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"Wyoming Community Blames Fracking for Water Woes" [1]

"PAVILLION, Wyo. ... residents outside this small rural, farming community blame their water woes -- and what they perceive to be the unusual health problems in their midst -- on hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking,' a common technique used in drilling new oil and gas wells."
Pollution [2]
Public [3]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [4]
Source: AP [5], 09/07/2009
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"Ford Settles N.J. Toxic Waste Lawsuit" [6]

"The Ford Motor Co. has settled a lawsuit filed by residents of a northern New Jersey town over toxic waste dumped there nearly 40 years ago."
Pollution [2]
Public [3]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [7]
Source: AP [8], 09/07/2009
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"No Safe Harbor: The Shipping Industry's Pollution Problem" [9]

"The shipping industry is an invisible and nearly unregulated environmental disaster."
Pollution [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: DC Bureau [11], 09/01/2009
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"Ky., Ind. Lead Nation in Coal Ash Ponds" [12]

"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.) [10]
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal [13], 09/01/2009
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"Northrop To Clean Up Calif. Water At Superfund Site" [14]

"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 [15]
Source: Reuters [16], 08/28/2009
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Florida: "EPA Agrees To Limit Fertilizer Pollution" [17]

"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) [18]
Source: Naples News [19], 08/27/2009
  • Read more about Florida: "EPA Agrees To Limit Fertilizer Pollution" [17]

EPA Releases Raw TRI Data Early [20]

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 [21]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [22]
Pollution [2]
Government [23]
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National (U.S.) [10]
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Public [3]
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"Chesapeake To Extend Public Water To Fly Ash Site" [24]

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) [25]
Source: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot [26], 08/26/2009
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Toxics-Burning NY Cement Kilns Exceed Federal Emissions Limits [27]

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) [7]
Source: Albany Times-Union [28], 08/24/2009
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"Forgotten Pesticide Dump Spurs Fears in Rural Nevada" [29]

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) [4]
Source: Reno Gazette Journal [30], 08/24/2009
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wyoming-community-blames-fracking-water-woes [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/mountain-west [5] http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gXGf4D9H5QU5Kt9h1HAQogvl4R2wD9AI1S701 [6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ford-settles-nj-toxic-waste-lawsuit [7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast [8] http://www.freep.com/article/20090904/BUSINESS01/90904067/1320/Ford-settles-N.J.-toxic-waste-lawsuit [9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/no-safe-harbor-the-shipping-industrys-pollution-problem [10] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [11] http://dcbureau.org/20090831252/NRNS-Stories/no-safe-harbor-the-shipping-industrys-pollution-problem-part-i-low-hanging-fruit.html [12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ky-ind-lead-nation-coal-ash-ponds [13] http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090831/GREEN/908310342/Ind. Ky. lead nation in ash ponds [14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/northrop-to-clean-up-calif-water-at-superfund-site [15] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/california [16] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/54430 [17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/florida-epa-agrees-to-limit-fertilizer-pollution [18] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast [19] http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/aug/21/epa-agrees-limit-fertilizer-pollution/ [20] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/epa-releases-raw-tri-data-early [21] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/watchdog-tipsheet [22] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [23] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government [24] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chesapeake-to-extend-public-water-to-fly-ash-site [25] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mid-atlantic [26] http://hamptonroads.com/2009/08/chesapeake-extend-public-water-fly-ash-site [27] https://www.sej.org/headlines/toxics-burning-ny-cement-kilns-exceed-federal-emissions-limits [28] http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=834139 [29] https://www.sej.org/headlines/forgotten-pesticide-dump-spurs-fears-rural-nevada [30] http://www.rgj.com/article/20090823/NEWS/90821046/1321/news [31] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=807 [32] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=804 [33] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=805 [34] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=806 [35] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=809 [36] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=810 [37] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=811 [38] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=812 [39] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution?page=821