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Mines in 21 States Outed for Habitual Safety Violations [1]

The 48 mines are also linked by the fact that most of their owners have been legally delaying action on the violations through appeals of the citations. The Mine Safety and Health Administration is faced with a backlog of approximately 16,000 appeals.
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TipSheet [2]
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Disasters [3]
Natural Resources [4]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [5]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [6]
Northwest (OR WA) [7]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [11]
California [12]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [13]
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Public [14]
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'Letting the Cards Talk' [15]

Seasoned journalist Susan Feathers plays the hand of a grand jury report — 10 years later.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [17]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
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Public [14]
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Supreme Court Property Rights Case Has Environmental Implications [20]

The Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Dec. 2, 2009. The case, which started with legal action in 2004, involves a dispute over restoration of a stretch of Florida panhandle beaches damaged by storms.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Water & Oceans [19]
People & Population [23]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
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Public [14]
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TVA IG Says Agency Let Lawyers Stifle $3 Million Study on Coal-Ash Spill Causes [24]

An investigation by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee indicates the Tennessee Valley Authority opted not to make changes that could have prevented the massive December 2008 spill.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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The Devastation Ran Clear Down to Plaquemines [27]

By Amy Wold

Two days after Hurricane Katrina, my editor called me over to his desk and pointed to a place on the map below New Orleans. He said, "Try to get somewhere in this area."

At the time there were four adults, two dogs and two children (some of whom were New Orleans evacuees) staying in my onebedroom home so getting "somewhere in this area" sounded like a really good idea.
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [3]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
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Public [14]
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Lake Charles Newspaper Staff Persists Against Rita's Fury [28]

By JEREMY HARPER
When I went to sleep Wednesday, Sept. 21, Hurricane Rita was threatening the Texas coast, promising to pester Louisiana with no more than a quick bout of tropical storm conditions. I was prepared to ride out the fringe of the storm in either my apartment on the second floor of a sturdy historic building in downtown Lake Charles, La., a city of 75,000 about 40 miles inland of the Gulf of Mexico, or in the newsroom of the American Press, the city's daily newspaper where I have worked for four years as a reporter.
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Disasters [3]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
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Public [14]
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Coal-Waste Impoundment Database Offers Journalists a Tool [29]

A cooperative effort of federal and state agencies, coal companies, and environmental groups, the database lists coal-waste impoundments in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [26]
Pollution [18]
Waste [30]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
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Public [14]
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Beach Nourishment: Supreme Court To Decide Who Owns the New Sand [31]

When governments or communities pay to replenish beaches along privately owned beachfront property — or create new beaches by trucking in sand — what does that mean for the landowners' waterfront rights and property value?
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Water & Oceans [19]
Military [32]
People & Population [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [33]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
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Public [14]
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Two Agencies Hide Neglect of Coal-Dam Safety with Secrecy [34]

US EPA and Army Corps of Engineers say they "cannot make the list of 'high hazard' coal ash impoundment sites public," even though risk to communities exists -- like the December 2008 pond failure at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [35]
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Government [36]
Region:
National (U.S.) [33]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
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Public [14]
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Troubling Predictions Come True For Reporter And Friends [37]

By KATINA GAUDET
"We have a different fear of hurricanes."

My friend Yasmin was trying to rationalize her fearlessness in the face of an imposing Hurricane Katrina, expected to make landfall near New Orleans the next day, from her first-floor Uptown apartment.

But I was having difficulty, although safe in a hotel room near Memphis. I was frantic, yelling into the phone at Yasmin, "You cannot stay there."
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [3]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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