NewsRack: 'Policy' news in 'Land-National' topic for user flenvcenter

Rachel Smolker: Genetically Engineered Trees and Glowing Synthetic Plants? No Thanks	24.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
For the techno-obsessed, ideas are spawned, scientists get grants, become "experts" and build careers, patents are filed, business ventures launched, and PR firms hired, all before the fundamental questions are raised: Is this environmentally safe, responsible and fair?
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Bushmen face imminent eviction for 'wildlife corridor'	24.5.2013	Survival International
A Bushman community in southern Botswana is facing imminent eviction from their land for a 'wildlife corridor'. © Survival Survival International has received disturbing reports about an imminent eviction of several hundred Bushmen in southern Botswana to make way for a ‘wildlife corridor’. The Bushman community at Ranyane has allegedly been told by the local government that trucks will arrive on Monday to remove them from land they have inhabited for generations. Their houses will be destroyed. The Bushmen’s land is in a proposed ‘wildlife corridor’ which American organization Conservation International, whose Board members include Botswana’s President Khama, has pushed for over a period of many years. The land lies between the Central Kalahari Game Reserve ( CKGR ) and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and is also occupied by some settlers and farms. Survival International has contacted President Khama and Conservation International, ...
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Burlco ban on smoking in recreation areas takes effect May 31	24.5.2013	Philly.com News
Smokers are welcome in fewer outdoor places as bans against lighting up in parks and recreational areas are adopted with increasing frequency in the region.
Fire danger extreme heading into holiday (Cached)	24.5.2013	Durango Herald
The very dry fall last year and a relatively dry 2013 spring has increased the danger of wildfires, the Durango Interagency Fire Dispatch Center reported Thursday.Add the human factor x2013 the increased number of people traveling and recreating on Memorial Day weekend x2013 and the fire-danger index leaps upward, the fire center...
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Guv seals deals with pen (Cached)	24.5.2013	Durango Herald
Sweeping views of the La Plata Mountains and Mesa Verde National Park served as a dramatic backdrop Thursday as Gov. John Hickenlooper signed two bills related to wildfire prevention and response.They were the first of seven bills the governor signed into law throughout a daylong tour of Southwest Colorado.But before he took up...
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On Drones, Obama Seeks to Recast Legacy	24.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: Asia
Thursday's speech represents a major step by President Barack Obama to rebrand his counterterrorism legacy after a first term in office largely defined by an aggressive use of drones and secret "kill lists."
Latest Ricin Suspect Served a Prison Term	24.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: Policy
A man whom prosecutors charged Wednesday with sending a ricin-laced letter to a federal judge had spent 18 months behind bars for a sex crime more than a decade ago.
May 24 Readers' letters: San Jose's fiscal issues and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center's farmers' market	24.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Letters
Letters from Mercury News readers.
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Cupertino-based West Valley Community Services turns 40	24.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: San Jose/Valley
West Valley Community Services is celebrating two milestones this month. The Cupertino-based nonprofit is turning 40 and its Vista Village housing complex is celebrating a decade of operation.
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States Petition NRC For Better Nuclear Waste Rules	24.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Attorneys general in Vermont, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut announced Thursday they are petitioning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a more...
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Tavaci rezoning application filed with Salt Lake County	24.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Mike Gorrell The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 23, 2013 03:57PM MDT Tavaci is back. Developer Terry Diehl’s controversial proposal to transform the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon with a high-density project — which at one time included a hotel, commercial operations and perhaps 300 condominiums — has been revived in Salt Lake County’s planning and development process. Diehl’s company, Cottonwood Estates Development, has filed an application to rezone 47 acres on the northern flank of the canyon mouth from FR.5, which requires minimum half-acre lots, to “FM-10 F... ...
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Let's End a Stinking Era	24.5.2013	Switchboard, from NRDC
Giulia C.S. Good Stefani, Project Attorney, Marine Mammal and Southern California Ecosystems Projects, Santa Monica: Twenty-five years ago, when Gregory Canyon was first proposed as a landfill site, I was in elementary school. A lot has happened in the intervening decades, and I’d like to think that I have evolved with the times: I now...
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FTC Begins Google Display-Ad Probe	24.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: US Business
The Federal Trade Commission has begun to examine complaints by rivals of Google Inc. that the Internet giant abused its power in the market for selling online-graphical and video ads.
Stories of Resettlement and Resistance Along the Lancang River	24.5.2013	International Rivers Sitewide RSS Feed
By: Songqiao Yao Village above Gongguoqiao Reservoir International Rivers Below is a guest blog by Songqiao Yao, China program consultant for International Rivers, describing her March 2013 trip to the Lower Lancang River. You can read about her trip to the Upper Lancang in October 2012 here. “Now we can still sell some vegetables and feed ourselves, but how are we going to live without land?” Those were the words spoken by several women selling vegetables at a morning market, whom I met during a recent trip to the lower Lancang River . The market was at Biao Cun, a township by the river. The township and its nearby villages would all be inundated by the Miaowei Dam reservoir, which China plans to build by 2016. China plans to build and operate ten additional dams on the Lancang River as part of its 12th Five Year Energy Plan . If all are built, more than 30,000 people will be relocated away from their ancestral lands. 10 years of unsettled life Biaocun morning ...
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U.S. to Review Leak-Investigation Guidelines	24.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: Policy
President Obama said the Justice Department is reviewing its guidelines for overseeing leak investigations, in the wake of probes that included the government's seizure of Associated Press phone records.
In La., Families Still Searching For Storm-Scattered Remains	24.5.2013	NPR News
In August, Hurricane Isaac's 12-foot storm surge plowed through cemeteries in Plaquemines Parish, ripping tombs off their foundations and displacing the remains of almost 200 people. About 60 are still unidentified, and at least one is missing.
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Republican Bills Would Obstruct Enforcement of Environmental Laws	24.5.2013	Switchboard, from NRDC
John Walke, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C.: The following was originally published on RegBlog on May 20, 2013. Congressional Republicans have attacked the Obama administration by accusing federal agencies of engaging in collusive litigation practices with public interest groups (pejoratively dubbed “sue-and-settle”). Republicans in both the 112th and...
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AT&T Imposes New Monthly Wireless Fee	24.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: US Business
AT&T has added a new monthly administrative fee of 61 cents to the bills of all of its contract wireless lines as of May 1, a move that could bring in more than a half-billion dollars in annual revenue to the telecom giant.
House Passes Bill to Speed Keystone Approval	24.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: Policy
House Republicans attempted to push through approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, passing a bill that would circumvent the need for a special permit from President Obama.
Don't-miss spots in the Smokies	23.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
The boundary between Tennessee and North Carolina might be one of the loveliest border crossings ever: It's the crest of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hikers on the Appalachian Trail walk the line between the two states for most of the trail's path through the park.
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