Children of a Green Movement
Posted January 28, 2009 in The Media and the Environment
On CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Michael Oko talks about the roots of the growing green youth movement [video below]... In a blog tracking the events and people in Davos, Switzerland the Wall Street Journal interviews Frances Beinecke about marketing the green movement and cap-and-trade during the recession... In an Associated Press article picked up in outlets like Forbes.com, Larry Levine lauds the decision by a US District Court judge to hold GE responsible for cleaning up a superfund site polluted with PCBs from GE factories... CNN.com drew quotes from David Hawkins' blog entry regarding Obama's recent actions on fuel efficiency and global warming...
In the Los Angeles Times David Pettit draws attention to the concerning economic and health effects of building a proposed truck expressway near a low-income residential neighborhood in California; the expressway is projected to raise neighborhood cancer risks... Sarah Janssen warns that the hormone disrupting chemical BPA should be removed from food packaging in Agence France Presse, Dow Jones' newswire of choice... Shannon Fisk criticizes Ohio EPA in the Columbus Dispatch for empowering a resurgent Ohio coal industry by issuing lax pollution permits despite federal EPA requests.
