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"Risky Business: Hollywood Bets Big on ‘Deepwater Horizon’ [1]

"In Hollywood, films like “Deepwater Horizon” are not supposed to exist."

Disasters [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NY Times [7], 09/23/2016
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"Deadly Pathogens Repeatedly Dispatched By U.S. Labs To Unsecure Sites" [8]

"The government isn’t regulating how highly dangerous viruses and bacteria are rendered safe for shipment, posing risks to the public, auditors say".

Disasters [2]
Environmental Health [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Science [11]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Ctr for Public Integrity [12], 09/23/2016
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"Alabama Pipeline Restarts, Restoring Gasoline Flow To East Coast" [13]

"Colonial Pipeline announced Wednesday that the company has restarted its Line 1, which had been shut down for more than 12 days, causing gasoline shortages and price increases, felt most in places like Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee."

Disasters [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Pollution [14]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Source: Alabama Media Group [16], 09/22/2016
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"ExxonMobil To Pay $12 Million In Montana Oil Spill Settlement" [17]

"ExxonMobil Corp. has agreed to pay $12 million to Montana and the U.S. government to restore natural resources damaged or destroyed by a pipeline rupture in 2011 that spilled oil into the Yellowstone River, according to a settlement proposed on Wednesday."

Disasters [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [14]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Reuters [18], 09/22/2016
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"Crews Rush To Restore Power In Blacked-Out Puerto Rico" [19]

"Repair crews worked through the night trying to restore electricity to Puerto Rico's 3.5 million people early Thursday after a fire at a power plant blacked out the entire U.S. territory."

Disasters [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Source: AP [20], 09/22/2016
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Pipeline Spill Causes Gas Shortages And Price Increases Across Region [21]

"Drivers are starting to see gas prices jump across the East Coast. A leak in Alabama has shut down part of an important pipeline providing gas to the Eastern US."

Disasters [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Pollution [14]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: WCYB [22], 09/19/2016
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"'We Got Our Butt Kicked' By Flooding, And Are Adapting" [23]

"MINOT, N.D. — Donna Bye's tour of the city she loves takes you by her old home, the red one on the left that, in 2011, flooded with 5 feet of Souris River water and backed-up sewage."

Climate Change [24]
Disasters [2]
People & Population [25]
Public [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [26]
Source: ClimateWire [27], 09/16/2016
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"Super Typhoon Meranti Hits Taiwan As Category 5 Storm [28]

"Tens of thousands of homes lost power across Taiwan on Wednesday as Super Typhoon Meranti hit the island, a storm seen as the strongest in the world so far this year, forcing schools and businesses to close and flights to be canceled."

Disasters [2]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [5]
Asia [30]
Source: Reuters [31], 09/15/2016
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"Outdated FEMA Flood Maps Don't Account For Climate Change" [32]

"The floods that hit Louisiana last month were caused by rainfall that was unlike anything seen there in centuries."

Climate Change [24]
Disasters [2]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Source: NPR [33], 09/15/2016
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S. California Gas To Pay $4-Million Settlement In Porter Ranch Gas Leak [34]

"Southern California Gas Co. agreed to pay $4 million to settle criminal charges over the massive gas leak near Porter Ranch last year, but the utility still faces potentially costly civil actions from both residents and regulators."

Disasters [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [14]
Public [5]
California [35]
Source: LA Times [36], 09/15/2016
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