This week’s environmental stories in the news

1. James Jay Lee takes hostages at the Discovery Channel and is subsequently shot and killed by police. (Time.com report)

According to the Washington Post, “Lee, 43, held three men hostage — a security guard and two other Discovery employees — and forced them to lie face down on the floor, Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said. Lee had a handgun and what Manger described as a live bomb strapped to him…Lee was killed at 4:48 p.m., nearly four hours after he stalked into the building…An environmental militant, Lee held a grudge [...]