Publication Items

"Japan Meltdown: Could It Happen Here?" [1]

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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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Disasters [5]
Region:
Asia [6]
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Public [7]
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Oil Fracking Poses Similar Concerns As Gas Fracking [8]

EPA is conducting a study of fracking, no matter where it is used (e.g., gas shale, oil shale, coalbed methane, tight sands). Public comment is being allowed as the agency's Science Advisory Board meets March 7-8, 2011, to review the draft study plan. Initial study and research results are possible by the end of 2012, and a report may be published some time in 2014.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [9]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Health [10]
Pollution [11]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Proposed Rule for Power Plant Toxics Due March 16 [12]

The consent decree that established the March 16 release date also mandates that a final rule be published by Nov. 16, 2011 (nine years later than the deadline dictated by the Clean Air Act). Here are several tools you can use to get a handle on the power plants and their emissions in your audience area prior to release of the rule.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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First of Many Potential Offshore Wind Power Sites Identified [14]

After participating in an 8-year struggle to get offshore wind development approved in Massachusetts waters, federal officials are pushing for expedited reviews and approvals in a rapidly growing number of other US coastal areas.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [15]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Enviros Claim "Secret Plan" To Use Weapons Plutonium in Reactors [16]

The environmental group Friends of the Earth got the information that an electric utility wants to use surplus weapons plutonium in a commercial power reactor through a Freedom of Information Act request to the Energy Department.
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WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Military [18]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Meetings Set for Getting Public Feedback on Solar Sites [19]

The federal government has released its draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for identifying and evaluating the best areas on public lands for building utility-scale solar plants. A 90-day public comment period ends March 17, 2011, preceded by 14 meetings in 6 Western states and Washington, D.C.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [21]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
California [23]
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Public [7]
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House GOP Staff Meet with Energy Lobbyists Behind Closed Doors [24]

Politico broke the story of a January 18, 2011, meeting between House and Senate GOP aides and energy industry lobbyists to map out strategy for handcuffing President Obama and EPA on climate regulations.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [13]
Government [25]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Climate Change [26]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Feds Publish Secret Oil Spill Calculator [27]

Now that you have long since published your story about the disappearance of BP's oil from the Gulf, you may want to check the math that story was based on using newly released technical information.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [15]
Government [25]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Disasters [5]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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A Smear Campaign Against Jane Mayer After Koch Exposé? [28]

The media blog Gawker thinks it has uncovered a campaign to discredit the New Yorker writer after her August 2010 story on billionaires Charles and David H. Koch, who have secretly funded attacks on government regulations and bankrolled efforts to discredit settled climate science.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [29]
Climate Change [26]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [30]
Science [31]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Election and Oil and Gas Drilling May Shape Sage-Grouse Story [32]

The timing of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to propose listing of the greater sage-grouse as a threatened or endangered species is coinciding with the presidential election and the rapid expansion of the influential oil and gas industry.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [33]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Wildlife [34]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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