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"Report Cannot Link Lejeune Water to Diseases" [1]

A National Research Council report says it may be impossible to know whether contaminated drinking water at the Camp Lejeune Marine base caused birth defects and illness among people seeking $33.9 billion in claims.
Chemicals [2]
Public [3]
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Source: Raleigh News & Observer [5], 06/15/2009

"Dredged Mud Can Save Louisiana Coast, State Says" [6]

If the Army Corps of Engineers and private companies used all the mud they dredge from wetlands and waterway to rebuild Louisiana coastal marshes, it would be a boon for coastal restoration.
Natural Resources [7]
Public [3]
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Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [8], 06/15/2009

Troubling Predictions Come True For Reporter And Friends [9]

 

 By KATINA GAUDET 

"We have a different fear of hurricanes."

My friend Yasmin was trying to rationalize her fearlessness in the face of an imposing Hurricane Katrina, expected to make landfall near New Orleans the next day, from her first-floor Uptown apartment.

But I was having difficulty, although safe in a hotel room near Memphis. I was frantic, yelling into the phone at Yasmin, "You cannot stay there."

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Disasters [10]
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Public [3]

Book Shelf, Book 3- America's Wetland: Louisiana' s Vanishing Coast [11]

 

 AMERICA'S WETLAND: LOUISIANA'S VANISHING COAST
 Photographs by Bevil Knapp, text by Mike Dunne Louisiana State 
University Press, $39.95

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Journalism & Media [12]
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Public [3]

"Court Won't Hear Suit on Camp Lejeune Water" [13]

"The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a Marine's lawsuit blaming the government's dumping of toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina for his son's illnesses."
Pollution [14]
Public [3]
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Source: AP [15], 06/10/2009

New Trails Are in 13 States [16]

Twenty-two new National Recreational Trails, covering more than 525 miles, provide a good opportunity to cover outdoor recreation topics.
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TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat: 
Planning & Growth [18]
Natural Resources [7]
Region: 
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [19]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [20]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [4]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [22]
California [23]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [24]
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Public [3]

Bill To "Poison" Tennesee Streams Falls One Vote Short [25]

"Legislation allowing more selenium to be released into Tennessee streams fell one vote short of passage Wednesday after lawmakers were told approval would mean poisoning the state's waters to help coal company win a lawsuit attacking its pollution."
Pollution [14]
Public [3]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [4]
Source: Knoxville News [26], 06/04/2009

"Black Tide" [27]

"Just days before Christmas last year, an environmental disaster one hundred times the size of the Exxon Valdez (yes, you read that right) unfolded on a riverbank in eastern Tennessee. A wave of poisonous sludge buried a town…along with the myth of clean coal."
Pollution [14]
Public [3]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [4]
Source: GQ [28], 06/04/2009

Camp Lejeune Vets Suffer from Water [29]

"Camp Lejeune, a sprawling Marine base on the North Carolina seaboard, is the site of what some scientists call the worst public drinking-water contamination in the nation's history."
Pollution [14]
Public [3]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [4]
Source: St. Petersburg Times [30], 06/01/2009

Fighting For The Control Of A River [31]

A power struggle has erupted over a North Carolina river.
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [3]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [4]
Source: Environment Report [33], 05/29/2009

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