"A team of independent investigators has concluded that a corporate culture at Massey Energy put coal production before safety, prompting a collection of major safety infractions that caused the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster." Their report also faulted state and federal mine safety regulators for lax enforcement.
This policy-focused conference aims to bring together researchers, officials and representatives of the private sector and NGOs to find effective, forward-looking responses to climate change in the Caribbean.
Join a discussion of the book with authors Charles Saylan, executive director of the Ocean Conservation Society and SEJ member, and Daniel T. Blumstein, professor and chair of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA.
"A dead zone -- already the size of the state of New Jersey -- is growing in the Gulf of Mexico, fueled by nutrient runoff from the swollen Mississippi River."
"The California Chamber of Commerce routinely denounces bills that protect workers, consumers and the environment as job killers. But when the bills become law, there's no economic catastrophe."
"Radiation has contaminated the underground pipes, water tanks, and plumbing that provide drinking water for much of Central Texas and the famed Texas Hill Country, according to concerned city officials in the region who have tested the pipes with Geiger counters."
"An old compact may not be enough to keep the Tongue River from running dry."
"Opponents of a pipeline that would nearly double U.S. imports of Canadian oil-sands crude sued the State Department today in a bid to force speedy disclosure of any contacts it made with a lobbyist for the pipeline's sponsor."
"The disputed share swap and oil exploration agreement between BP and the Russian state-owned company Rosneft has collapsed, leaving some BP investors questioning the company’s future strategy and freeing Rosneft to look for a new partner in Russia."
"Five years before the crucial emergency vents at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were disabled by an accident they were supposed to help handle, engineers at a reactor in Minnesota warned American regulators about that very problem."
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[2] http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201105191296
[3] https://www.sej.org/calendar/responding-climate-change-caribbean
[4] https://www.sej.org/calendar/presentation-and-book-signing-failure-environmental-education-and-how-we-can-fix-it
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/farm-runoff-mississippi-river-floodwater-fuels-dead-zone-gulf
[6] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/05/the-gulf-of-mexico-has.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/op-ed-job-killers-arent
[8] http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-cohen-jobkillers-20110519,0,7296495.story
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/texas-drinking-water-makes-pipes-and-plumbing-radioactive
[10] http://www.khou.com/home/-I-Team-Texas-drinking-water-makes-pipes-and-plumbing-radioactive-122108194.html
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/where-has-montanas-water-gone
[12] http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.8/where-has-montanas-water-gone
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/oil-pipeline-foes-sue-state-department-release-documents
[14] http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/05/18/18greenwire-oil-pipeline-foes-sue-state-department-for-rel-89728.html
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bp-deal-russian-oil-giant-collapses
[16] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/business/global/18bp.html
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-was-warned-vents-failure-japan%E2%80%99s-plant
[18] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/science/earth/19nuke.html
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