"The oil industry is launching a multimedia advertising campaign tomorrow in opposition to the Obama administration’s attempt to restrict allowable concentrations of ozone pollution."
"The risk of infection from eating food tainted with a common type of salmonella or a dangerous strain of E. coli fell significantly in 2014, according to a report published Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
"Seven environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging safety rules issued earlier this month for trains carrying oil, arguing the regulations are too weak to protect the public."
"President Barack Obama on Thursday called for greater federal spending on infrastructure in the wake of the deadly Amtrak crash that killed eight people."
"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."
"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."
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Climate/Weather Plenary
Concurrent Sessions
Network Lunch
Keynote Debate
Dinner & Movies
"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."
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Concurrent Sessions
Energy Futures Plenary
Mini-Tours
Anniversary Party
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.
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/oil-lobby-launches-ads-against-epa-ozone-rule
[2] http://thehill.com/policy/finance/242099-oil-lobby-launches-ads-against-epa-ozone-rule
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/threat-food-borne-illnesses-shifts-new-pathogens-cdc-report
[4] http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-foodborne-illness-outbreaks-2014-20150514-story.html#navtype=outfit
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-green-groups-sue-challenge-oil-train-safety-rules
[6] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/14/us-usa-rail-lawsuit-idUSKBN0NZ2BX20150514
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama-calls-greater-infrastructure-spending-wake-amtrak-crash
[8] http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/14/politics/amtrak-crash-funding-debate/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/prosecutors-duke-energy-could-have-avoided-dan-river-spill
[10] http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/duke-pleads-guilty-federal-court-coal-ash-crimes-31041744
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/more-protests-planned-after-giant-oil-rig-muscles
[12] http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/protesters-launching-kayaks-to-unwelcome-oil-rig-to-seattle/
[13] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/sej-annual-conferences/AC2015-agenda-friday
[14] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/sej-annual-conferences/AC2015-main
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/12-years-later-mystery-chemical-exposure-iraq-clears-slightly
[16] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/world/middleeast/12-years-later-a-mystery-of-chemical-exposure-in-iraq-clears-slightly.html
[17] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/sej-annual-conferences/AC2015-agenda-saturday
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/judge-freedom-industries-proposal-underfunds-toxic-cleanup
[19] http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20150513/GZ01/150519685
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3081
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3078
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3079
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3080
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3083
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3084
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3085
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3086
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4962