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"Prosecutors: Duke Energy Could Have Avoided Dan River Spill" [1]

"As Duke Energy pleaded guilty Thursday in a North Carolina courtroom to nine criminal violations of the federal Clean Water Act, federal prosecutors recounted examples where time and again the nation's largest electricity company failed to prevent its illegal pollution."

Source: AP [2], 05/15/2015

"More Protests Planned After Giant Oil Rig Muscles In" [3]

"Paddle-powered activists hit the waters of Elliott Bay in kayaks Thursday to throw an 'unwelcome party' for a massive Shell drilling rig as it reached the Port of Seattle."

Source: Seattle Times [4], 05/15/2015

SEJ's 25th Annual Conference Agenda — Friday [5]

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Climate/Weather Plenary
Concurrent Sessions
Network Lunch
Keynote Debate
Dinner & Movies

12 Years Later, a Mystery of Chemical Exposure in Iraq Clears Slightly [7]

"The toxic vapors acted quickly against the Second Platoon of the 811th Ordnance Company, whose soldiers were moving abandoned barrels out of an Iraqi Republican Guard warehouse in 2003. The building, one soldier said, was littered with dead birds."

Source: NY Times [8], 05/14/2015

SEJ's 25th Annual Conference Agenda — Saturday [9]

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Concurrent Sessions
Energy Futures Plenary
Mini-Tours
Anniversary Party

"Judge: Freedom Industries Proposal Underfunds Toxic Cleanup" [10]

A federal judge Wednesday rejected Freedom Industries' bankruptcy proposal and ordered the company to clean up the site where its January 2014 chemical spill contaminated Charleston, W.V., drinking water.

Source: Charleston Gazette [11], 05/14/2015

"Oil Rig Coming To Seattle Despite Port Vote To Delay" [12]

"Shell Oil says its offshore oil rigs will arrive shortly on Seattle’s waterfront to prepare for drilling in Alaska, despite a Port of Seattle resolution Tuesday asking it to delay while the Port challenges a city ruling aimed at keeping the rigs out."

Source: Seattle Times [13], 05/14/2015

"Senate GOP Launches Attack On EPA Climate Rules" [14]

"Senate Republicans introduced a bill Wednesday that would overturn the Obama administration’s landmark climate regulations for power plants and make it nearly impossible to rewrite them."

Source: The Hill [15], 05/14/2015

Resistance to Pipeline Bigger than Keystone Thwarts Enbridge in Wisc. [16]

""Pipeline giant Enbridge, Inc., is in a standoff with a Wisconsin zoning committee over the company's plans to vastly increase the amount of tar sands oil pumped through one of its lines."

Source: InsideClimate News [17], 05/14/2015

Tory Pledge To End Wind Subsidies Risks Green Economy: Industry Leaders [18]

"Conservatives’ manifesto promise to halt wind subsidies is at odds with their emissions goals and threatens green energy jobs and new projects, says renewable industry".

Source: Guardian [19], 05/14/2015

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