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An Expansive Investigation's Key Lesson: Think BIG [4]

SEJournal has the "Inside Story" on "The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America's Schools," a USA Today series by Blake Morrison and Brad Heath that won SEJ's 2009 Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting.

 

How To Prepare Your Entry [5]

This page outlines the formatting and submission requirements for award entries. Before submitting, please carefully review the instructions below. Incomplete or incorrectly formatted entries may be disqualified.

 

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"Final NO2 Rule Cuts Back on Roadside Monitors" [7]

"U.S. EPA's final air quality standard for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) entails new requirements for measuring peak exposures near roads, but it would monitor fewer roadside locations than the agency's original proposal."

Source: Greenwire [8], 01/29/2010

"Bin Laden Blasts US for Climate Change" [9]

"Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called in a new audiotape for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming."

Source: AP [10], 01/29/2010

"U.S. Pledges 17 Percent Emissions Reduction by 2020" [13]

"The United States pledged Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels under an international climate agreement, though it made its commitment contingent on passing legislation at home."

Source: Wash Post [14], 01/29/2010

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