OAKLAND, Calif. -- The U.S. State Department is in the process of deciding whether the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline would be in the U.S. national interest, but the determination is being made without Keystone XL’s digital GIS data, such as the longitude and latitude of milepost markers, waterbody crossings and the centerline route."
"A 27-year-old U.S. program intended to warn the public of the presence of hazardous chemicals is flawed in many states due to scant oversight and lax reporting by plant owners, a Reuters examination finds."
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"Nearly 600 residents of Eastern North Carolina have notified Smithfield Foods that they plan to file lawsuits charging that stench, flies and pollution from the world’s largest pork producer have deprived them of the use and enjoyment of their property."
"The Bureau of Land Management today released the draft environmental review of a Wyoming-to-Nevada transmission line project that would allow wind-generated electricity in Wyoming to power homes as far away as California and could play a major role in meeting aggressive renewable energy goals outlined last week in President Obama's climate change strategy."
"PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Nineteen firefighters killed in a wildfire a week ago went home for the last time on Sunday, their bodies traveling in individual white hearses in a somber caravan for 125 miles through Arizona cities and towns."
"Hydrologist David Evetts drove north from his office in Boise, Idaho, to the former prospecting town of Elk City on May 2. Fifty miles down a dead-end mountain road, he stopped at a gray metal box on a bridge over the South Fork Clearwater River. Reaching inside, he turned off the satellite feed that once relayed the river's water-level measurements from stream gauge number 13337500 every 15 minutes."
"KALAMAZOO -- John DeKoff lives only a few hundred yards from a mound of 1.5 million cubic yards of potentially carcinogenic, toxic material. And he prefers it stay right where it is."
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[2] http://ens-newswire.com/2013/07/08/keystone-xl-pipeline-deciding-without-data/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-system-flagging-hazardous-chemicals-widely-flawed
[4] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/69164
[5] https://www.sej.org/calendar/webcast-xxth-regular-session-cec-council
[6] https://www.sej.org/calendar/wetlands-wildlife-habitat-and-flood-hazards-rock-river-basin-webinar-series-wetland-restora
[7] https://www.sej.org/calendar/local-environment-department-defense
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hundreds-file-complaints-over-hog-farm-waste
[9] http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/07/3015749/hundreds-file-suits-over-hog-farm.html
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/blm-advances-major-wyo-nev-project-admin-pushes-renewables
[11] http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1059983876
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/procession-brings-home-fallen-ariz-firefighters
[13] http://bigstory.ap.org/article/procession-brings-home-fallen-ariz-firefighters
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/sequestration-sinks-stream-gauges
[15] http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.11/sequestration-sinks-stream-gauges
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hopes-climb-amid-talks-clean-contaminated-mt-pcb-kalamazoo
[17] http://www.freep.com/article/20130707/NEWS06/307070064/-Mount-PCB-Residents-fight-for-site-along-Kalamazoo-River
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[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3605
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3608
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3609
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3610
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[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4959