USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.
Southwestern Monsoon brings nearly double normal rain
Standing water can bring mosquitoes
B. POOLE Published: 07.31.2008
It has been a wet, blustery monsoon, and that’s just the way a University of Arizona researcher called it in June.
On June 4 – weeks before the rains came – atmospheric sciences professor Christopher Castro called for an early start to the rainy season with more expected than average in June and July.
Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7532435.stm
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Published on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 by The Guardian/UK
EPA Silences Employees On Climate Change by Elana Schor
WASHINGTON – Amid intensifying scrutiny of its failure to act on climate change, the US environmental protection agency (EPA) has ordered employees not to talk to internal auditors, Congress or the media, according to a leaked email released yesterday by green campaigners.
The EPA has refused repeated requests from Congress to explain its December denial of California’s request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions – a move that overruled the agency’s own career scientists.
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July 28, 2008 5:59 PM
CONTACT: The Wilderness Society
Christopher Lancette, TWS communications director
(202) 429-2692;
chris_lancette@tws.org
Bush Does Texas Two-Step to trample Colorado’s Roadless Forests
Two public meetings in D.C. part of dance to ruin pristine lands
WASHINGTON – July 28 – The Bush administration is spearheading two separate meetings here this week that will examine plans for the proposed changes to the way roadless forests are managed in Colorado. The meetings are in response to the administration’s newly proposed rule change (published July 25 in the federal register) that would open the land to logging and ski resort expansions. The change could also allow 97 new oil and gas leases on 87,000 acres to be developed on national forests in Colorado that are currently protected from drilling by federal rule.