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Coal-Waste Impoundment Database Offers Journalists a Tool [1]

A cooperative effort of federal and state agencies, coal companies, and environmental groups, the database lists coal-waste impoundments in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
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Public [9]

"'Last Man Standing' at Wake for a Toxic Town" [10]

Residents say goodbye to Picher, Oklahoma, a town undermined and polluted by mining operations.
Pollution [4]
Public [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [11]
Source: CNN [12], 07/01/2009

Florida Lets Sewage Sludge Foul Everglades: Critics [13]

Environmentalists say Florida officials are thwarting a 2-year-old law banning the spreading of sewage sludge on the Everglades.
Pollution [4]
Public [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: Orlando Sentinel [14], 06/30/2009
October 6, 2009 to October 7, 2009

Gearing Up for a Low Carbon Economy [15]

The Canadian Institute's conference will offer an in-depth look at how Canadian and U.S. carbon initiatives compare and contrast, and the most up-to-date carbon policy information from both sides of the border.
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Economy & Business [19]
Planning & Growth [20]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Forests [21]
Natural Resources [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [4]
Waste [5]
Water & Oceans [24]
Government [25]
Policy [26]
Technology [27]
Journalism & Media [28]
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Canada [29]
National (U.S.) [30]

Ameren Plans Huge Cleanup in Galesburg, IL [31]

"AmerenIP hopes to begin a massive environmental clean-up at the former site of McCabe Scrap Iron & Materials Co. [in Galesburg, Ill.,] by September or October. Galesburg Gas Light & Coke Co. produced gas beginning in 1861 at the 3-acre site, with coal tar as a waste product."
Pollution [4]
Public [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [7]
Source: Galesburg Register-Mail [32], 06/29/2009

Contaminated Kansas Ghost Town [33]

The century of mining that built Treece, Kansas, has left it a toxic ghost town. EPA says the residential areas have been cleaned up, but Sen. Pat Roberts is poised to file a bill to buy out residents if EPA does not spend stimulus money to do so.
Pollution [4]
Public [9]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [34]
Source: Wichita Eagle [35], 06/29/2009

"EPA Says Monsanto Mine Violates Law" [36]

"Federal regulators said Thursday an Idaho mine that Monsanto Co. depends on to make its Roundup weed killer has violated federal and state water quality laws almost since it opened, sending selenium and other heavy metals into the region's waterways."
Pollution [4]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: AP [37], 06/26/2009

"In the Andes, a Toxic Site" [38]

From an immense mansion in the Hamptons, Ira Rennert oversees a private industrial empire that includes one of the most toxic sites in the world.
Pollution [4]
Public [9]
International [39]
Source: NYTimes [40], 06/25/2009

North American Toxics Data Released [41]

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation, which is a joint effort of Canada, the US, and Mexico, released on June 10, 2009, its annual report tracking and comparing toxic emissions.
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Climate Change [17]
Air [43]
Chemicals [44]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Pollution [4]
Region: 
Canada [29]
National (U.S.) [30]
Mexico [45]
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Public [9]

EPA To Announce Proposed NO2 Standard [46]

After several years of preparatory work, EPA is expected to announce by June 26, 2009, its proposed primary standard for one of the six "criteria" air pollutants, nitrogen dioxide.

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