The tar-sands oil entering the pipeline in Alberta contains a small amount of water. Whether this will cause corrosion of the pipeline is a question that has brought high emotions and little actual study.
"BOSTON — In the world of environmental regulation, where the hope is to write rules that both industry and science can live with, few areas are as contentious as fishing. Especially on the East Coast, fishermen attack scientists as mired in bottomless ignorance about how fish are actually caught. Scientists sometimes describe fishermen as racing to catch the last fish, regardless of the harm to vanishing species."
"Of all the things there are to worry about, earthquakes are fairly low on the list for those on the East Coast. So it was startling, just as the lunch hour was ending Tuesday and workers in a broad area of North America were settling back into their cubicles, when floors began to shake and chairs rocked."
"Seven months after receiving an executive order to cut red tape, federal agencies today released their final plans for cutting burdensome regulations, unveiling hundreds of changes that are estimated to save billions of dollars and millions of hours of paperwork in the coming years."
"Video footage of Tatsuhiko Kodama's impassioned speech before a Diet committee in July went viral online recently, showing the medical expert's shocking revelation that the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant spewed some 30 times more radioactive materials than the fallout from the Hiroshima atomic bombing."
Jun Hongo reports for the Japan Times August 24, 2011. [10]
"Koch argues that tough restrictions on petrochemicals aren’t necessary because there hasn’t been a terrorist attack here since 9/11."
"The largest earthquake to hit the East Coast of the United States in 67 years raised concerns on Tuesday about the safety of the country's nuclear power plants. The 5.8 magnitude quake's epicenter was just a few miles from the two-reactor North Anna nuclear power plant operated by Dominion Resources in Mineral, Virginia, 80 miles southwest of Washington."
Founded in 2006 by SEJ member Alison M. Jones, No Water No Life photography teams document historic, current and potential management issues of six case-study watersheds: North America’s Columbia, Mississippi and Raritan River Basins and northeastern Africa’s Nile, Omo and Mara River Basins.
The International Reporting Project is accepting applications until June 14th from U.S. journalists for a media reporting trip to Kazakhstan, a huge but little-known Asian country whose government has been active in global nuclear nonproliferation talks. The trip, August 3-14, 2013, is a unique opportunity to visit a key country of 17 million persons bordering Russia and China.
Most of humanity today lives an a metropolis. Is all climate local? Cities are the locus of many of the world's unique environmental, social, and economic problems. But they are also demonstrating a unique talent for applying smarter technology and policy to create a better future.
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/corrosion-questions-hound-canada-us-oil-pipeline
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/08/23/23greenwire-with-emotions-high-and-evidence-low-corrosion-11949.html
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fishing-gear-altered-ease-collateral-costs-marine-life
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/science/23catch.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/above-all-else-eastern-quake-rattles-nerves
[6] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/us/24quake.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama-admin-outlines-500-reforms-it-says-will-save-businesses-billions
[8] http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/08/23/23greenwire-obama-admin-outlines-500-reforms-it-says-will-24456.html
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fukushima-fallout-said-30-times-hiroshimas
[10] http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110824f2.html
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/911-koch-has-fought-against-tougher-rules-chemical-plants
[12] http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/08/24/5939/911-koch-industries-has-fought-against-tougher-government-rules-chemical-plants
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/quake-raises-safety-concerns-us-nuclear-plant-shut
[14] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/24/us-quake-usa-nuclear-dominion-idUSTRE77M8C120110824
[15] https://www.sej.org/library/useful-links/no-water-no-life
[16] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-irp-reporting-trip
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/sciam-nytimes-specials-cities
[18] http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammag/?contents=2011-09
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