The Daily Digest
News – March 16, 2010
TOP STORIES
Examiner.com According to the American City Business Journals, the Portland metro area (which includes Vancouver, Washington) is now ranked the #1 green city in the United States.
Environmental Education
Muscatine Journal Students part of AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps program in Louisa County, Iowa, spend their days hiking through mud, learning how to defend themselves from wildfires and how to control a prairie burn.
On the Go Online An Illinois environmental education group challenges high school students to design a model building incorporating strategies from the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program to both reduce environmental impact.
Green Jobs
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The paradigm that there was a choice between protecting the environment or protecting jobs has shifted to one that argues protecting the planet can create good jobs.
Climate Change
Reuters Levels of the main greenhouse gas in the atmosphere have risen to new highs in 2010 despite an economic slowdown in many nations that braked industrial output, data showed on Monday.
Christian Science Monitor Politicians and the public question global climate change evidence, so scientists look to Hollywood and websites for a new voice.
Associated Press Talks on a new global climate change accord, bogged down for years in contested negotiations among nearly 200 countries, will increasingly move outside the sluggish U.N. framework and focus on a streamlined group of countries, special U.N. envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland said Tuesday.
Health and Environment
Wilmington News Journal New tests show that toxic pollution from an abandoned chemical plant near Delaware City is far worse than previously believed, posing even greater future risks to drinking water in the region.
Charleston Gazette Water quality downstream from surface coal-mining operations in West Virginia and Kentucky greatly exceeds recommended toxicity limits, according to previously unreleased sampling data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Louisville Courier-Journal A survey indicates widespread fishing and fish consumption – despite various health warnings from mercury and other pollutants. About half of those surveyed said they were not aware of the warnings.
