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"Study Spotlights High Breast Cancer Risk for Plastics Workers" [1]

"WINDSOR, Ontario -- For more than three decades, workers, most of them women, have complained of dreadful conditions in many of this city’s plastic automotive parts factories: Pungent fumes and dust that caused nosebleeds, headaches, nausea and dizziness. Blobs of smelly, smoldering plastic dumped directly onto the floor. 'It was like hell,' says one woman who still works in the industry."

Source: Center for Public Integrity [2], 11/20/2012

"Climate Change Touching Indiana Dunes, Researchers Say" [3]

"GARY -- The warming planet is affecting Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. From lower water levels in Lake Michigan to declining food sources for the endangered Karner Blue butterfly, climate change is having an impact on the national park."

Source: Gary Post-Tribune [4], 11/20/2012

"What If a Superstorm Strikes Sacramento?" [5]

"Superstorm Sandy made one thing clear to millions in the New York metro area: Despite modern transportation and communication systems, and extensive water and electricity services, nature is still in control. The same is true in Sacramento."

Source: Sacramento Bee [6], 11/20/2012

Hurricane Sandy Destroys Jobs, Brings Threat Of Poverty To Thousands [7]

"JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- At the time of day Friday when most workers are making plans for happy hour, Cheryl Johnson is making a final scan of the online job listings at the Jersey City One-Stop Career Center. Her skirt suit is wrinkled. Johnson lost her job after Hurricane Sandy lashed the mid-Atlantic states three weeks ago."

Source: Huffington Post [8], 11/20/2012

"Court Sympathetic To NRC Over Post-Fukushima Reactor Licensing" [9]

"Federal appeals court judges today indicated that environmental groups may face an uphill battle in challenging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval of a reactor design and the country's first new nuclear construction in more than three decades."

Source: Greenwire [10], 11/20/2012

"California Carbon Market Launches, Permits Priced Below Expectations" [11]

"California's largest greenhouse gas emitting businesses paid $10.09 per metric tonne (1.1 ton) for the right to release carbon, raising almost $300 million for the cash-strapped state and its energy companies in its first-ever carbon permit auction."

Source: Reuters [12], 11/20/2012

"U.S. Board Issues Subpoena on Offshore Platform Blast" [13]

"A U.S. industrial accident investigative board served Black Elk Energy with a subpoena on Monday, seeking information about last week's offshore Gulf of Mexico oil platform explosion that left one worker dead and another missing."

Source: Reuters [14], 11/20/2012

"Amid Budget Scrutiny, CIA Shutters Climate Center" [15]

"With the U.S. intelligence budget shrinking, the CIA has quietly shut down its Center on Climate Change and National Security -- a project that was launched with the support of Leon Panetta when he led the agency, but that drew sharp criticism from some Republicans in Congress."

Source: Greenwire [16], 11/20/2012

Your Work in Seven Words: Inaugural Gathering of SEJ NYC [17]

This unofficial SEJ NYC group seeks to build and sustain the professional ties between environmental journalists and editors in all media, who live and/or work in the New York City metro area. Photo: © Kate Lutz.

Slowing Cargo Ships Cuts Pollution Near Ports By More Than Half: Study [18]

"Slowing cargo vessels near coastlines by 10 to 15 miles per hour could dramatically cut ships’ air pollution, according to a new study. But only a few U.S. ports have initiated such efforts."

Source: EHN [19], 11/19/2012

Your Work in Seven Words: Inaugural Gathering of SEJ NYC [17]

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