Oil and gas companies are being blamed for the tremendous erosion of Louisiana's coastal wetlands , and called on to pay for it. (Best of New Orleans).
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/current/cover_story.php
*On the current and predicted effects of sea-level rise in coastal Egypt (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89660898
A look at five of Maine's toxin-contaminated sites and the ongoing efforts to clean them up (Bangor News)
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=163249&zoneid=500
More arguing over possibilities for diverting water from Northern California to Southern California, and its effects on endangered fish (Los Angeles Times).
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-salmon17apr17,1,1938847.story
After two environmental groups planned to sue the US Forest Service over flaws in this year's fire management plans for the Southwest, the Service apparently dropped the plans altogether (Earthjustice).
http://www.earthjustice.org/news/press/2008/forest-service-scraps-fire-planning-in-southwest.html
New York Times
*Prolonged drought in grain-producing nations, probably worsened by climate change, is a factor in the current high-price-induced famines around the world: Australian rice as a case study.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/business/worldbusiness/17warm.html?pagewanted=1&ref=science
Contrary to some predictions voiced in articles last week, rising food prices are reducing investments--by buyers and farmers--in organic food.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/business/18organic.html?_r=1&ref=dining&oref=slogin
Bush's muchly-criticized "new plan" for dealing with climate change was outlined in a recent speech.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/washington/17bush.html?ref=science
CORRECTION: I wrote here last term that the EPA had vetoed the big Yazoo wetland pumping project in Mississippi. I believe that they haven't actually finalized that veto, but it's proposed and expected.
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