"It’s The First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor In Decades." [1]
"In an immaculate control room at the Watts Bar nuclear plant, green bars flash on a large screen, signaling something that has not happened in the United States in two decades."
"In an immaculate control room at the Watts Bar nuclear plant, green bars flash on a large screen, signaling something that has not happened in the United States in two decades."
"Wildfire warnings were posted across parts of three Western U.S. states on Sunday as a heat wave baked the region in record, triple-digit temperatures, stoking flames in California from the coastal foothills outside Santa Barbara to desert brush near the Mexican border."
"YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK -- President Barack Obama mixed business with pleasure here Saturday, touting the importance of national parks and then seeing one up close for himself as he took in the sights at what is arguably the crown jewel of the national park system."
"When beavers build dams, they create reservoirs that store water and replenish groundwater supplies."
"The company asks a federal court in Texas to block the investigation by Massachusetts prosecutors, citing its constitutional rights."
"The Senate Appropriations Committee [Thursday] approved 16-14 a spending bill for the Interior Department, U.S. EPA and the Forest Service after adding money for wildfire fighting and rejecting a Democratic attempt to strike a dozen policy riders."
"Fueled by hot and dry weather, wildfires threatened homes in California and other Western states as crews struggled to corral flames that have scorched miles of brush and timber."
"The Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) board of directors voted unanimously on June 16 to close Fort Calhoun Station, the smallest nuclear power plant in the U.S., due to economic reasons."
"The number of women infected with the Zika virus during their pregnancies in the continental United States has risen to 234, health officials said on Thursday."
"One of the world’s largest coal companies, Peabody Energy, paid a prominent scientist and dozens of others to promote climate change denial, new documents reveal."
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[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/nuclear-power/radiation
[4] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/06/17/the-u-s-is-powering-up-its-first-new-nuclear-reactor-in-decades/?postshare=7911466184345530&tid=ss_tw
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/record-heat-sparks-warnings-boosts-fires-western-united-states
[8] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[9] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/forests
[11] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfires-idUSKCN0Z50MW
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama-gets-personal-yosemite-speech-long-hike
[13] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land
[15] http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article84694532.html
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/beavers-and-climate-resilience
[17] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[18] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/wildlife
[19] http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/06/beavers-and-climate-resilience/
[20] https://www.sej.org/headlines/exxon-sues-second-attorney-general-fight-climate-fraud-probe
[21] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media
[22] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[23] http://insideclimatenews.org/news/16062016/exxon-sues-massachusetts-attorney-general-climate-change-fraud-investigation
[24] https://www.sej.org/headlines/divided-panel-approves-rider-filled-interior-epa-bill
[25] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/policy
[26] http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060038950
[27] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fires-threatening-communities-around-west
[28] http://bigstory.ap.org/article/63fffbc09a61461895c9e1db5e5eda7b/fires-threatening-communities-around-west
[29] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fort-calhoun-nuclear-power-plant-close-year-end
[30] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business
[31] http://www.powermag.com/fort-calhoun-nuclear-power-plant-to-close-by-year-end/
[32] https://www.sej.org/headlines/cdc-reports-234-pregnant-women-us-zika
[33] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health
[34] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/health/zika-pregnancy-united-states-cdc.html
[35] https://www.sej.org/headlines/big-coal-funded-prominent-climate-change-denier-docs-reveal
[36] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science
[37] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roy-spencer-peabody-energy_us_57601e12e4b053d43306535e?ir=Green&section=us_green&utm_hp_ref=green
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[45] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national?page=1167
[46] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national?page=2251