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"Group Rates Minneapolis as Top U.S. City Park System" [1]

"Minneapolis, where 94% of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park, has the U.S.' best park system, according to new rankings by a national non-profit conservation group."

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Source: USA TODAY [6], 06/06/2013

"Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam’s 'Lost World'" [7]

 

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BookShelf [8]
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Biodiversity [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
People & Population [11]
Planning & Growth [3]
Wildlife [12]
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Asia [13]
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"Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall" [14]

 

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Biodiversity [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
People & Population [11]
Planning & Growth [3]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Mexico [17]
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Covering Sprawl, Science, and Chickens [18]

 

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Agriculture [20]
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June 11, 2013 to July 16, 2013

ELI Summer School Series 2013 [24]

These seven FREE training sessions on environmental law are open to the public. Topics include NEPA, CAA, CWA, Land Use, Hazardous Waste, and Product Safety. Attend at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, DC or via teleconference.

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Laws & Regulations [26]
Climate Change [27]
Air [28]
Planning & Growth [3]
Policy [29]
Water & Oceans [23]

"Texas Town’s Blast Crater Shows Risk From Patchwork Zoning Laws" [30]

"With two schools near a plant storing ammonium nitrate -- the fertilizer used in the Oklahoma City bombing -- West, Texas, Superintendent Marty Crawford said he had always worried about an explosion like the one that happened last week."

Disasters [21]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Planning & Growth [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Bloomberg [31], 04/26/2013

Toolbox: Database Helps Track Broken Promises on Parkland Conservation [32]

Seattle-based InvestigateWest published a feature package last summer documenting illegal parkland conversions in Michigan, New York City, and Oklahoma. They could not cover all the other states — that was left for you to do, with the assistance of their database of some 40,000 federal grants under the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

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WatchDog TipSheet [33]
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Planning & Growth [3]
Natural Resources [2]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Government [34]
Economy & Business [35]
Region: 
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [36]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [37]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
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Texas Fertilizer Explosion Re-Raises Buried Hazmat Disclosure Issues [38]

News stories about the April 17, 2013, explosion of a fertilizer storage plant in the town of West, Texas that killed 15 people have so far focused on the plant operator's risk-disclosure failure, instead of the likely fact that government agencies knew the nature and magnitude of the hazard — or should have known. The bigger story is the regulatory failure — and industry's decades-long campaign to keep the public ignorant of the threats they face. Photo: AP/LM Otero/Available through Creative Commons.

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Planning & Growth [3]
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Environmental Politics [39]
Disasters [21]
Chemicals [40]
Agriculture [20]
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"Pinellas Beginning To Assess Risks of Sea-Level Rise" [41]

"CLEARWATER -- Despite warnings from scientists, rising sea levels still seem little more than a distant, imperceptible threat, a phenomenon whose change is measured in centimeters over decades."

Climate Change [27]
Planning & Growth [3]
Public [4]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Source: Tampa Tribune [42], 04/23/2013

SEJournal Spring 2013, Vol. 23 No. 1 [43]

In this issue: Special report on energy and climate change; first installment of new column 'Freelance Files' on goal setting; database helps track illegal parkland conversions; members cover sprawl, science and chickens; annual Sundance Film Festival report; and six book reviews.

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Climate Change [27]
Energy & Fuel [45]
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Natural Resources [2]
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