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Diesel Spill Leaves 12,000 Residents in W. Va. Without Drinking Water [1]

"A diesel fuel spill has left about 12,000 people in south-eastern West Virginia without drinking water."
 

Environmental Health [2]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [6]
Source: AP [7], 01/27/2015
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"White House to Propose Allowing Oil Drilling off Atlantic Coast" [8]

"The Obama administration on Tuesday will announce a proposal to open up coastal waters from Virginia to Georgia for oil and gas drilling, according to a person briefed on the plan."

Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NY Times [12], 01/27/2015
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Some Homes Near Montana Oil Spill Report Dark Ooze Coming Out Of Taps [13]

"Residents of a Montana town whose water supply was tainted by an oil pipeline rupture last week got the all-clear on Friday to turn taps back on, though some reported brown or black material spurting from faucets even after their pipes were flushed."

Energy & Fuel [9]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [14]
Source: Reuters [15], 01/26/2015
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Swimming with a New Tide [16]

  

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Environmental Health [2]
Journalism & Media [18]
Water & Oceans [4]
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Public [5]
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City Scrambles for Clean Water After Yellowstone Pipeline Spill [19]

"A second large oil spill into Montana's Yellowstone River in less than four years is reviving questions about oversight of the nation's aging pipeline network."

Energy & Fuel [9]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [14]
Source: AP [20], 01/22/2015
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"Century Later, the ‘Chinatown’ Water Feud Ebbs" [21]

"For 24 years, traveling across the stark and dusty moonscape of what once was a glimmering 110-square-mile lake framed by snow-covered mountains, Ted Schade was a general in the Owens Valley water wars with Los Angeles. This was where Los Angeles began taking water for its own use nearly a century ago, leaving behind a dry lake bed that choked the valley with dust, turning it into one of the most polluted parts of the nation.
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Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
California [22]
Source: NY Times [23], 01/21/2015
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"Plan Targets Farmers in 3 States To Reduce Lake Erie Algae" [24]

"Farmers in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana are being asked to be part of the solution in fixing the algae problem in Lake Erie. Federal officials on Friday outlined a program that will make $17.5 million available to farmers who take steps to reduce the pollutants that wash away from the fields and help the algae thrive."

Agriculture [25]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [26]
Source: AP [27], 01/20/2015
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"Invasive Snails Pose Threat To Great Lakes Waterfowl" [28]

"An invasive snail in the Great Lakes may pose a larger threat to waterfowl than previously thought."

Water & Oceans [4]
Wildlife [29]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [26]
Source: AP [30], 01/20/2015
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"Vermont Farms Fret Over New Sanctions For Water Pollution" [31]

"Environmentalists are giving Gov. Peter Shumlin early accolades for his proposal to reduce the amount of phosphorus running into Lake Champlain. But a prominent agriculture group says the plan to clean up the lake might end up hurting the farms that operate near it."

Agriculture [25]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [32]
Source: Vermont Public Radio [33], 01/20/2015
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"Montana Pipeline Spill Spurs Drinking Water Advisory" [34]

"Truckloads of drinking water are expected to begin arriving Tuesday in an eastern Montana city where thousands of residents have been told not to drink from their taps following an oil spill along the Yellowstone River."

Disasters [35]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [14]
Source: AP [36], 01/20/2015
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