"Vt. Nuke Plant Closes After Radioactive Water Leak" [1]
"Technicians at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant will begin work Monday morning to fix a pipe that leaked radioactive water and forced the plant to shut down."
Source: AP [2], 11/08/2010
"Technicians at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant will begin work Monday morning to fix a pipe that leaked radioactive water and forced the plant to shut down."
"A brown substance is killing coral organisms in colonies located 4,600 feet deep about seven miles southwest of the failed BP Macondo oil well, according to scientists who returned Thursday from a three-week cruise studying coral reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico."
"In the face of probes by a state attorney general, hints of hostile congressional hearings and assaults from critics in the blogosphere, hundreds of members of the American Geophysical Union are forming a rapid-response team aiming to challenge disinformation and misinformation deployed in the policy wars over global warming."
"Along the Mediterranean coast of France, in the city of Montpellier, prosecutors are quietly putting on trial an ancient French tradition — the fishing and trading of the majestic Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna, a sushi delicacy sold in restaurants from New York to Tokyo."
"As a young state attorney in the early days of environmental regulation, [Pamela Giblin] built up the laws that regulate pollution of the state's water and air. Today, age 64 and still raven-haired and self-effacing, she is the senior attorney for some of the state's largest polluters — dedicated, some would say, to finding cracks in those same laws."
A farm lobby coalition has received federal money to attack the Environmental Working Group's list of the most pesticide-laden fruits and vegetables.
"The Chesapeake Bay does not like your lawn. That green grass is probably coated with pesticides and fertilizers and studded with pet poop. All that washes off in the rain and causes environmental problems downstream in the Chesapeake."
"Federal financing of science research, which has risen quickly since the Obama administration came to power, could fall back to pre-Obama levels if the incoming Republican leadership in the House of Representatives follows through on its list of campaign promises."
"President Obama's newfound interest in expanded natural gas drilling yesterday surprised many on all sides of the drilling debate, from environmentalists to drillers and even the coal industry."
"Can the administration fight climate change without stressing climate change?"
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/vt-nuke-plant-closes-after-radioactive-water-leak
[2] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101108/ap_on_bi_ge/us_vermont_yankee
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/scientists-find-dead-and-dying-coral-near-bp-spill-site
[4] http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/11/scientists_find_dead_and_dying.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/scientists-join-forces-hostile-climate
[6] http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/scientists-join-forces-in-a-hostile-climate/?ref=energy-environment
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/black-market-bluefin
[8] http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/2643/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/lawyer-who-helped-write-texas-env-laws-now-helps-industry-skirt-them
[10] http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/lawyer-for-industry-played-key-role-establishing-texas-1029143.html
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/most-pesticide-laden-fruits-and-veggies-list-under-attack
[12] http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/11/government-attacks-most-pesticide-laden-fruits-and-veggies-list
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-tries-get-chesapeake-bay-cleanup-back-track
[14] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/07/AR2010110705206.html
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[16] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/business/04research.html?hpw
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obamas-enthusiasm-gas-drilling-raises-eyebrows
[18] http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/11/04/04greenwire-obamas-enthusiasm-for-gas-drilling-raises-eyeb-33483.html
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama-shifting-climate-strategy-after-gop-gains
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