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"No Safe Harbor: The Shipping Industry's Pollution Problem" [1]

"The shipping industry is an invisible and nearly unregulated environmental disaster."
Pollution [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: DC Bureau [5], 09/01/2009
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"Ky., Ind. Lead Nation in Coal Ash Ponds" [6]

"Indiana and Kentucky are the nation's top two states for coal ash ponds — and many of the holding basins for the toxic mess were built without the guidance of trained engineers, according to new information from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."
Pollution [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal [7], 09/01/2009
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"Northrop To Clean Up Calif. Water At Superfund Site" [8]

"Northrop Grumman Corp on Thursday reached a settlement with U.S. environmental regulators that requires the aerospace giant to spend about $21 million to clean up groundwater pollution dating from World War II manufacturing through the 1980s."
Pollution [2]
Public [3]
California [9]
Source: Reuters [10], 08/28/2009
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Florida: "EPA Agrees To Limit Fertilizer Pollution" [11]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to set limits on nutrient pollution blamed for turning Florida’s waters into algae-choked messes."
Pollution [2]
Public [3]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [12]
Source: Naples News [13], 08/27/2009
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EPA Releases Raw TRI Data Early [14]

The rawness of the data, which will be analyzed and revised by EPA at a later date, means that, for now, reporters will need to do more of their own ground-truthing in order to use it.
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WatchDog TipSheet [15]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [16]
Pollution [2]
Government [17]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
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"Chesapeake To Extend Public Water To Fly Ash Site" [18]

The city of Chesapeake, Va., will extend public water supply lines to residents around a golf course built on fly ash from a coal-burning utility. But the utility and city disagree on how much the utility will pay.
Pollution [2]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [19]
Source: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot [20], 08/26/2009
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Toxics-Burning NY Cement Kilns Exceed Federal Emissions Limits [21]

Blue-collar residents near New York's only hazardous waste incinerator worry about strange odors. An investigation showed the plant's emissions are not what they are supposed to be.
Pollution [2]
Public [3]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [22]
Source: Albany Times-Union [23], 08/24/2009
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"Forgotten Pesticide Dump Spurs Fears in Rural Nevada" [24]

Some residents are worried about a rural Nevada dump where decades of toxic refuse lie buried in shallow trenches.
Pollution [2]
Public [3]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [25]
Source: Reno Gazette Journal [26], 08/24/2009
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"Chevron Phillips Chemical Sued for Polluting Texas Air" [27]

"Sierra Club and Environment Texas filed an air pollution lawsuit today in federal district court against Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP. The groups claim that Chevron Phillips has repeatedly violated the Clean Air Act at its Cedar Bayou chemical plant in Baytown, Texas."
Pollution [2]
Public [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [28]
Source: ENS [29], 08/21/2009
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GM Dropout Endangers Vehicle Mercury Switch Recycling Program [30]

The Associated Press reports "GM says mercury pollution not its problem anymore," defaulting on its dues payments just as the US government's cash-for-clunkers program is causing the retirement of many older vehicles.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [31]
Topics on the Beat: 
Economy & Business [32]
Chemicals [16]
Pollution [2]
Waste [33]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [4]
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Public [3]
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/no-safe-harbor-the-shipping-industrys-pollution-problem [2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution [3] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81 [4] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [5] http://dcbureau.org/20090831252/NRNS-Stories/no-safe-harbor-the-shipping-industrys-pollution-problem-part-i-low-hanging-fruit.html [6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ky-ind-lead-nation-coal-ash-ponds [7] http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090831/GREEN/908310342/Ind. Ky. lead nation in ash ponds [8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/northrop-to-clean-up-calif-water-at-superfund-site [9] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/california [10] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/54430 [11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/florida-epa-agrees-to-limit-fertilizer-pollution [12] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast [13] http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/aug/21/epa-agrees-limit-fertilizer-pollution/ [14] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/epa-releases-raw-tri-data-early [15] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/watchdog-tipsheet [16] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [17] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government [18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chesapeake-to-extend-public-water-to-fly-ash-site [19] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mid-atlantic [20] http://hamptonroads.com/2009/08/chesapeake-extend-public-water-fly-ash-site [21] https://www.sej.org/headlines/toxics-burning-ny-cement-kilns-exceed-federal-emissions-limits [22] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast [23] http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=834139 [24] https://www.sej.org/headlines/forgotten-pesticide-dump-spurs-fears-rural-nevada [25] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mountain-west [26] http://www.rgj.com/article/20090823/NEWS/90821046/1321/news [27] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chevron-phillips-chemical-sued-polluting-texas-air [28] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southwest [29] http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2009/2009-08-19-091.asp [30] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/gm-dropout-endangers-vehicle-mercury-switch-recycling-program [31] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/tipsheet [32] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business [33] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/waste [34] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=790 [35] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=787 [36] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=788 [37] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=789 [38] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=792 [39] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=793 [40] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=794 [41] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=795 [42] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=803