"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doesn’t do enough to stop hundreds of hazardous chemicals from getting into waterways via sewage plants, a watchdog report found."
"The company promoting the controversial and beleaguered Pebble mine project lost a legal battle Friday when a federal judge threw out one of its lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency."
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"Deborah Swackhamer, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Minnesota, decided last year to investigate the chemistry of the nearby Zumbro River. She and her colleagues were not surprised to find traces of pesticides in the water."
"North Dakota’s oil rush brings cash and promise to reservation, along with drug-fueled crime"
"The state Department of Environmental Protection might have used incomplete and inaccurate test information to decide whether chemicals leaking from a Marcellus Shale wastewater impoundment and a drill cuttings pit contaminated a water well and springs in Washington County."
"The woman cowers inside a phone booth as a fury of birds tears through town. Demented seabirds hurl themselves at the windows, cracking the glass. Outside, beaks and claws swirl over bloody bodies in the streets."
"The solar power business is growing quickly in the U.S. More than 500,000 homeowners and businesses installed solar panels in just the first half of this year, according to a Solar Energy Industries Association report."
"With a record U.S. harvest just coming in, the river transportation system that is at the heart of the nation's farm economy is overstrained by rising demand for shipping capacity, a low barge inventory, and a dilapidated lock system."
"The Tongass National Forest, a panoply of snow-dusted peaks and braided rivers, slender fjords and more than 5,000 islands draped over a stretch of Pacific coastline, is widely viewed as one of America’s great natural treasures. Under pressure from environmentalists, the Obama administration pledged four years ago to phase out logging of virgin woodlands here."
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/auditors-fault-epa-lax-chemical-safeguards
[2] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/219233-auditors-fault-epa-for-lax-chemical-safeguards
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/alaska-judge-dismisses-pebble-lawsuit-against-epa-premature
[4] http://www.adn.com/article/20140926/alaska-judge-dismisses-pebble-lawsuit-against-epa-premature
[5] https://www.sej.org/calendar/sej-poynter-science-and-environmental-journalism-workshop
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/rising-tide-contaminants
[7] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/a-rising-tide-of-contaminants/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/dark-side-boom
[9] http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/09/28/dark-side-of-the-boom
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pennyslvania-dep-admits-drilling-probe-error
[11] http://powersource.post-gazette.com/powersource/companies-powersource/2014/09/29/DEP-admits-drilling-probe-error/stories/201409280221
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/seabird-runs-gauntlet-hazards-40000-mile-annual-trip
[13] http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2014/aug/wingedwarnings14perilousvoyage
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/solar-advocates-fight-utilities-over-grid-access
[15] http://www.npr.org/2014/09/25/351437119/solar-advocates-fight-utilities-over-grid-access
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-river-freight-system-near-breaking-point-huge-harvest-looms
[17] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/26/us-usa-grains-barges-idUSKCN0HL1L120140926
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/alaska-battle-keep-trees-or-industry-standing
[19] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/us/a-battle-to-keep-trees-or-an-industry-standing.html?ref=energy-environment&_r=0
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