"Former Workers, Whistleblowers Shed Light on Nuclear Site Safety Setbacks" [1]
"Former employees at Hanford, the country's most contaminated nuclear waste site, discuss its disturbing safety culture"
Source: Aljazeera America [2], 10/16/2014
"Former employees at Hanford, the country's most contaminated nuclear waste site, discuss its disturbing safety culture"
"Six organizations are teaming up to visit college campuses and encourage young people to vote in the name of environmental protection."
"The United States is considering a proposal to combat climate change that would require countries to offer plans for curtailing greenhouse gas emissions on a certain schedule but would leave it to individual nations to determine how deep their cuts would be, said Todd Stern, the nation’s chief climate negotiator."
"This summer, California’s water authority declared that wasting water — hosing a sidewalk, for example — was a crime. Next door, in Nevada, Las Vegas has paid out $200 million over the last decade for homes and businesses to pull out their lawns."
"Bay’s improved harvest coincides with disasters in Gulf to reverse long-term trend of local processors bringing in bivalves from the South."
"Natural gas has been touted as a vital stepping stone in the transition away from petroleum, but a new study suggests that without clear policy gas could divert investment in renewables."
"Forecasters say Hurricane Gonzalo has strengthened overnight and is again a dangerous Category 4 storm as it barrels toward the small British island territory of Bermuda."
"Government regulators have approved a new generation of genetically engineered corn and soybeans. They're the latest weapon in an arms race between farmers and weeds, and the government's green light is provoking angry opposition from environmentalists."
"The pipeline that launched so many street protests, ad campaigns and political headaches for the White House is increasingly irrelevant in the midterm elections and the energy markets — even for the groups that have fought so hard to either build it or block it."
"MEDORA, N.D. — The National Park Service is thinning the bison and elk herds in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, to keep them at manageable levels."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/former-workers-whistleblowers-shed-light-nuclear-site-safety-setbacks
[2] http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/10/15/hanford-part-two.html
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/greens-launch-youth-voter-turnout-drive
[4] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/220864-greens-launch-climate-youth-voter-turnout-drive
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-considers-climate-change-plan-would-mandate-emission-cuts
[6] http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-climate-change-proposal-20141015-story.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/risks-cheap-water
[8] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/business/economy/the-price-of-water-is-too-low.html?ref=energy-environment
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chesapeake-oysters-being-shipped-louisiana-shucking-houses
[10] http://www.bayjournal.com/article/chesapeake_oysters_being_shipped_to_louisiana_shucking_houses
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/natural-gass-green-image-could-be-hot-air-say-scientists
[12] http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2014/1015/Natural-gas-s-green-image-could-be-hot-air-say-scientists
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hurricane-gonzalo-aims-bermuda-dangerous-category-4-storm
[14] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/16/hurricane-gonzalo_n_5994892.html?utm_hp_ref=green
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-gmos-get-regulatory-green-light-hint-yellow
[16] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/15/356416365/new-gmos-get-a-regulatory-green-light-with-a-hint-of-yellow
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/incredible-shrinking-keystone
[18] http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/the-incredible-shrinking-keystone-111876.html
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/national-park-nd-thinning-bison-and-elk-herds
[20] http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/National-park-in-ND-thinning-bison-and-elk-herds-5823837.php
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[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3232
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[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3231
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[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3235
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[30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4952