RECOMMENDED READING

Climate Change Could Sting Asthma, Allergy Sufferers

"Global warming is making pollen seasons last longer, creating more ozone in the air, and even expanding the areas where insects flourish, putting more people with bee allergies at greater risk, experts say."  [USA Today]

Obama Admin Proposes Fishery Cap-and-Trade Plan

"The Obama administration is proposing significant new spending on a proposed cap-and-trade regulatory scheme for fisheries -- a major overhaul in fishery management and a bid to halt the decline of wild fish stocks." [Greenwire - New York Times]

EPA Chief Calls for Environmental Justice

"The federal Environmental Protection Agency needs to address the systemic environmental issues facing America's poor, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a speech yesterday at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. 'I see it as part of my essential mission to show all Americans that the Environmental Protection Agency works for them,' said Jackson, the first African-American head of the EPA."  [Times of Trenton]

LISTENING PLEASURE

Tracking Polar Bears, An Environmental Barometer

"The threatened polar bear has become an icon for the potentially devastating effects of global warming. The animal depends on sea ice for its survival, and this ice is disappearing, no more so than in the Chukchi Sea — the remote stretch of ocean between Alaska and Russia." [Morning Edition - NPR]

COMMENTARY

‘Kill Bill’ Climate Strategy Plays Like Old Movie: Eric Pooley 

"When it comes to global warming legislation, John Engler of the National Association of Manufacturers and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have a “Kill Bill” strategy. Like Uma Thurman snuffing out the title character in Tarantino’s kung fu epic, they want to kill the climate bill, sponsored by Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, that would create a cap-and-trade system that sets a mandatory, declining limit on carbon emissions and lets industry buy and sell pollution permits."  [Bloomberg]