to 30 of them being reissued."
Source: LA Times, 06/16/2009
Pitching Diesels As An Eco-Friendly Option
If you’re thinking about buying a cleaner, more fuel-efficient car, you might think a hybrid is your best option. But some automakers want people to look at an older technology when they’re looking for green cars: the diesel engine. The Environment Report's Julie Grant reports.
Source: Pitching Diesels As An Eco-Friendly Option, 06/16/2009
"Obama Mountaintop Plan Disappoints Appalachian Advocates"
"The Obama administration's new interagency plan to regulate mountaintop removal coal mining met with mixed reactions from Appalachian community advocates."
Source: ENS, 06/16/2009
"EPA to Test 10,000 Indiana Yards for Lead from Ancient Factories"
"At least 10,000 more properties in residential neighborhoods of Evansville will be tested for lead and arsenic contamination in the soil of their yards" from foundries going back to the 1880s.
Source: ENS, 06/16/2009
"USA, Canada to Modernize Great Lakes Water Quality Pact"
"The US and Canada have agreed to update the 37-year-old Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement that commits both countries 'to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the waters of the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem.'"
Source: ENS, 06/16/2009
"Making the Case for Climate as a Migration Driver"
A new report says that climate change is already causing widespread human migration.
Source: NYTimes, 06/16/2009
"EPA Downplays Dredging Risk to Bay City Water Supply"
"Nearly a month after the onset of a navigational dredging project in the Saginaw River that some worry will send dioxin-contaminated sediments downstream toward the intakes for Bay City’s water supply, EPA officials responded to citizen concerns by announcing it would not test the water for the toxin."
Source: Michigan Messenger, 06/16/2009
"Illnesses Come to Light in Claims Against Disney"
"As their attorneys shuffle between four similar lawsuits that allege the Walt Disney Co. has for decades contaminated groundwater with cancer-causing chromium 6 and other toxic chemicals, stories of ill health from the plaintiffs are beginning to emerge."
Source: Glendale News Press, 06/16/2009
"Target Dumps Illegally, Says California Suit"
"California is accusing Target Corp. of being a poor environmental citizen."
Source: Minneapolis Star Trib, 06/16/2009
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