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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS
New Partnership Call: Pediatric Integrative Health: Approaches to Optimizing "Whole Child" Wellness 8/12/10: MP3 recording available: On the Ground in the Gulf Coast: A conversation with Wilma Subra and Michael Lerner
CHE WORKING GROUP EVENTS
CHE-Alaska: Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health and the Promise of Green Chemistry: A discussion with author Elizabeth Grossman:
September 15, 2010
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 2 Sep Environmentalists stunned by failures of key measures in California Legislature. Activists expected big gains, but a ban on plastic grocery bags, another on the chemical bisphenol-A used in baby bottles and a bid to boost alternative energy fell short in the face of heavy industry opposition. 2 Sep BP spent $93 million on advertising after Gulf oil spill. BP has spent millions on print and TV ads trumpeting its cleanup efforts in the Gulf. But federal lawmakers say that money could have been better spent helping businesses affected by the oil spill. 2 Sep Deepwater Horizon: After the oil. When oil stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the ecosystems under assault started on a long road to recovery, and work has begun for researchers assessing their chances. Researchers worry that toxic components in the oil could wipe out generations of some species, but there is no way to predict the effects. 2 Sep Enbridge denies allegations of coercion. Enbridge Inc. is facing an investigation by U.S. officials into complaints that it coerced residents near its Michigan pipeline spill into giving up their rights to sue, in return for paying for items such as air purifiers and hotel rooms for those who were evacuated from their homes. 2 Sep Alaska pipeline spill probe shows pattern. The company that runs the trans-Alaska pipeline remains under federal investigation and is in the middle of major changes after an internal probe this summer raised serious concerns about how it handled a major pipeline leak and emergency shutdown in May. 2 Sep Battle looming under the volcano. U.S. environmentalists are bracing to battle a Canadian company that has plans for a copper-and-gold mine in the shadow of Mount St. Helens, the Washington state volcano that famously blew its top in 1980 and is now the centre of a national protected area. 2 Sep Feds fail to use land for solar power. Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground. 2 Sep Climate change puts China harvests at risk. Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday. 2 Sep Facebook faces campaign to switch to renewable energy. In one of the web's fastest-growing environmental campaigns, Greenpeace international says at least 500,000 people have now protested Facebook's intention to run its giant new data centre mainly on electricity produced by burning coal power. 2 Sep Niger floods bring disaster on top of food crisis. Collapsed buildings, flooded-out rice paddies: the floods in Niger are not as spectacular as those in Pakistan, but they spell disaster for a people already stricken by a food crisis. 2 Sep Krill crisis feared in the Antarctic. Ecologists are warning that the rapid growth in krill fishing is adding to the pressure of environmental changes threatening the creatures. Researchers suspect that Antarctic krill are also feeling the effect of climate change. 2 Sep Mammals plunge into extinction. At 136 sites across northern Australia that have been repeatedly surveyed since 2001, the mammal populations have dropped by an average of 75 per cent. The number of sites classified as ''empty'' of mammal activity rose from 13 per cent in 1996 to 55 per cent in 2009. 2 Sep Fears 'safe limit' of chemical found in food containers is wrong. Scientists have called for an immediate review of the safety guidelines for the chemical bisphenol-A, which is linked with numerous illnesses including cancer. Critics charge that the evidence used by authorities is 20 years old. 2 Sep German firm at heart of US tainted honey probe. The US government announced criminal charges Wednesday against executives from six German and Chinese companies accused of smuggling antibiotic-tainted Chinese honey in order to avoid import duties. 2 Sep 'Grade A' stamp on eggs isn't what it seems. According to a USDA official, consumers routinely misinterpret the "USDA Grade A" shield on egg cartons. All it means is that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had a "grader" at an egg-packing facility who checked the eggs' size and color and made sure the shells weren't cracked. 2 Sep Food fights: Locavores, conventional food fans battle over benefits. A growing chorus of writers, politicians and bloggers is challenging the locavore movement, painting it as naive and elitist at best and dangerous to the livelihood of conventional commodity farmers at worst. 2 Sep How organic strawberries 'are more nutritious.' Organic strawberries may cost more, but it's a price worth paying, scientists say. 2 Sep Construction pollution slows with economy. The California Air Resources Board acknowledged Tuesday that the state vastly over-estimated the amount of diesel pollution emitted by big off-road construction vehicles when the agency adopted regulations in 2007 to reduce diesel pollution from the industry. 2 Sep On course for a cleaner Hudson. The cleanup of the Hudson River by the General Electric Company turned out to be full of unexpected problems. This does not mean the project should be abandoned. |