"EPA Says It Could Block Mountaintop Coal Permits"
EPA, in a surprise move, is asserting its Clean Water Act authority over mountaintop removal mining permits.
Source: Reuters, 03/25/2009
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV)
Coal Remining: One Way to Clean Up Acid Drainage?
Acid mine drainage from abandoned coal mines is the biggest water-quality problem in the Appalachian states.
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It's Hurricane Prime-Time in Gulf and Atlantic States
The next 6 weeks or so will see the peak of the hurricane season along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
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Top 10 Endangered Southern Areas
The Southern Environmental Law Center's top 10 places in America's South that face "immediate, potentially irreparable threats in 2009" represent a cross-section of the major environmental issues facing these states.
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PENNSYLVANIA FORBIDS LABELING OF MILK PRODUCED WITHOUT ARTIFICIAL HORMONES
Consumers who want to choose milk produced without the use of artificial hormones are out of luck - if they live in Pennsylvania. That is not a choice the state will allow them.
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Pennsylvania Reverses Ban On "Hormone-Free" Milk Labeling
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) overruled a ban by the state's Department of Agriculture on the labelling of milk as "hormone free."
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New Smithsonian Head Pleads To Keep FOIA Exemption
The Smithsonian Institution, a federal agency with many environment-related research and public education activities, opposes a Congressional move that would subject it to the same open-records law that applies to other executive branch agencies.
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Baltimore, MD 2002
The 12th annual conference, October 9-13, included a searching examination of the environment beat's "blind spots", and a spirited exchange between two key members of Congress and President George W. Bush's top environmental advisor about politics and policy in the post-9/11 era. Among the more than 30 session topics: Rachel Carson's legacy, ten years after Rio, cancer clusters, "Frankenfish" and an insider's look at the "big ten" environmental groups.
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Smithsonian Adopts FOIA-Like Policies
The Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents held its first public meeting in 162 years November 17, 2008. This marks a move away from existing policies that have made the institution's meetings and records less open to public scrutiny than other federal entities.
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Pittsburgh, PA 2004
SEJ's 14th annual conference, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, took place October 20-24.
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