Published on SEJ (https://www.sej.org)

Home >

"Critics Contest Dam Plan in Northwest" [3]

"The Obama administration’s new plan to show that salmon and hydroelectric dams can coexist along the Columbia and Snake Rivers is not all that different from the Bush administration’s old plan, according to critics who want a federal judge to rule against it."
Source: NYTimes [4], 10/12/2009

"U.S. Blocks Oil Drilling at 60 Sites in Utah" [5]

"The Department of the Interior has frozen oil and gas development on 60 of 77 contested drilling sites in Utah, saying the process of leasing the land was rushed and badly flawed."
Source: NYTimes [6], 10/12/2009

"Study Finds Danger in the Air Around Tonawanda Coke" [7]

Cancer stories "are numbingly familiar to people who live in the vicinity of Tonawanda Coke Corp. The coke foundry recently was found by the state Department of Environmental Conservation to be emitting benzene, a carcinogen, up to 75 times higher than recommended guidelines. Those levels were up to 2ù times more than what the company reported to regulators."
Source: Buffalo News [8], 10/12/2009

"Where They Grow Our Junk Food" [11]

To get to the root of the obesity epidemic, one Canadian reporter went in search of a junk food farm. There were no fields of Dorito bags waving in the breeze. "What you do see are vast operations growing the raw materials for junk food: soybeans and corn."
Source: Toronto Star [12], 10/12/2009

"Pollution an Enduring Legacy at Old Missile Sites" [13]

"As U.S. Air Force officials marked the 50th anniversary of the deployment of nuclear missiles to sites in the rural United States this past week, residents in some of these communities are still grappling with another legacy — groundwater pollution from chemicals used to clean and maintain the weapons."
Source: AP [14], 10/12/2009

Obama's Nobel Partly for Climate [19]

"President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today in part for what the award's organizers said was a 'more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting.'"
Source: Greenwire [20], 10/12/2009

Pages

The Society of Environmental Journalists
1629 K Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006
Telephone: (202) 558-2055
Email: sej@sej.org
© 2026 The Society of Environmental Journalists. All Rights Reserved.
All graphics © SEJ, unless otherwise stated.
Source URL:https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4778

Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-roadmap-kerry-and-graham-chart-a-compromise-course-of-sorts [2] http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/10/12/climate-roadmap-kerry-and-graham-chart-a-compromise-course-of-sorts/ [3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/critics-contest-dam-plan-northwest [4] http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/critics-contest-dam-plan-in-northwest/ [5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-blocks-oil-drilling-60-sites-utah [6] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/science/earth/09leases.html?ref=energy-environment [7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/study-finds-danger-air-around-tonawanda-coke [8] http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/824268.html [9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/marcellus-question-who-will-pay-to-monitor-gas-drilling [10] http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20091010/NEWS01/910100362/Marcellus question Who will pay to monitor gas drilling [11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/where-they-grow-our-junk-food [12] http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/708661--where-they-grow-our-junk-food [13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pollution-enduring-legacy-old-missile-sites [14] http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jSgYm1yGdz-G-jDXK4Pl52B1HrbQD9B8C2RO0 [15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/a-sea-change-ocean-management [16] http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=09-P13-00041&segmentID=1 [17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/federal-scientists-oppose-offshore-drilling-plans [18] http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ocean-drilling12-2009oct12,0,2819272.story [19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obamas-nobel-partly-climate [20] http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/10/09/09greenwire-obama-wins-nobel-prize-in-part-for-confronting-55250.html [21] https://www.sej.org/search_results [22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4777 [23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4774 [24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4775 [25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4776 [26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4779 [27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4780 [28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4781 [29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4782 [30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5016