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EPA To Revise Climate Rule for New Power Plants, Require Carbon Capture [1]

"This month, the Environmental Protection Agency will propose standards that will establish stricter pollution limits for gas-fired power plants than coal-fired power plants, according to individuals who were briefed on the matter but asked not to be identified because the rule was not public yet."

Source: Wash Post [2], 09/12/2013

"Undercover Investigators Solve Heinous Wyoming Wildlife Crimes" [3]

"The death threat itself didn’t bother Mike Ehlebracht. He’d been threatened plenty of times before."

Source: Casper Star-Tribune [4], 09/12/2013

Natural Disasters Bigger Threat Than Terrorism, First Responders Say [5]

"Twelve years ago, terrorism seemed to be the biggest safety threat to the D.C. region. Now many area emergency management officials think a bigger threat has emerged: natural disasters."

Source: WAMU [6], 09/12/2013

"EPA Documents Raise Doubts Over Intent of New Nuclear-Response Guide" [7]

"WASHINGTON -- Newly obtained government documents are prompting concern among critics that Environmental Protection Agency officials are seeking to use the organization’s new guide for nuclear-incident response to relax public health standards, but the agency is denying the claim."

Source: Global Security Newswire [8], 09/12/2013

"More Than 1,100 Have Cancer After 9/11" [9]

"Reggie Hilaire was a rookie cop on September 11, 2001. He worked at ground zero for 11 days beside his colleagues -- many of them, including Hilaire, not wearing a mask. He was later assigned to a landfill in Staten Island, where debris from the World Trade Center was dumped."

Source: CNN [10], 09/12/2013

"EPA Chemist Who Revealed Twin Towers Toxic Dust Fired -- Again" [11]

"WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientist who first revealed the dangers of toxic dust at the World Trade Center disaster site has received a second notice of proposed removal from her job more than a year after a federal civil service court ordered her returned to work."

Source: ENS [12], 09/12/2013

Pennsylvania Blocks Report Criticizing Shale Gas [13]

Under law, Pennsylvania was supposed to publish a report outlining climate change impacts on the state by Spring 2012. But the Department of Environmental Protection says it is still being reviewed, and nobody will say when it might be published.

Enviros Sue EPA for Dropping Collection of Livestock Data [14]

The groups said that EPA's proposed rule was needed to control pollution, under the Clean Water Act, from more than 20,000 concentrated animal feeding operations across the country. EPA initially published the rule in October 2011, but then withdrew it July 20, 2012.

Lisa Jackson Emails: Transparency Crisis or Political Nothingburger? [15]

A hearing September 10, 2013, before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform featured former EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and other Obama administration officials in a theatrical stare-down with House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA, pictured) that garnered buckets of news media coverage.

Calif. Highway Patrol Sort of Backs Down — Questions Remain [16]

SEJ complained in an August 7 letter to CHP that the arrest of Willits News photog Steven Eberhard for attempting to document a protest was a violation of constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press. CHP responded August 28, noting that its policies for news media access to the Willits highway bypass construction site had changed. However, several assertions in the letter are not true, according to Eberhard and a video of the incident. © Photo by Steve Eberhard: CHP arrests demonstrators Sept. 10, 2013, at the Willits, Calif., bypass construction site.

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