Archive for February, 2009
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON In what eventually could become a major bureaucratic turf war, there have been stirrings on Capitol Hill about moving the U.S. Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department.
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AP - Nothing says summer in Iowa like a cloud of dust behind a combine.
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AFP - A Japanese court Friday ordered the government to pay more than 57 million dollars in compensation to residents over noise pollution from a US air base on the southern island of Okinawa.
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OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (OneWorld.net) - Thousands of protestors will stage an act of mass civil disobedience at the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant in Washington, DC Monday, in what may be the highest profile act of civil disobedience on climate change in the United States.
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AP - The Russian navy finally admitted Friday it caused an oil slick off Ireland’s southwest coast 12 days after European and Irish marine authorities first spotted the threat and linked it to the Russians’ breakdown-prone aircraft carrier.
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Reuters - The world faces a final opportunity to agree an adequate global response to climate change at a U.N.-led meeting in Copenhagen in December, the European Union’s environment chief said on Friday.
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AP - Nothing says summer in Iowa like a cloud of dust behind a combine.
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AFP - Indonesian villagers have trapped and killed a fourth endangered Sumatran tiger amid a spate of tiger attacks blamed on illegal logging, according to environmental group WWF.
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AP - A two-year battle over a New Jersey beach town’s plan to buy boardwalk wood from the Amazon rain forest is ending.
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AFP - President Barack Obama Thursday rolled out an audacious 3.55-trillion-dollar budget bristling with economic reforms and spending on healthcare and climate change but warned that “hard choices” loomed as the deficit piles up.
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