"L.A. Confidential: Seeking Reasons for Autism's Rise"
"Why is a child born in northwest Los Angeles four times as likely to be diagnosed with autism as a child born elsewhere in California?"
Source: Wall St. Journal, 02/02/2010
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Obama's Budget Impacts Environment in Many Ways
President Obama's $3.8 trillion fiscal 2011 budget proposal, released Feb. 1, funds private nuclear plants, Great Lakes and Chesapeake cleanup, and acquisition of land for conservation. It cuts Yucca Mountain, fossil subsidies, and EPA. It still hopes to get revenue from cap-and-trade ... and affects the environment in myriad other ways.
Source: Wash Post, 02/02/2010
"Obama To Propose Tripling Of Nuclear Loan Guarantees"
"The Obama administration is planning to propose tripling a program that provides loan guarantees to construct nuclear reactors, an administration official said Friday, aiming to reach out to Republican lawmakers in an effort to break a logjam over energy policy."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 02/01/2010
Letter to the Editor: Border Coverage Lacked Impact of Immigration
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"Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples"
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"Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age"
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An Expansive Investigation's Key Lesson: Think BIG
SEJournal has the "Inside Story" on "The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America's Schools," a USA Today series by Blake Morrison and Brad Heath that won SEJ's 2009 Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting.
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"Final NO2 Rule Cuts Back on Roadside Monitors"
"U.S. EPA's final air quality standard for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) entails new requirements for measuring peak exposures near roads, but it would monitor fewer roadside locations than the agency's original proposal."
Source: Greenwire, 01/29/2010
"Profile: Environmental Justice Comes Naturally to New EPA Region 9 Administrator"
"Jared Blumenfeld, the newly appointed director of the U.S. EPA's Pacific Southwest region, Region 9, is pledging to make life difficult for polluters, especially those who despoil the environment in underserved and vulnerable communities."
Source: ENS, 01/29/2010
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