Who's Biking/Walking in Your State and City?
The Alliance for Biking and Walking's second biennial report, while mainly a recitation of statistics, is a highly useful source of leads and context for transit-related stories.
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USGS Minerals Report: A Tale of Economy and Environment
Many story leads are tucked away in this 196-page report: recession impacts from drops in extraction and consumption, increases in importation of key materials, insights on stories related to climate change and air pollution, and much more.
EPA Launches New Online Regulatory Gateway
The site offers some improvements over poring through the Federal Register, but it's not comprehensive, topics are too broad, and there's poor differentiation between topics and constituencies. On the plus side, visitors can comment on in-process regulations, get alerts about specific regulations, attend online public meetings, and sort in-process regs.
New Fed Climate Change Site Consolidates Information
The site includes news, studies, reports, fact sheets, data, predictions, educational tools, an events calendar, and images. The agency says it will adapt the site in response to comments, so feel free to provide feedback.
Firearms Now Allowed in Parks; Rules Eased in Refuges
Educating your audience about the complicated new law will be a useful public service. It will also familiarize you with the people involved at your local facilities, what steps they are taking, and who you can contact if a shooting incident or other violation occurs.
"House Democrats Seek Probe of BP Offshore Platform"
"A group of 19 House Democrats is asking the Minerals Management Service to investigate whether BP PLC has the required engineering documents to safely operate its Atlantis oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: Greenwire, 03/03/2010
Ag Chair Lincoln Near Top for Utility Campaign Contributions
"One of three Democratic senators who supports blocking U.S. EPA's ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants draws one of the highest amounts of campaign contributions from electric utilities."
Source: Greenwire, 03/03/2010
"Lawsuit Filed Over GMO Crops In Nature Refuge"
"Environmentalists filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on Monday accusing the service of illegally allowing farmers to grow genetically modified crops in a national wildlife refuge."
Source: Reuters, 03/03/2010
"In Utah, a Move To Seize Federal Land"
"The state House passes a bill allowing the use of eminent domain to take protected land from the federal government. Utah wants to develop a stretch outside Arches National Park and other areas."
Source: LA Times, 03/03/2010
"Obama's Homestar Plan Would Pay for Home Energy Efficiency Retrofits"
"President Barack Obama [Tuesday] outlined the details of a new 'Homestar' program that would help create jobs by encouraging American families to invest in energy saving home improvements. The President spoke of the new program while touring a training facility at Savannah Technical College."
Source: ENS, 03/03/2010
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