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Study Finds Higher Risk from Soot [1]

A new look at the data shows that mortality among people exposed to tiny soot particles is twice as high as previously thought.

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Source: NYTimes [5], 06/03/2009

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Bate and Switch [6]

A little-known figure at the American Enterprise institute has been involved for years in discrediting established science to push an anti-regulatory agenda.

Activism [7]

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Source: NRNS [8], 06/02/2009

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Old-Fashioned Reporting Turns Good Stories to Gold [9]

By MIKE DUNNE

Two members of the Society of Environmental Journalists honored recently for their investigative reporting efforts say that digging through records and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting helped them make good stories great.

Ken Ward Jr. of The Charleston Gazette was the winner of the Scripps Howard Edward Meeman Award for environmental reporting – the third time he was so honored. His winning work focused on a coal silo permit that should not have been issued and was revoked thanks to his reporting.

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Climate-Change Skeptics In Europe? Mostly Missing In Action [11]

By PAUL D. THACKER

Where are the global warming skeptics in Europe?

If you canvas a wide variety of news (what journalist doesn't?) and read some newspapers in Europe, you'll notice something about their coverage of global warming: no skeptics. That's right. The media coverage of high-profile global warming skeptics is pretty much an American phenomenon, according to some noted journalists who cover the issue outside the United States.

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Climate Change [12]

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The Beat: Leaking Gas Tanks And Chemical Pollution Are Common Focus [14]

Ever wonder what lies beneath your feet – what's down there in the ground on which we walk? The Toledo Blade's Tom Henry has an editor who asked that question and the result was an interesting look at what the government is doing – or not doing – to clean up gasoline spills from leaky underground tanks.

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Chemicals [15]

Pollution [16]

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Book Shelf, Book 3- The River Of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey [17]

Teddy's luckless, little-known trip makes a riveting tale

THE RIVER OF DOUBT: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S DARKEST JOURNEY
By Candice Millard
Doubledy, $26

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Book Shelf, Book 2- The Winds Of Change: Climate, Weather, And The Destruction Of Civilization [18]

Climate change scientist paints a stark and vivid picture

THE WINDS OF CHANGE: CLIMATE, WEATHER AND THE DESTRUCTION OF CIVILIZATIONS By Eugene Linden
Simon & Schuster, $26

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Climate Change [12]

Fish & Fisheries [19]

Economy & Business [20]

Consumer [21]

Disasters [22]

Energy & Fuel [23]

Environmental Studies [24]

Food [25]

Forests [26]

Health [27]

Government [28]

Environmental Politics [29]

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Book Shelf, Book 1 - Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People And The Environment [30]

Exploring the legacy of dams and human delusions of grandeur

DEEP WATER: THE EPIC STRUGGLE OVER DAMS, DISPLACED PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT Jacques Leslie
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, $15.75

Reviewed by NANCY BAZILCHUK

A dam may not be forever, even if constructions like the Hoover Dam are expected to survive for a thousand years. A dam's environmental and social impacts, though, are enormous, extensive and essentially irreversible.

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Water & Oceans [31]

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From Environmental Fiction to Top Investigative Awards [32]

By JACKLEEN de La HARPE

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"DC Gets Tough On Disposable Bags" [33]

The District of Columbia's city council is poised to tax disposable plastic and paper bags and to use the revenue to clean up the trash-strewn Anacostia River.

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