New America Media: Environment

Philippine Floods: Deadly Mix for Disaster

INQUIRER.net, News Report, Posted: Dec 18, 2011

The absence of a flood warning, high tide, darkness and a false sense of security proved disastrous for people of northern Mindanao when Tropical Storm “Sendong” came over the weekend.

NYC Public Schools Compete to Become Greenest

New America Media, News Report, Anthony Advincula, Posted: Dec 13, 2011

With public schools accounting for a quarter of New York City's energy use, city officials are tapping students to help it save energy.

Nepal Climate Loans Violate 'Polluter Should Pay' Principle

Inter Press Service, News Report, Sudeshna Sarkar, Posted: Dec 09, 2011

The Nepalese government agreed to a $110 million loan on climate change, but ecologists object that the loan is unnecessary and too costly.

SC Edison, Tribes Fight Over Revenues from Shuttered Coal Power Plant

New America Media, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen, Posted: Dec 06, 2011

Navajo and Hopi leaders petitioned California regulators to distribute proceeds from the ongoing sale of pollution credits to fund tribal-owned renewable energy projects.

Older Chinese Riled by Proposed SF Bag Fee

New America Media, News Report, Peter Schurmann and Summer Chiang, Posted: Dec 05, 2011

A proposal to extend a ban on single use plastic bags to all businesses in San Francisco has some in the Chinese community worried.

Filipina Wins Fur-Free Fashion Competition

Asian Week, News Report, Posted: Nov 28, 2011

The Humane Society of the United States and The Art Institutes recently announced Filipina Johana Zara from The Art Institute of Vancouver as the grand prize winner of the seventh annual Cool vs. Cruel Fashion Design Competition.

After BP Oil Spill, Future Uncertain for Vietnamese Fishers

Hyphen Magazine, News Feature, Nina Kahori Fallenbaum, Posted: Nov 26, 2011

Vietnamese Americans whose labor makes up about one-third of the gulf’s seafood industry, any hard-won stability after Katrina suddenly vanished.

Rising Temperatures, Droughts, Storms on the Rise, Report Finds

InsideClimate News, News Report, Katherine Bagley, Posted: Nov 26, 2011

The world's leading science panel studied the link between man-made warming and wild weather for the first time.

Tar Sands Oil Producers Eye California

New America Media, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen, Posted: Nov 22, 2011

The Obama administration's decision to delay the Canada-Texas Keystone XL pipeline has shifted attention to an alternate Pacific route.

Study Maps Pollution Hotspots in CA's San Joaquin Valley

New America Media, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen, Posted: Nov 16, 2011

Researchers at UC Davis found the populations facing the biggest burden from pollution were concentrated in several urban centers and rural communities.