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A Dozen (Or More) TV Stories To Sell Your News Manager For Sweeps [1]

By VINCE PATTON

 

 In Miami, NBC-6 reporter Jeff Burnside thought he had a great story about the restoration of bountiful seagrass beds. But managers weren't interested.

"Later," Burnside says, "I pitched a story about steep fines for boaters running aground." That story they liked.

"CN Rail Pleads Guilty for Massive Oil Spills" [2]

"Canadian National Railway pleaded guilty on Monday to polluting Canada's wilderness in two train derailments, one of them resulting in the largest inland oil spill in Canada's history."
Source: AFP [3], 05/26/2009

"Ash on the Fly" [4]

Terry and Sandy Gupton are worried for the health of both their cattle and themselves. They live near the stretch of the Emory River clogged with coal ash sludge from a Dec. 22, 2008, spill from a TVA plant.
Source: Chattanooga Times [5], 05/26/2009

Redefining 'Renewable' To Win Billiions [6]

In the quest for billions in federal incentives, industries are trying to redefine technologies as 'renewable' that might once have been considered otherwise.
Source: NYTimes [7], 05/26/2009

"Baltimore Biofuel Plant Heats Up" [10]

"The thick, milky white liquid looks like Elmer's glue, though it's greasy to the touch. It has a sweet, alcohol smell. It's not your father's heating oil, to be sure. But it will do the same job, says Cary J. Claiborne, and a lot more cleanly.

Claiborne is president and chief executive officer of New Generation Biofuels, a Florida-based startup that's producing fuel from vegetable and soybean oil at a small production plant it set up this year in southern Baltimore.

Source: Baltimore Sun [11], 05/26/2009

Business Leaders Hear Climate Warnings [16]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a meeting of business leaders in Copenhagen that "climate change is the defining challenge of our time."
Source: ENS [17], 05/26/2009

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