"Savannah River Site Authorized To Close Nuclear Waste Storage Tanks" [1]
"Savannah River Site will permanently seal in place more Cold War-era storage tanks after removing highly radioactive liquid nuclear waste."
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"Savannah River Site will permanently seal in place more Cold War-era storage tanks after removing highly radioactive liquid nuclear waste."
"A series of severe storms - including tornadoes - touched down in three southern states Tuesday, killing four people, damaging homes and businesses, flipping cars, knocking down trees, and downing power lines."
"On Thursday, the Southern Environmental Law Center, representing the Sierra Club, sent notice to Dominion Virginia Power of their intention to bring suit under the Clean Water Act to clean up leaking coal ash pits at the Chesapeake Energy Center (CEC) on the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River in Chesapeake, Virginia."
"BISCAYNE NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — For 15 years, officials, environmentalists, fishermen and boaters have struggled to put together a plan to protect one of South Florida’s jewels — a national park, almost entirely underwater, where a part of the largest reef tract in the United States lures throngs of divers and anglers who fish its once-abundant grouper and snapper."
"Rebuilding Louisiana's coast, including the rapidly eroding Mississippi River delta, should be the main use of billions of dollars in expected BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill fine and restoration money, according to two reports released Tuesday by the National Wildlife Federation and a coalition of national and Louisiana environmental groups."
"The state hopes to save its rapidly disappearing coastline with a 50-year, $50 billion plan based on science that’s never been tested and money it doesn’t have. What could go wrong?"
"A new study says oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is still trapped in Alabama's beaches four years later."
"CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The city of Charlotte is still trying to recover from one of the worst catastrophes in the city's history."
"Kentucky environmental advocates accused state regulators today of lax enforcement of water quality rules while putting a mining company on notice that they intend to sue over claims of thousands of false pollution reports during the last year."
"Conservation groups have filed initial paperwork to sue the Tennessee Valley Authority, contending that harmful pollutants have been seeping from 55-year-old coal ash storage ponds at the Gallatin power plant and into drinking water."
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/savannah-river-site-authorized-close-nuclear-waste-storage-tanks
[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/nuclear-power/radiation
[3] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast
[5] http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2014-12-23/savannah-river-site-authorized-close-nuclear-waste-storage-tanks-h-area
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/tornadoes-rip-across-southeast-leave-4-dead
[7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[8] http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/12/23/severe-weather-southeast/20804403/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/enviros-will-sue-end-dominion-coal-ash-pollution-elizabeth-river
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
[11] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[12] http://augustafreepress.com/selc-sierra-club-seek-end-decades-dominion-coal-ash-pollution-elizabeth-river/
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/protecting-home-where-puffer-fish-roam-biscayne-national-park
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land
[15] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/us/protecting-a-home-where-the-puffer-fish-roam-in-biscayne-national-park.html
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/la-restoration-should-get-top-priority-bp-spill-fine-money-enviros
[17] http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/12/bp_oil_spill_money_projects.html#incart_river
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/louisiana%E2%80%99s-moon-shot
[19] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[20] https://projects.propublica.org/larestoration/
[21] https://www.sej.org/headlines/deepwater-horizon-spill-oil-still-trapped-alabama-beaches-study
[22] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[23] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/02/oil-spill-alabama-beaches_n_6254866.html?utm_hp_ref=green
[24] https://www.sej.org/headlines/charlotte-struggles-cleanup-pcbs-major-dumping-incident
[25] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics
[26] http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/special-reports/9-investigates-pcb-cleanup-heavy-burden-city/nh84d/
[27] https://www.sej.org/headlines/groups-allege-28000-mining-violations-lax-enforcement
[28] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism
[29] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[30] http://www.courier-journal.com/story/watchdog-earth/2014/11/17/environmentalists-accuse-kentucky-of-failing-to-catch-mining-violations/19190761/
[31] https://www.sej.org/headlines/environmentalists-threaten-sue-over-coal-ash-tva-gallatin-plant
[32] http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/environment/2014/11/10/environmentalists-threaten-sue-gallatin-plant/18831487/
[33] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast?page=114
[34] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast?page=111
[35] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast?page=112
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[41] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast?page=177