"Asian Carp Threaten TN Native Species"
An invasion of Asian carp is threatening to overwhelm native Tennessee fish species depended on by the state's $1.3 billion sports and commercial fishing industries.
Source: Nashville Tennessean, 03/22/2010
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"Washington Becomes 5th State To Outlaw Bisphenol-A"
"Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a handful of environmental protection bills into law Thursday, including a ban on the sale of children’s drinking cups that contain the plastics hardener bisphenol-A, or BPA."
Source: Olympian, 03/22/2010
IL: "Bill Would Define Tire Burning as Renewable Energy"
"With just five words quietly slipped into legislation, Illinois lawmakers are moving to include tire burning in the state's definition of renewable energy, a change that would benefit a south suburban incinerator with a long history of pollution problems."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 03/22/2010
"Bees Face 'Unprecedented' Pesticide Exposures"
"A two-year study now provides evidence indicting one likely group of suspects [as a cause of beehive die-offs]: pesticides. It found 'unprecedented levels' of mite-killing chemicals and crop pesticides in hives across the United States and parts of Canada."
Source: Science News, 03/22/2010
"Global Cooling Is Bunk, Draft NASA Study Finds"
"Global warming has neither stopped nor slowed in the past decade, according to a draft analysis of temperature data by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies."
Source: Daily Climate, 03/22/2010
"Offshore Drilling Revenue Sharing Takes Hold in Senate Climate Bill"
"Coastal states that agree to oil and gas drilling off their shores would be offered one-quarter of the revenue, under the latest draft of the new climate and energy bill, sources on and off the Hill say."
Source: ClimateWire, 03/22/2010
"Farmers Hurt By Collapse Of Carbon Credits Market"
"With the cap-and-trade legislation aimed at curbing global warming stalled in Congress, there's an almost-complete collapse of the market for carbon credits. That means profits are drying up for people who are paid to create those carbon credits -- like farmers who manage their land in ways that capture carbon dioxide in the soil."
Source: NPR, 03/19/2010
UN Chief: "Bad Water More Deadly Than War"
Bad water kills more people than wars or earthquakes, UN officials declared, as they prepared to celebrate World Water Week next week.
Source: IPS, 03/19/2010
"Syncrude Trial Goes Far Beyond Ducks"
A legal case over the effects of oil sands operations in Alberta by Syncrude Canada Ltd. on ducks is shaping up to be an environmental show trial.
Source: Financial Post, 03/19/2010
"U.S. Utility-Scale Solar Industry Primed to Explode"
"The utility-scale solar industry is ready for what one executive today called 'explosive growth,' and new national polling data released today shows that 75 percent of those surveyed support the development of solar energy plants on public lands."
Source: ENS, 03/19/2010
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