In Case You Missed It - Week of February 19-25

• The third Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival will run through March 2, 2012 and plans to feature 25 movies relevant to contemporary environmental challenges. 
• High Court of England and Wales treats emissions allowances as property. 
• NY Court finds that local government’s effort to prohibit hydraulic fracturing activities through zoning is authorized, despite preemptive language in the state’s Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Law. 
• Minnesota Public Utilities Commission rejects wildlife protection plan for wind farm project. 
• A recent gas fire at a Chevron Nigeria-operated drilling rig reinvigorates debate over the need to address the impacts of oil and gas production in the country. 
• Settlement resolves mining delay for Mosaic’s 7,000 acre South Fort Meade Extension phosphate strip mining operation in Hardee County, Florida. 
• Environmental and Alaska Native groups challenge air permit issued for Arctic operations of the Shell drilling ship Noble Discoverer.