1. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (via Discovery.com), Americans throw away 1.35 billion pounds of trash every day. (deals.ebay.com)
  2. Oregon Bans Pesticides Following Major Bee Deaths – Update (guardianlv.com)
  3. Monsanto is losing the press as pests become resistant to GMO crops and sales of pesticides surge(motherjones.com)
  4. Well off Louisiana coast leaking natural gas, Coast Guard says (usnews.nbcnews.com)
  5. Watching for a radioactive forest fire. For 27 years, forests around Chernobyl have been absorbing radioactive elements. A fire would send them skyward again - a growing concern as summers grow longer, hotter and drier (abc.net.au)
  6. State Dept Admits It Doesn't Know Keystone Pipeline's Exact Route - It's decision to hand over control to the oil industry to evaluate its own environmental performance on the proposed tar sands pipeline has led to a colossal oversight. (commondreams.org)
  7. You can’t deny global warming after seeing this graph (washingtonpost.com)
  8. New Report Shows Remarkable 'Climate Disconnect' In House GOP Voting Record. (thinkprogress.org)
  9. Climate disconnect: Republicans let their districts fry.The report finds that Republican members representing the districts most affected by record high temperatures cast anti-climate votes 96% of the time in the 112th Congress. (dailykos.com)
  10. Former Fukushima Daiichi chief dies of cancer (nhk.or.jp)