Farmers Urge Obama Admin To Suspend Ethanol Quota Amid Drought
"EPA's requirements for corn ethanol will drive food prices even higher after an already distressed harvest, growers warn."
Source: Guardian, 07/31/2012
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Gulf Spill Restoration Should Include Land Purchases: Enviros
"More than two years after the catastrophic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, environmental groups say billions of dollars the British oil giant is expected to spend on restoration should go toward buying tens of thousands of acres of coastal land for conservation, rebuilding Louisiana's eroding wetlands and creating nearly 200 miles of oyster reefs."
Source: AP, 07/19/2012
"Florida's Top Wetlands Expert Reinstated, But Details Remain Murky"
"The state's top wetlands expert has been reinstated after a three-week investigation, but the question of who initiated it and why remains unclear. Connie Bersok was put on paid leave from the state Department of Environmental Protection on May 11, two days after she refused to approve a permit for the Highlands Ranch Mitigation Bank in Clay County. Bersok told co-workers she had complained to the DEP's inspector general about her bosses' push to approve the Highlands Ranch permit, then wound up suspended herself."
Source: Tampa Bay Times, 06/06/2012
"Wetlands Expert Suspended by DEP After She Refuses To Approve Permit"
"Florida's top state wetlands expert has been suspended after she refused to issue a permit on a controversial project -- one that she said her boss was willing to bend the rules to approve."
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Source: Tampa Bay Times, 05/29/2012
"EPA Report Outlines Potential Pebble Mine Risks"
"Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in southwestern Alaska's copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report issued Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: Reuters, 05/21/2012
"Fears of Gene Pollution Emerge In Tijuana River"
"It’s the kind of scenario that might evolve in Hollywood: A college professor detects drug-resistance genes collecting in local wetlands, where they survive for weeks and are spread far and wide by seabirds.
But the discovery of extra-hardy DNA flourishing on the edge of San Diego isn’t science fiction. It’s the result of research by David Cummings, a microbiologist at Point Loma Nazarene University.
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, 05/08/2012
"Migrating Waterfowl Die From Lack of Water"
"The deaths of up to 20,000 migrating birds this year in a wildlife refuge near the Oregon border has renewed debate about resource management on the Klamath River, where myriad competing interests are fighting for water rights."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 04/23/2012
Obama Proposes Reviving Wetlands Policy Industry Blocked Under Bush
"In 2006, developers, mining companies and agribusinesses convinced the George W. Bush administration to scale back a proposal that would have widened federal protections for wetlands and waterways in the wake of a muddled Supreme Court ruling on Clean Water Act enforcement."
Source: Greenwire, 04/19/2012
"U.S. Forest Service Spends $40.6 Million for Lands in 15 States"
"WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. Forest Service is investing $40.6 million to acquire 27 pieces of land in 15 states that the agency says will help safeguard clean water, provide recreational access, preserve wildlife habitat, enhance scenic vistas and protect historic and wilderness areas."
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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"Restoring Louisiana Coast a National Priority, Report Says"
"Louisiana and the nation can't wait 50 years to restore economically and environmentally important coastal wetlands, a task that is likely to cost $50 billion or more, says a new report released Monday by a team of state and national environmental and social scientists and engineers. And the rest of the nation should shoulder part of the cost, the report says."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 04/13/2012
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