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"DOE Revives FutureGen, Reversing Bush-Era Decision" [1]

"The Obama administration gave conditional support today for a federal-industry partnership that would build an advanced coal-burning power plant in Illinois to trap and store carbon dioxide emissions, reversing a Bush-era decision to abandon the FutureGen project."

Energy & Fuel [2]

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Source: Greenwire [5], 06/15/2009

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"Communities at Risk, But Coal Ash Sites Secret" [6]

"Dozens of communities nationwide are at risk from a coal ash spill like the one that blanketed a Tennessee neighborhood last year, but the Obama administration has decided not to tell the public about it because of the danger of a terrorist attack."

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Source: AP [8], 06/15/2009

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Map Room [9]

List of collaborative maps created by members. To contribute or ask questions, contact the SEJ member listed.

Reporting Tools [10]

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Covering Penguins and the Politics of Denial [11]

Read excerpts from Bill Moyers' keynote address to the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists, Austin, Texas, October 1, 2005.

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Book Shelf, Book 3- A Spiritual Field Guide: Meditations for the Outdoors [13]

A SPIRITUAL FIELD GUIDE: MEDITATIONS FOR THE OUTDOORS
By Bernard Brady and Mark Neuzil
Brazos Press, $12.99

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Book Shelf, Book 1-The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker [14]

THE GRAIL BIRD: HOT ON THE TRAIL OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
By Tim Gallagher
Houghton Mifflin Company, $25

Reviewed by CHRISTINE HEINRICHS
The announcement of a confirmed sighting of the ivorybilled woodpecker in April 2005 was greeted like a confirmed extraterrestrial alien sighting. It was astonishing, contrary to accepted general wisdom, breathtaking.

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Book Shelf, Book 4- The Republican War on Science [15]

THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON SCIENCE
By Chris Mooney
Basic Books, $24.95

Reviewed by STUART LEAVENWORTH
Here's a news flash: President George Bush and some of his minions have targeted scientists who don't share their agenda. They have intimidated certain government researchers, reassigned those who cause trouble for key constituencies and discouraged an entire generation of biologists, climatologists and other professionals from ever working on the federal payroll.

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Environmental Politics [16]

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Troubling Predictions Come True For Reporter And Friends [17]

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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Can 'Sustainable' Branding Save the World? [19]

A five-day gathering of 650 marketing pros focuses on whether do-gooder marketing is the key to survival in a cut-throat economy. But are they merely 'greenwashing' the same old products?

Economy & Business [20]

Public [3]

National (U.S.) [4]

Source: Monterey Co. Weekly [21], 06/12/2009

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"Defending Fall Creek" [22]

Lawsuits and tree-sits are among the tactics that activists in the Eugene, Oregon, area are using to resist clearcutting of a patch of ancient forest under the BLM's Western Oregon Plan Revisions.

Activism [23]

Public [3]

Northwest (OR WA) [24]

Source: Eugene Weekly [25], 06/12/2009

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