Saturday, December 16, 2017

Ecology and Pollution related links 121617



Moody's Warns Cities to Address Climate Risks or Face Downgrades


 

Letters From the December 4-11, 2017, Issue: A hearty issue… Shell games… Stars and semiautomatics…


 

The Plot to Loot America’s Wilderness: A little-known bureaucrat named James Cason is reshaping the Department of the Interior.


 

The Vultures Circling Puerto Rico: A Special Investigation


 

The Personal Is Not Always Political: The problem with the media’s individualistic response to collective tragedy.


 

Corporate-Spun Science Should Not Be Guiding Policy


 

Monsanto says Mexico revokes permit to market GMO soy in seven states


 

Organic Consumers Statement on Recent Rulings Against Monsanto in Mexico


 

Sugar industry sponsorship of germ-free rodent studies linking sucrose to hyperlipidemia and cancer: An historical analysis of internal documents


 

Sugar Industry Long Downplayed Potential Harms


 

Monsanto Fails to Shake City of San Diego in Water Pollution Lawsuit


 

GMO Labeling Update: Some Senators Calling for On-Package Text to Disclose the Presence of GM Ingredients


 

Why FEMA is making a big mistake in Puerto Rico: The agency is proposing one mega-contract for delivering relief to the island. Here's a better way.


 

Global Warning: Greenland’s melting glaciers may someday flood your city


 

After the Keystone XL Approval, Here’s What’s Next for the Climate Movement: The battle is far from over—and has already transformed the way environmental campaigns are waged.


 

Alaska Grassroots Alliance Aim To Melt GOP’s Cold Cold Heart: Armed with hot cocoa and a smile, these progressives have spent all year protesting Trump-era policies.


 

Defending the Land, 50 Feet in the Air: Meet the tree-sitters fighting the Mariner East 2 Pipeline.


 

Over 204,000 Puerto Ricans have arrived in Florida blowing past previous estimates.


 

Dance By The Light Of The 2017 Supermoon: The How And When


 

Thousands protest Trump's Utah monument reduction plan


 

Decision day looms for Utah hills and their people


 

Trump shrinks Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments in historic proclamations


 

Study: Rising seas may put US historical landmarks under water this century


 

World Mercury Project’s $100,000 Challenge: RFK Jr. Will Pay For Proof Thimerosal is Safe To Inject Into Humans


 

Trump to Gut Bears Ears by 85%, Grand Staircase-Escalante by 50% on Monday


 

How Senator Murkowski Sold Out The Arctic And The American People With One Vote


 

Pilfered artifacts, three suicides and the struggle over federal land in Utah


 

FEMA may ask employees to pay back overtime pay


 

Enbridge shuts down oil flow through Straits of Mackinac pipeline due to high winds, waves


 

Gates Foundation Secretly Paid “Experts” to Manipulate UN Over Gene Drives


 

2017 Theme: ‘Caring for the Planet starts from the Ground’


 

UK is 30-40 years away from 'eradication of soil fertility', warns Gove: Farmers must be incentivised to tackle decline in biodiversity, says environment secretary at launch of parliamentary soil body


 

Can McDonald's help solve climate change?


 

Ryan pledges 'entitlement reform' in 2018


 

The Environmental Scandal in Scott Pruitt’s Backyard: It’s one of the dirtiest places in America. Former residents of Tar Creek, Oklahoma, want to know why Trump’s EPA chief didn’t prosecute allegations of wrongdoing during a federal buyout program.


 

Is Big Food's Lobbying Arm on the Brink of Extinction?


 

STOP! Corporate TAKEOVER of Nebraska Family Farms


 

Regeneration International: Report and Lessons from COP23


 

Geoengineering: Pseudoscience at COP23


 

Pastured Poultry: Better Way Forward


 

The Trump Administration Is Scuttling a Rule That Would Save People From Dying of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: It took 16 years and more than 1,000 deaths for the Consumer Products Safety Commission to crack down on deadly portable generators. Trump’s appointees could undo that in a matter of months.


 

Southern California Wildfires map


 

Op-Ed Why are California's homes burning? It isn't natural disaster it's bad planning


 

Editorial While Southern California battles its wildfires, we have to start preparing for our hotter, drier future


 

Hurricane Maria’s Actual Death Toll May Be 17 Times Higher Than the Current Official Count: The government says 62 people died. The data says more like 1,052.


 

Washington Post Just Uncovered the REAL Reason Trump Shrunk Bear Ears, And It’s SINISTER


 

Exclusive Photos Contradict Murray Energy CEO’s Claim He Had “Nothing To Do with” Rick Perry’s Coal Bailout: At a previously undisclosed March 29 meeting, Robert Murray gave Perry a hug and a wishlist. Six months later, Perry unveiled a controversial plan that echoed one of Murray's proposals.


 

Why the Sanders-Warren Plan for Puerto Rico Is a Model for Climate Legislation: To repair after disasters—and prevent future ones—we can’t be afraid to spend public money on things people need.


 

You’re a Sad Man, Jerry Brown: At the U.N. climate change Conference in Bonn, Jerry Brown couldn’t shake his hecklers.


 

How We Use Land in the United States and How That Has Changed


 

Fire crews fighting to defend Carpinteria from re-energized Thomas fire


 

Trump’s senior environmental nominee busted for plagiarizing her responses to Congress


 

Sign Today: Don’t Put a Monsanto Hire in Charge of Chemical Safety!


 

Probiotic in Yogurt May Improve Depressive Symptoms


 

BBC How Plants Communicate & Think - Amazing Nature Documentary


 

'No More Climate Tweets': Zinke Scolds Head of National Park for Tweeting About Scientific Reality.  Interior Secretary sends message that under the Trump administration sending out content that conveys scientific consensus of climate change is a no-no


 

The EPA Is Using Taxpayer Dollars to Track the Press: Scott Pruitt's office has hired a Republican opposition-research firm to monitor the media's coverage of the agency.

No comments:

Post a Comment