Dengue fever breakout in Florida; Challenges for Gulf fishermen; weather and climate change; NRDC sues over delay in regulating dangerous chemicals; Electric vehicles win a vote; Oil pipeline dangers

On ABC’s Good Morning America, Kim Knowlton discussed the painful side effects of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness that has broken out in Florida… In a McClatchy Newspapers article carried by the Miami Herald and others, Rocky Kistner discussed the lingering effects of the oil disaster, and the challenges that lie ahead for Gulf fishermen… In a New York Times article Adrianna Quintero discussed the common tendency to misattribute individual weather events to climate change… Reuters reported that NRDC has filed a lawsuit against the FDA over its failure to take action regarding the dangers of anti-microbial soaps…

Simon Mui spoke to San Francisco’s NPR affiliate KQED about the future of electric vehicles; later that day, the show was cited by the California Public Utilities Commission when they voted in favor of electric vehicles … Roland Hwang stressed that all types of new technologies need to be developed in order to replace oil in the transportation industry in the San Francisco Chronicle… Andrew Wetzler explained to the Christian Science Monitor that the Midwest is also in danger of oil spills due to a network of underground pipelines that transport crude oil…