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"BP Wins Approval for New Deep-Water Drilling in Gulf of Mexico" [1]

"BP won approval from the Interior Department to drill its first exploratory oil well in the Gulf of Mexico since the blowout of its Macondo well a year and a half ago touched off the country's worst offshore environmental disaster."

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Source: McClatchy-Tribune [6], 10/27/2011
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Japanese Plate Tells You If Your Sushi Is Radioactive [7]

"The Fukushima Plate is tableware with its own built-in safety mechanism. Underneath the plate is a radiation meter that logs whether your sushi has absorbed too much seaborne radiation from the Fukushima disaster earlier this year."

Disasters [3]
Fish & Fisheries [8]
Food [9]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [10]
Public [4]
International [11]
Source: London Daily Mail [12], 10/26/2011
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"China, Taiwan Sign Cross-Strait Nuclear Safety Accord" [13]

"TIANJIN, China -- China and Taiwan have agreed to cooperate on nuclear safety in the aftermath of Japan's nuclear crisis."

Disasters [3]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [10]
Public [4]
International [11]
Source: ENS [14], 10/26/2011
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"Rina Strengthens, Aims at Mexico Coastal Resorts" [15]

"CANCUN, Mexico -- Authorities evacuated fishing communities on Mexico's resort-studded Caribbean coast and some tourists began to leave, as Hurricane Rina took aim at Cancun and the island of Cozumel on Wednesday."

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Central America & the Caribbean [16]
Source: AP [17], 10/26/2011
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"Nigerians Seek $1 Billion From Shell Over Oil Spills" [18]

"ABUJA -- A Nigerian community from the oil-rich Niger Delta has filed a lawsuit in the United States seeking $1 billion in compensation from Anglo-Dutch oil major Shell for decades of pollution caused by oil spills."

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International [11]
Source: Reuters [19], 10/25/2011
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"State: PG&E Could Have 'Junked' Pipe in Its System" [20]

"SAN BRUNO, Calif. -- State regulators have uncovered evidence that suggests Pacific Gas and Electric Co. installed 'salvaged or junked transmission pipe' on its natural-gas system in the 1940s and '50s, raising fears that a problem like the one that caused the San Bruno disaster could be lurking undetected, officials said in a regulatory filing Wednesday.

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National (U.S.) [5]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle [21], 10/21/2011
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"Chlorine Accidents Rupture Life for Workers, Townspeople" [22]

"Over the past 10 years, chlorine has been involved in hundreds of accidents nationwide, injuring thousands of workers and townspeople, and killing some. In one California town, more than a year after a chemical cloud forced them to run for their lives, the employees of a recycling business are back to work – but not back to normal."

Jane Kay reports for Environmental Health News October 20, 2011.
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Source: EHN [23], 10/21/2011
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SkyTruth Launches Online Environmental Accident Mapper [25]

Reporters can now get a better picture of breaking environmental pollution events via SkyTruth Alerts on air and water pollution incidents, toxic spills, and more.

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"Dust Storm Shrouds Texas City" [29]

"An enormous cloud hits Lubbock, where residents compare it to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The ongoing drought helped produce the storm, an expert says."

Molly Hennessy-Fiske reports for the Los Angeles Times October 18, 2011. [30]

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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [32]
Source: LA Times [30], 10/19/2011
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"Rand Paul's Switch Clears Way for Pipeline Bill" [33]

"The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a pipeline safety bill late Monday after a senator with strong Tea Party ties did an about-face - lifting a hold that had blocked the legislation for weeks and adding a provision that would close a regulatory loophole that drew widespread attention after the San Bruno disaster."

"The bill boosts the federal government's regulatory enforcement powers, calls for automatic shutoff valves for new pipelines and, thanks to last-minute language, ends an exemption from rigorous safety inspections for older natural-gas pipelines.

Disasters [3]
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Environmental Politics [34]
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National (U.S.) [5]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle [35], 10/19/2011
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