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Constitution Wins After Court Imposes Prior Restraint on Pipeline Safety Info [1]

As a nationwide newspaper chain probed safety threats posed to the public by gas pipelines, an Alabama court imposed prior restraint on the Montgomery Advertiser, to prevent it from publishing the Alabama Gas Corporation's safety plan, citing homeland security and trade secrets. Now a judge has ruled that the court erred in granting a temporary restraining order.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Journalism & Media [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [7]
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National (U.S.) [8]
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A Crack is a Crack: Making the Complex Simple [11]

"Inside Story" editor Beth Daley interviews Tampa (FL) Bay Times' Ivan Penn about his reporting on nuclear power, including the closing of the Crystal River Nuclear Plant, problems with cooling tubes at another facility and the risk to ratepayers for new nuclear power generation in Florida. Photo: Cooling towers at Crystal River nuclear plant in Florida. © Maurice Rivenbark, Tampa Bay Times.

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Inside Story [12]
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Journalism & Media [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [13]
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Judge Orders Exxon To Produce Records on Leaky Arkansas Pipeline [14]

ExxonMobil lost a bid to keep federal regulators and prosecutors from getting records which might show criminal negligence in its operation of the pipeline that spilled oil into the Arkansas community of Mayflower in March 2013. The judge also threw out Exxon's motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the company.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
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Special Edition TipSheet: Coastal Risk and Resilience in the Gulf Region [15]

From 1970 until 2010, 34.8 million more people decided to move towards the coast of the United States and that population is expected to grow just as sea-level rise and climate change continue to increase the risk of living there. Amy Wold, a reporter with The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, covers change and adaptation; locks and floodgates; levees and marshes; communities at risk; insurance issues; and lessons learned. Photo (click to enlarge [16]): In 2012, Wold took this shot of the rapidly disappearing Cat Island in Barataria Basin in south Louisiana. She returned there in 2014 to find barely any land left above water. © Amy Wold, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate.

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TipSheet [17]
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Climate Change [18]
Disasters [3]
People & Population [7]
Planning & Growth [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
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National (U.S.) [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
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Special Edition TipSheet: Gulf Coast Restoration [21]

Amy Wold, a reporter with The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, writes about coastal challenges facing the state, including coastal loss, restoration, economics, diversion, the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP settlements and the RESTORE Act, fisheries impacts — and why protecting and stabilizing Louisiana’s coastline is not just a local issue, but a national one. Image: Heavy machinery moves around sediment that has been piped in from the Mississippi River at a coastal restoration project in Plaquemines Parish in November 2013. © Amy Wold, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate.

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TipSheet [17]
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Energy & Fuel [4]
Fish & Fisheries [22]
Planning & Growth [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
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National (U.S.) [8]
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PHMSA Won't Disclose Restart Plan for Arkansas Pegasus Pipeline [23]

Exxon had said it was planning to restart the aging pipeline — which was given to seam ruptures — by the end of March. But the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has so far refused requests to make public the restart plan. Elizabeth Douglass wrote about PHMSA's secrecy in InsideClimate News. Photo: The Pegasus pipeline, exposed and suspended in Houston County, 7 miles NW of Crockett, TX, in May 2013. Credit: Safe Community Alliance.

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Kentucky Legislature Weighs "Ag-Gag" Bill [25]

Kentucky is the latest state to consider legislation criminalizing undercover photography of animal abuse in farm operations, which often ends up in the news. But Democratic Rep. Joni Jenkins (pictured), who sponsored the measure to which the Senate attached the Ag-Gag language, says she won't call it up in the House.

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Activism [26]
Agriculture [27]
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"For God, Country & Coca-Cola" [29]

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BookShelf [30]
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Chemicals [31]
Consumer [32]
Economy & Business [33]
Forests [34]
Pollution [35]
Water & Oceans [20]
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"State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love" [36]

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BookShelf [30]
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People & Population [7]
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Adopting Climate Adaptation Messages [37]

Special Report: Part Four

By LEE AHERN

Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [18]
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Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [38]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
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Special Report: Part Four

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