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- Journalists around the US who cover water quality, as well as those who cover coal mining and/or Appalachia, will benefit from an analytical NYT series and databases, combined with a Sept. 11 EPA announcement about extended NPDES permit reviews.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:
Mercury Found in All Sampled Fish in U.S. Streams
USGS researchers have found that it may be impossible for people eating fish caught in US waters to avoid eating mercury-contaminated fish.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Toolbox: Website Offers Profusion of Government Science Links
In one handy spot, you'll find hundreds of rarely visited Web pages published by a vast variety of federal offices and programs doing science on environmental and other topics.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:State, Local Agencies Join Push To Clean Up Air Pollution at Ports
A variety of initiatives aimed at reducing shipping-related emissions are in the works.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:EPA's Jackson Calls for More Transparency on Water Quality, Enforcement
Jackson ordered staff to make existing information more accessible and understandable to the public, including posting on the Web state performance reports under the Clean Water Act.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Bills Seek Disclosure of "Fracking" Chemicals That May Threaten Drinking Wells
Proposed legislation would repeal a provision allowing secrecy over chemicals injected underground during high-tech gas drilling — such as benzene and toluene, which are known to be toxic.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Beach Nourishment: Supreme Court To Decide Who Owns the New Sand
When governments or communities pay to replenish beaches along privately owned beachfront property — or create new beaches by trucking in sand — what does that mean for the landowners' waterfront rights and property value?SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Visibility:"Crime Scene Cleanup" in Kelly AFB Toxics Case
New evidence indicates the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry fails to protect communities from dangers such as the now-disappearing plumes of toxic groundwater carrying cancer-causing chemicals far beyond the Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio, TX.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Book Shelf, Book 1 - Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People And The Environment
Exploring the legacy of dams and human delusions of grandeur
DEEP WATER: THE EPIC STRUGGLE OVER DAMS, DISPLACED PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT Jacques Leslie
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, $15.75Reviewed by NANCY BAZILCHUK
A dam may not be forever, even if constructions like the Hoover Dam are expected to survive for a thousand years. A dam's environmental and social impacts, though, are enormous, extensive and essentially irreversible.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:The Case Against Fluoride Mounts
By BETTE HILEMAN
Until very recently, the mere mention that fluoridated water might cause adverse health effects was likely to be met with deep skepticism, even derision. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention still calls water fluoridation the greatest health triumph of the past 50 years.
But those attitudes are beginning to change.
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