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January 25, 2013

The Year Ahead in Environment and Energy: Stories to Watch in 2013 [1]

A panel of veteran journalists, hosted by SEJ and the Wilson Center's Environmental Change & Security Program, will offer their thoughts on what will be the biggest environment and energy stories in the U.S. and around the world on January 25, 3-5 p.m. in Washington, DC (also available via webcast). Bloomberg BNA's Director of Environmental News John Sullivan will kick off the discussion with an overview of the key legislative, regulatory, and legal developments expected in 2013. Margie Kriz Hobson of E&E Publishing's EnergyWire will moderate the panel.

SEJ Regional Conferences [2]
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Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [9]

The Year Ahead in Environment and Energy: Stories to Watch in 2013 [10]

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A panel of veteran journalists, hosted by SEJ and the Wilson Center's Environmental Change & Security Program, offered their thoughts on what will be the biggest environment and energy stories in the U.S. and around the world on January 25, 2013, in Washington, DC. The event was webcast live. The archived webcast is available here [11]. Bloomberg BNA's Director of Environmental News John Sullivan kicked off the discussion with an overview of the key legislative, regulatory, and legal developments expected in 2013. Margie Kriz Hobson of E&E Publishing's EnergyWire moderated the panel.
 

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Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
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Public [3]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [9]

"Chesapeake Bay’s Health Improving Slightly, Report Says" [12]

"Chesapeake Bay oysters are being resurrected from the dead. Blue crabs are roaring back. And after taking a huge blow from the monster storm called Sandy, the weakened bay proved in the fall that it could right itself and come back looking fresh."

Fish & Fisheries [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [9]
Source: Wash Post [15], 01/04/2013

Maryland Law Banning Arsenic in Chicken Feed Takes Effect [16]

"With the new year, Maryland becomes the first state to ban the use of additives containing arsenic in chicken feed, a practice already prohibited by Canada and the European Union."

Food [17]
Environmental Health [5]
Chemicals [18]
Agriculture [19]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [9]
Source: Wash Post [20], 01/02/2013

Potomac Riverkeeper Merrifield Nears Retirement [21]

"Friends say he has the vigor of a younger man, but Ed Merrifield knows the truth. He is tiring at age 65, and ready to give up his demanding third career as the Potomac riverkeeper."

Environmental Politics [6]
People & Population [22]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [9]
Source: Wash Post [23], 12/31/2012

"Deep Disposal Well Fight Comes To Small Town" [24]

"A signature battle of the energy boom, a public fight over a waste-water deep disposal well, plays out amid scientific uncertainty over safety in a small town."

Environmental Politics [6]
Pollution [25]
Science [26]
Waste [27]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [9]
Source: USA TODAY [28], 12/17/2012

"On Anacostia, Some Don't Catch Tainted-Fish Warning" [29]

Many anglers who pull fish out of the Anacostia River near Washington, DC, eat them despire health warnings.

Environmental Health [5]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [9]
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/2012/12/16/da5a2aa0-455e-11e2-9648-a2c323a991d… [30], 12/17/2012

Coal Slurry Database May Help Reporters Find Problem Impoundments [31]

A fatal November 30, 2012, collapse of part of a coal-slurry impoundment in West Virginia served as a reminder of safety issues that may not be adequately regulated in some states and localities. You can locate local coal-slurry impoundments and information on their status with an online public database.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [32]
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Journalism & Media [7]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Disasters [33]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [9]
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Pennsylvania Newspapers Get Break in Fracking Disclosure Case [34]

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was joined by the Washington (PA) Observer-Reporter in a suit to unseal records of the July 2011 settlement of a case in which a family had sued four natural gas companies over damages they claimed were caused by hydraulic fracturing. The appeals court said a lower court had erred in throwing out the newspapers' case.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [32]
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Journalism & Media [7]
Energy & Fuel [4]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [9]
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Public [3]

"W.Va. Works To Reopen Interstate After Explosion" [35]

"Contractors worked throughout the night to remove and replace an 800-foot swath of Interstate 77 that turned from asphalt to cinder in a massive natural gas line explosion that also flattened four homes and damaged five more but caused no deaths."

Disasters [33]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [9]
Source: AP [36], 12/12/2012

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