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Small Cuts In EPA Air Grants Mean Big Headache for State Regulators [1]

"At a glance, U.S. EPA's plan to cut an $11.5 million grant program in an effort to meet the sequestration mandate doesn't look like much given the agency's $8.5 billion budget. But that's a lot of money to state and local air regulators who have been counting on it."

Source: Greenwire [2], 04/25/2013

"Demand For Metals Likely To Increase Tenfold, Study Says" [3]

"Demand for metals is likely to increase tenfold as developing economies surge ahead, putting severe stress on the natural environment, a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned."

Source: Guardian [4], 04/25/2013

"NM Grapples With Tough Choices as Drought Persists" [5]

"HATCH, N.M. -- In southern New Mexico, the mighty Rio Grande has gone dry -- reduced to a sandy wash winding from this chile farming community to the nation's leading pecan-producing county. Only puddles remain, leaving gangs of carp to huddle together in a desperate effort to avoid the fate of thousands of freshwater clams, their shells empty and broken on the river bottom."

Source: AP [6], 04/25/2013

"Many Coal Sludge Impoundments Have Weak Walls, Federal Study Says" [7]

"Many of the man-made ponds for storing toxic sludge from coal mining operations have dangerously weak walls because of poor construction methods, according to the synopsis of a study for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement obtained by The Washington Post."

Source: Wash Post [8], 04/25/2013

"California Suspends Operations at Vernon Battery Recycler" [9]

"Toxics regulators say Exide Technologies has been releasing hazardous waste into the soil beneath its plant because of a degraded pipeline."

Source: LA Times [10], 04/25/2013

"U.S. Military Faulted for Burn-Pit Use" [11]

"The U.S. military spent $5 million on incinerators at a base in Afghanistan that never became operable, forcing troops to use a type of open-air burn pit that has been linked to serious respiratory problems among veterans, according to a government report."

Source: Wash Post [12], 04/25/2013

"Three Injured in Fuel Barge Explosion In Mobile River" [13]

"MOBILE, Alabama -- Three people were hurt in a fuel barge explosion on the east side of Mobile River on Wednesday night, Mobile Fire-Rescue reported.

Source: Mobile Press-Register [14], 04/25/2013

Rep. Issa Investigating Energy Dept. Loan, Sought Funds For His District [15]

"Has the GOP found its new Solyndra? On Wednesday the House Oversight Committee held a hearing titled, 'Green Energy Oversight: Examining the Department of Energy's Bad Bet on Fisker Automotive.'"

Source: Huffington Post [16], 04/25/2013

IG: DHS Agency for Oversight of Fertilizer Plant Security in Disarray [17]

"The Homeland Security Department program charged with the security of chemical facilities like the former West Fertilizer Co. plant has been riddled with problems so severe since its creation five years ago that federal investigators recently wondered publicly 'whether it can achieve its mission, given the challenges the program continues to face.'"

Source: Austin American-Statesman [18], 04/25/2013

What’s Coming in Energy? Veteran Reporters Look Ahead [19]

What big energy issues will emerge on the reporting agenda for the year to come? To find out, the SEJ convened a panel of top-flight environmental journalists at the Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. Jan. 25, 2013.

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