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"Bee Deaths Set Apiculture Congress Abuzz"

"Montpellier, France -- Pesticides, viruses, industrialised farming, fungus... what on Earth is killing our bees? That's the big question being asked at Apimondia, the 41st world apiculture congress, where 10,000 beekeepers, entomologists and other actors in the honey business are gathered in this southern French city until Sunday."

Source: AFP, 09/18/2009

"Big Coal Carriers Navigate a Risky Climate Track"

"Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad this summer started to walk away from its rail expansion project in the Powder River Basin, the largest source of coal in the country, citing the flagging U.S. economy and regulatory uncertainty."

Source: NYTimes, 09/18/2009

"US Battles for Credibility on Climate Change"

"With Congress moving slowly on a measure to curb industrial greenhouse gas emissions, the United States may find itself with little sway at the coming international conference to construct a new pact aimed at easing global warming."

Source: AP, 09/18/2009

"World's Big Polluters Kick off Climate Talks in Washington"

"Representatives of the world's 17 biggest carbon polluters kicked off a week of high-stakes talks on climate change Thursday with a discussion at the US State Department."

Source: ENS, 09/18/2009

"Obama Seeks National Oversight of Waters"

"The Obama administration called Thursday for a comprehensive national system for regulating the use of federal waters along the nation’s marine and Great Lakes shores, now administered by a hodgepodge of federal, state or other agencies with often-conflicting goals."

Source: NYTimes, 09/18/2009

"Government Rarely Intervenes as Calif. Mercury Mines Pollute Water, Fish"

"Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people."

Source: AP, 09/18/2009

"Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells"

"Runoff from all but the largest farms is essentially unregulated by many of the federal laws intended to prevent pollution and protect drinking water sources."

Source: NYTimes, 09/18/2009

"Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton Is Focus of Corruption Probe"

"The Justice Department investigation centers on a 2006 decision to award oil shale leases in Colorado to a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary. Months later, the oil giant hired Norton as a legal counsel."

Source: LA Times, 09/18/2009

Plight of the Bumblebee

In recent years, the media has paid a great deal of attention to the loss of European honeybees, the so-called Colony Collapse Disorder. Less well known, but equally troublesome, is the disappearance of bumblebees. As Adam Federman reports in the Autumn edition of Earth Island Journal, bumblebees pollinate about 15 percent of our food crops (valued at $3 billion) and occupy a critical role as native pollinators. Many species are in sharp decline or appear to have gone extinct.

Source: Earth Island Journal, 09/19/2009

Coal and Water – Do They Mix?

Journalists around the US who cover water quality, as well as those who cover coal mining and/or Appalachia, will benefit from an analytical NYT series and databases, combined with a Sept. 11 EPA announcement about extended NPDES permit reviews.

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