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"Fire Is Out, Norfolk Southern Begins Cleanup" [1]

"Federal investigators seeking the cause of a North Side train derailment are taking a close look at the tracks, after early scrutiny of the crew's actions and the train itself revealed no glaring problems."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [3]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Source: Columbus Dispatch [6], 07/13/2012
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"Disaster Declared in 26 States as Drought Sears U.S." [7]

"More than 1,000 counties in 26 states are being named natural-disaster areas, the biggest such declaration ever by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as drought grips the Midwest."

Agriculture [8]
Climate Change [9]
Disasters [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Bloomberg [11], 07/13/2012
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"Midwest Drought Slashes US Corn Estimate, Jolts Market" [12]

"WASHINGTON -- The worst Midwest drought in a quarter century is doing more damage to U.S. crops than previously expected with the government on Wednesday slashing its estimate for what was supposed to be a record harvest."

Agriculture [8]
Disasters [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Reuters [13], 07/13/2012
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"Groups: U.S. Shares 'Mindset' Behind Japan's Nuclear Disaster" [14]

"WASHINGTON, DC -- The same 'man-made' problems underlying last year's nuclear disaster in Japan exist today in the United States, warn five U.S. groups responding to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission's report to Japan's Diet, or parliament."

Disasters [3]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [15]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: ENS [16], 07/13/2012
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"San Onofre Nuclear Plant Problem Worse Than Thought: Report" [17]

"LOS ANGELES -- US nuclear regulators published an update on California's troubled San Onofre power plant Thursday, sparking an expert warning that the problem is more serious than first thought."

Disasters [3]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [15]
Public [4]
California [18]
Source: AFP [19], 07/13/2012
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Coal Ash: Has It Come to a Storage or Disposal Site Near You? [20]

If your local utility burns coal, there is likely an environmental story about coal ash to be reported near you. A FOIA request by the Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice has produced the identities of another 451 coal ash dumps (than previously listed by EPA), raising the total to at least 1161.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat: 
Water & Oceans [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Disasters [3]
Chemicals [2]
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Public [4]
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"Chihuahua: Where the Rain Doesn't Fall Any More" [24]

"A record drought in northern Mexico has prompted warnings that the region's climate may have changed for good."

Agriculture [8]
Climate Change [9]
Disasters [3]
Public [4]
Mexico [25]
Source: Independent [26], 07/11/2012
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"Ohio Freight Train Derails, Causing Fiery Blast" [27]

"COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A freight train derailment and explosion in Columbus, Ohio, has authorities evacuating a mile-wide area of the city as they try to contain the blaze and determine what's burning."

Disasters [3]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Source: AP [28], 07/11/2012
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"Firm Blamed In The Costliest Onshore Oil Spill Ever" [29]

"Two years ago this month, an oil pipeline burst in Michigan, contaminating 38 miles of the Kalamazoo River. It didn't get much national notice because everyone was focused on the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico."

Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Pollution [30]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [10]
Canada [31]
Source: NPR [32], 07/11/2012
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"Global Warming Makes Heat Waves More Likely, Study Finds" [33]

"Some of the weather extremes bedeviling people around the world have become far more likely because of human-induced global warming, researchers reported on Tuesday. Yet they ruled it out as a cause of last year’s devastating floods in Thailand, one of the most striking weather events of recent years."

Climate Change [9]
Disasters [3]
Public [4]
International [34]
Source: NY Times [35], 07/11/2012
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