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"Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America" [1]

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Disasters [3]
Economy & Business [4]
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EPA Releases Coal Ash Pond Survey in Database Form [8]

The spreadsheet covers 676 coal combustion waste impoundments at 240 facilities — making it much easier to cover the issue. After assessing many ponds, EPA rated at least 50 of the ponds as having high hazard potential.
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WatchDog TipSheet [9]
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Energy & Fuel [5]
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NRC Publishes List of FOIA Requests Related to Japan Nuke Meltdown [10]

By publishing the list promptly, NRC lived up to the "reading room" provisions of FOIA — which require agencies to actively publish information likely to be the subject of multiple FOIA requests. As a reporter, see what your competitors are doing. As a FOIA requester, you may learn a lot about how to write a FOIA letter that is realistic yet effective.
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WatchDog TipSheet [9]
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Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Energy & Fuel [5]
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Asia [12]
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Public [7]
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Ocean Issues Highlighted at 'Blue Vision' Summit May 20-23 in DC [13]

The event will cover everything from the Gulf of Mexico's struggle to recover from the BP oil spill to protection of over-exploited commercial fish stocks … to ocean acidification, marine protected areas, offshore energy, and coastal ecosystem restoration.
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TipSheet [14]
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Energy & Fuel [5]
Disasters [3]
Fish & Fisheries [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [17]
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NOAA Provides Quick Access to Tornado Information [18]

Get details on breaking and recent developments, along with big-picture perspective, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's tornado website.
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Science [19]
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BP Blowout Anniversary: "What's Under Elmer's Island?" [20]

Denial of news media access to Gulf beaches has been an issue since the Deepwater Horizon disaster. There's tussling over access to (and interpretation of) scientific information on possible impacts of the spill on the Gulf ecosystem. And The Guardian obtained >30,000 pages of BP in-house memos FOIA'd by Greenpeace, which suggest BP was working hard to influence the results of the research it was paying for.
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WatchDog TipSheet [9]
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Water & Oceans [16]
Science [19]
Pollution [21]
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BP Still Keeps Media from Covering Damage on Gulf Coast [22]

The intrepid Mac McClelland, who covered the spill and secrecy at its peak for Mother Jones, went back to see if anything had changed. But BP's cops tried to stop her.
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Water & Oceans [16]
Energy & Fuel [5]
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Floods Threaten Midwest and Elsewhere As Thaw Progresses [23]

Get your flood resources here, from the National Weather Service's National Hydrologic Assessment, FEMA's "Flood Hazard" webpage and Flood Insurance Rate Maps, to the National Flood Insurance Program's "Media Resources" site, NOAA's "Floods Monitor", USGS' "WaterWatch," advice from the CDC, and more.
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Japan Nuclear Crisis: Non-Disclosure Hides Multitude of Sins [24]

As a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant continues to spew radiation into the environment, journalists and people across the world are getting an unwelcome lesson in how secrecy can threaten people's health and safety. A New York Times team finally on March 16 did the story on the withholding of information. Read their coverage, as well as others.
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WatchDog TipSheet [9]
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Pollution [21]
Energy & Fuel [5]
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Asia [12]
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"Japan Meltdown: Could It Happen Here?" [25]

The aging fleet of US nuclear power reactors have some technological similarities to the reactors failing in Japan. Could similar loss-of-cooling events happen at some US reactors — whether caused by earthquake, tsunami, terrorist attack, electrical outage, flooding, equipment failure, or some other problem?
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People & Population [26]
Energy & Fuel [5]
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Asia [12]
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