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"Pennsylvania To Regulate Salt Discharges" [1]

"The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is working to regulate salt discharges that result from natural-gas drilling."
Energy & Fuel [2]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [4]
Source: ES&T [5], 07/09/2009

Feds Fault WV Oversight of Mining Flood Prevention [6]

"West Virginia regulators and coal operators have not properly implemented state rules meant to keep strip mining from contributing to flooding during heavy rains over narrow mountain hollows, according to a new federal report."
Disasters [7]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [4]
Source: Charleston Gazette [8], 07/03/2009

Rockefeller Introduces Bill To Outlaw Bayer Chem-Secrecy Ruse [9]

Rockefeller's bill keeps FOIA exemptions for real security information, but forbids using the "sensitive security information" stamp.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [11]
Disasters [7]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [4]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

Coal-Waste Impoundment Database Offers Journalists a Tool [14]

A cooperative effort of federal and state agencies, coal companies, and environmental groups, the database lists coal-waste impoundments in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Energy & Fuel [2]
Pollution [15]
Waste [16]
Region: 
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
July 16, 2009 to July 18, 2009

McCormick Tribune Specialized Reporting Institute on the Media and Nuclear Power Issues [19]

All-expense-paid workshop for student (and professional) environmental writers on covering nuclear power--University of Tennessee.
Workshops and Fellowships [20]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Energy & Fuel [2]
Region: 
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [4]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]

NASA's Hansen Arrested at WV Mine Protest [21]

"More than 30 people -- including actress Daryl Hannah and NASA climate scientist James Hansen -- were arrested Tuesday in the latest protest in a growing civil disobedience campaign against mountaintop removal in Southern West Virginia."
06/24/2009
Activism [22]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [4]
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Agreement Reached on Fort Meade Clean-Up [23]

The Army has finally agreed to an enforceable timetable for cleaning up Superfund sites at Fort Meade in Maryland.
Pollution [15]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [4]
Source: Baltimore Sun [24], 06/23/2009
October 5, 2009 to October 9, 2009

AMA Conference on Radar Meteorology [25]

An American Meteorological Society meeting.
Professional Meetings [26]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [27]
Disasters [7]
Science [28]
Technology [29]
Region: 
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [4]
September 17, 2009

Ground Source Heating and Cooling for Residential and Commercial Properties [30]

Latest technologies, economic advantages, environmental impacts and regulations.
Professional Meetings [26]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Energy & Fuel [2]
Region: 
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [4]

WV DEP Won't Expand Slurry Injection Moratorium [31]

West Virginia's "Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman said Wednesday his agency is continuing to allow coal slurry to be injected underground at 13 locations in West Virginia, despite being unable to tell lawmakers if the process is safe."
Waste [16]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [4]
Source: Charleston Gazette [32], 06/18/2009

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