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Old-Fashioned Reporting Turns Good Stories to Gold [1]

By MIKE DUNNE

Two members of the Society of Environmental Journalists honored recently for their investigative reporting efforts say that digging through records and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting helped them make good stories great.

Ken Ward Jr. of The Charleston Gazette was the winner of the Scripps Howard Edward Meeman Award for environmental reporting – the third time he was so honored. His winning work focused on a coal silo permit that should not have been issued and was revoked thanks to his reporting.

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Journalism & Media [2]
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The Beat: Leaking Gas Tanks And Chemical Pollution Are Common Focus [5]

Ever wonder what lies beneath your feet – what's down there in the ground on which we walk? The Toledo Blade's Tom Henry has an editor who asked that question and the result was an interesting look at what the government is doing – or not doing – to clean up gasoline spills from leaky underground tanks.

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Chemicals [6]
Pollution [7]
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Book Shelf, Book 3- The River Of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey [8]

 

 Teddy's luckless, little-known trip makes a riveting tale

THE RIVER OF DOUBT: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S DARKEST JOURNEY
 By Candice Millard  
 Doubledy, $26

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Journalism & Media [2]
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Book Shelf, Book 2- The Winds Of Change: Climate, Weather, And The Destruction Of Civilization [9]

 

 Climate change scientist paints a stark and vivid picture

THE WINDS OF CHANGE: CLIMATE, WEATHER AND THE DESTRUCTION OF CIVILIZATIONS By Eugene Linden 
Simon & Schuster, $26

Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Consumer [13]
Disasters [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Studies [16]
Food [17]
Forests [18]
Health [19]
Government [20]
Environmental Politics [21]
Journalism & Media [2]
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Book Shelf, Book 1 - Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People And The Environment [22]

Exploring the legacy of dams and human delusions of grandeur

DEEP WATER: THE EPIC STRUGGLE OVER DAMS, DISPLACED PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT Jacques Leslie 
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, $15.75

Reviewed by NANCY BAZILCHUK 

A dam may not be forever, even if constructions like the Hoover Dam are expected to survive for a thousand years. A dam's environmental and social impacts, though, are enormous, extensive and essentially irreversible.

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Water & Oceans [23]
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From Environmental Fiction to Top Investigative Awards [24]

 

By JACKLEEN de La HARPE

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"Cigarettes Without Smoke, or Regulation" [25]

'Electonic cigarettes, which offer a dose of vaporized nicotine to be inhaled from a tube that looks like a cigarette, may offer a less dangerous way for smokers to quit -- or stay addicted. But the mostly made-in-China devices are largely unstudied and unregulated.
Health [19]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [3]
Source: NYTimes [26], 06/02/2009

Duke Ordered To Close Indiana Coal Units [27]

"A federal judge in Indianapolis has ordered Duke Energy Corp. to shut down nearly 40 percent of an Indiana power plant's capacity as part of an enforcement case that dates back to the Clinton administration."
Air [28]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [3]
Source: Greenwire [29], 06/02/2009

"What’s Next for the Chevy Volt?" [30]

GM is saying that despite its bankruptcy the plug-in hybrid Volt still has the greenlight for a 2010 launch. But does it?
Energy & Fuel [15]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [3]
Source: Reuters [31], 06/02/2009

"Judge Orders New Plan for Dam Releases into Grand Canyon" [32]

"Federal officials must reconsider the irregular water releases from Glen Canyon Dam, which may harm the humpback chub, an endangered fish."
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [3]
Source: LA Times [33], 06/01/2009

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