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"Toxic Waste Trickles Toward New Mexico's Water Sources" [1]

"More than 60 years after scientists assembled the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, lethal waste is seeping from mountain burial sites and moving toward aquifers, springs and streams that provide water to 250,000 residents of northern New Mexico."

Pollution [2]
Public [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [4]
Source: LA Times [5], 11/03/2009
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"Cleaning Dirty Air Risks Costlier Arizona Water" [6]

"The Navajo Generating Station, the huge coal-fired power plant outside Page, supplies a fraction of Arizona's electricity demand, but its role in moving water to the state's largest cities has thrust it into a growing battle over the cost of cleaning up air pollution."

Energy & Fuel [7]
Public [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [4]
Source: Arizona Republic [8], 11/02/2009
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"Las Brisas Legal Showdown Starts Monday" [9]

"CORPUS CHRISTI — Las Brisas Energy Center and several environmental groups take to the courtroom this week to argue the details of the proposed power plant’s air permit."

Energy & Fuel [7]
Public [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [4]
Source: Corpus Christi Caller [10], 11/02/2009
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"Frisco Officials Fight Plans To Expand Lead Smelter" [11]

"Thousands of people in the heart of Frisco [Texas] are exposed to toxic lead pollution from a battery recycling plant that wants to expand production." City officials are opposing the expansion.

Pollution [2]
Public [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [4]
Source: Dallas News [12], 10/19/2009
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"Air Permit for Coal Power Plant on Navajo Land Sent Back to EPA" [13]

"The contested air permit for the Sithe Global Desert Rock coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico today was sent back to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for additional analysis."
Air [14]
Public [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [4]
Source: ENS [15], 09/29/2009
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"Texas Plan To Reduce Houston Smog May Not Be Enough" [16]

"Texas' new plan to improve the Houston area's famously dirty air may not meet federal limits for smog."
Air [14]
Public [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [4]
Source: Houston Chronicle [17], 09/24/2009
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Nukes mean mines: Are we digging a new toxic legacy before the last one’s filled in? [18]

Greg Harman of the San Antonio Current explores the legacy of uranium mining across South Texas as in-situ mining companies, milling outfits, and waste disposal crews prepare for a rebound in uranium prices. With San Antonio poised to lead one of the first nuclear-power expansions in the country, the writer suggests "the risks involved in uranium mining and processing should be a starting point for any debate about the promise and peril of nuclear power, yet it has received scant attention in San Antonio’s decision whether or not to partner in the expansion of the South Texas Project nuclear complex."
Nuclear Power & Radiation [19]
Public [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [4]
Source: San Antonio Current [20], 09/19/2009
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October 5, 2009 to October 8, 2009

10th Biennial Conference for Research on the Colorado Plateau [21]

Conservation Issues for Rapidly Changing Western Landscapes
Professional Meetings [22]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [23]
Food [24]
Natural Resources [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Biodiversity [27]
Region: 
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [28]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [4]
September 13, 2009 to September 16, 2009

2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting [29]

The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program encompasses a network of 26 sites ranging from tropical forests to polar deserts dedicated to understanding long-term ecological phenomena. The meeting program comprises seven plenary speakers, including an evening presentation on the pre-history of LTER.
Other Events [30]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Science [31]
Region: 
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [4]

Judge Orders USDA To Release Data on Wolf Program [32]

The locations of conflicts in New Mexico and Arizona between livestock and Mexican gray wolves, which were reintroduced in 1998, will now be made public in hopes of identifying problem areas and taking preventive steps.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [33]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [34]
Biodiversity [27]
Region: 
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [4]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
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