"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. [4]
"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.
"WYSOX, Pa. - The Marcellus Shale natural gas industry has a huge thirst for water - to hydraulically fracture a single gas well requires upward of a thousand tanker-trucks of water."
"Nearly 1,600 children age 5 and younger live close enough to an airport in Brevard County to be at risk from leaded gasoline used by small piston planes and helicopters."
"What landed in the Tyee's inbox was entirely in keeping with the government's handling of a contentious proposal by a natural gas company to divert large quantities of water out of Williston Reservoir. When word leaked that the government had approved the diversion scheme, a rather strange statement was issued that began by noting that the provincial Cabinet minister in charge was unavailable."
Ben Parfitt reports for The Tyee August 22, 2011.
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama-admin-outlines-500-reforms-it-says-will-save-businesses-billions
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/08/23/23greenwire-obama-admin-outlines-500-reforms-it-says-will-24456.html
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fukushima-fallout-said-30-times-hiroshimas
[4] http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110824f2.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/911-koch-has-fought-against-tougher-rules-chemical-plants
[6] http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/08/24/5939/911-koch-industries-has-fought-against-tougher-government-rules-chemical-plants
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/quake-raises-safety-concerns-us-nuclear-plant-shut
[8] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/24/us-quake-usa-nuclear-dominion-idUSTRE77M8C120110824
[9] https://www.sej.org/library/useful-links/no-water-no-life
[10] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-irp-reporting-trip
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/sciam-nytimes-specials-cities
[12] http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammag/?contents=2011-09
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/gas-drilling-industry-sucking-pas-creeks-dry
[14] http://articles.philly.com/2011-08-21/business/29911989_1_gas-drillers-natural-gas-withdrawal-point
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/aviation-gas-poses-lead-risk-thousands-brevard
[16] http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110821/NEWS01/108210323
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/down-drain-goes-publics-right-know-about-fracking
[18] http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/08/22/Public-Knowledge-of-Fracking/
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