"Washington’s Port of Longview says it is in talks with an energy company that last year submitted plans for a crude oil refinery on the Columbia River."
"Two Tennessee environmental groups claim toxic pollution from a coal-burning power plant is seeping into the Cumberland River and state regulators are not doing enough to stop it."
"The Bureau of Land Management has not asked the Justice Department to prosecute Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy or anyone else involved in an armed standoff last year with BLM officials who were attempting to round up cattle that were illegally grazing on federal lands, according to documents a government watchdog group sued to obtain."
"Three decades after EPA left regulation to states, they're still taking a 'see no evil' approach to oil-and-gas-waste, Earthworks says."
"California's 3-year-old drought has thrust seawater desalination into the spotlight as San Diego County, Santa Barbara and other cities push ahead with treatment plants that will soon turn the Pacific Ocean into a source of drinking water."
"After more than a decade of delays, the government is moving toward allowing the sale of U.S.-raised organic fish and shellfish. But don't expect it in the grocery store anytime soon."
"Environmentalists seeking to curb the deaths of an estimated 53,000 sea turtles each year from getting caught in commercial shrimp nets off the southeastern United States sued federal regulators on Wednesday for stronger protections."
"President Obama’s most far-reaching regulation to slow climate change will have its first day in court on Thursday, the beginning of what is expected to be a multiyear legal battle over the policy that Mr. Obama hopes to leave as his signature environmental achievement."
The 2015 conference will offer 150 panels, hands-on classes and special presentations about covering business, public safety, government, health care, education, the military, the environment and other key beats. SEJ is sponsoring two panels this year: “Oil Trains” and “Environmental Investigations.”
The news media became part of the story when a mountain lion took refuge under a Los Angeles-area house.
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/refinery-proposed-last-year-columbia-river-records-show
[2] http://www.opb.org/news/article/first-refinery-proposed-for-columbia-river/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/enviros-sue-tva-claiming-toxic-pollution-seeping-cumberland-river
[4] http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/48bc84fe5b6645318fbc8a664fcc5a70/TN--TVA-Gallatin-Plant
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/internal-docs-show-blm-made-no-criminal-referrals-after-bundy-standoff
[6] http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060016821
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fracking-waste-puts-public-risk-study-says
[8] http://insideclimatenews.org/news/15042015/fracking-waste-puts-public-risk-study-says
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/california-drought-renews-thirst-desalination-plants
[10] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/15/us-usa-desalination-california-idUSKBN0N601V20150415
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/usda-propose-standards-organic-seafood-raised-us
[12] http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/usda-propose-standards-organic-seafood-raised-us-30356679
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-sued-curb-deaths-sea-turtles-shrimping-industry
[14] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/73066
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/legal-battle-begins-over-obama-bid-curb-greenhouse-gases
[16] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/us/legal-battle-begins-over-obama-bid-to-curb-greenhouse-gases.html?ref=energy-environment&_r=0
[17] https://www.sej.org/calendar/investigative-reporters-and-editors-ire-2015-conference
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/mountain-lion-p-22-paparazzi-victim
[19] http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things/2015/04/14/mountain_lion_p_22_in_griffith_park_the_media_hassled_cougar_in_crawl_space.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top
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