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Wisc. Utilities Settle for $1.2B with EPA On Coal Plant Air Pollution [1]

"Wisconsin Power & Light Co. and three other utilities will spend $1.2 billion to clean up coal-fired power plants and shut down older plants under a settlement announced Monday with federal regulators."

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel [2], 04/23/2013

Ark. Oil Spill Probe Falls to Understaffed Agency With Industry Ties [3]

"Underfunded agency faces the challenge of finding answers to key questions: When did Exxon's pipeline rupture and when did the company learn of the spill?"

Source: InsideClimate News [4], 04/23/2013

"Coal-Backed Research Takes on Mining Health Studies" [5]

"CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Scientists backed by a $15 million industry-funded research project are picking apart -- and trying to disprove -- a series of studies that found coalfield residents near mountaintop-removal mining operations face greater risks of serious illness and premature death."

Source: Charleston Gazette [6], 04/23/2013

800 Love Canals: "Toxic Legacy's Time Bomb" [7]

"Nearly 800 hazardous waste sites are located in Erie, Niagara and Cattaraugus counties, and the majority of them are a threat to the largest source of fresh water in the world – the Great Lakes."

Source: Buffalo News [8], 04/23/2013

"Pinellas Beginning To Assess Risks of Sea-Level Rise" [9]

"CLEARWATER -- Despite warnings from scientists, rising sea levels still seem little more than a distant, imperceptible threat, a phenomenon whose change is measured in centimeters over decades."

Source: Tampa Tribune [10], 04/23/2013

"Water Rights Tear at an Indian Reservation" [11]

"RONAN, Mont. -- In a place where the lives and histories of Indian tribes and white settlers intertwine like mingling mountain streams, a bitter battle has erupted on this land over the rivers running through it."

Source: NY Times [12], 04/23/2013

"Raw Sewage Continues to Contaminate Waterways in New England" [13]

"Billions of gallons of raw sewage and contaminated stormwater surge every year into the waterways and onto the streets of New England, as a 40-year-old pledge to clean America's lakes, rivers and streams remains unfulfilled."

Source: NECIR [14], 04/23/2013

"EPA Probes Flame Retardants But Lacks Power To Ban" [15]

"As the Obama administration launches a broad investigation of flame retardants used in furniture and other household goods, the nation's top environmental regulators are running into the limitations of a federal law that makes it practically impossible to ban hazardous chemicals."

Source: Chicago Tribune [16], 04/23/2013

"EPA Releases Harsh Review of Keystone XL Environmental Report" [17]

"The Environmental Protection Agency issued a sharply critical assessment of the State Department's recent environmental impact review of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, certain to complicate efforts to win approval for the $7-billion project."

Source: LA Times [18], 04/23/2013

Comment on SEJ Statement Regarding More EPA Openness by ex-EPA Chief of Public Affairs [19]

Reporters aren't the only ones frustrated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's clampdown on press coverage, which prompted SEJ recently to call it "one of the most closed, opaque agencies" in the federal government. Patrick Boyle, former chief of public affairs for EPA's Mid-Atlantic regional office, says politically motivated "message control" didn't begin with the Obama administration, but it's gotten much worse under a president who promised greater transparency in government.

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