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Coal-Waste Impoundment Database Offers Journalists a Tool [1]

A cooperative effort of federal and state agencies, coal companies, and environmental groups, the database lists coal-waste impoundments in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Energy & Fuel [3]
Pollution [4]
Waste [5]
Region: 
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
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Public [9]
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EPA Relents, Releases List of 44 High-Hazard Coal-Ash Ponds [10]

FOIA requests and Congressional pressure got the Obama administration to reverse its decision to withhold key information about dangers to communities from coal-ash ponds operated by electric utilities.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [11]
Disasters [12]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
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Public [9]
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"Food, Inc. Exposes Industry's Secrets" [14]

"A new film documentary that's hitting theaters now looks at the underbelly of the food industry."
Food [15]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Environment Report [16], 07/01/2009
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Kansas Coal Plant Deal Unraveling? [17]

Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson revived a Sunflower Electric coal-fired power plant when he replaced Katherine Sibelius. Now that deal may be unraveling.
Environmental Politics [18]
Public [9]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [19]
Source: SolveClimate [20], 07/01/2009
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"'Last Man Standing' at Wake for a Toxic Town" [21]

Residents say goodbye to Picher, Oklahoma, a town undermined and polluted by mining operations.
Pollution [4]
Public [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [22]
Source: CNN [23], 07/01/2009
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"El Nino Seems All But Certain: Australia" [24]

"An El Nino weather pattern this year appears almost certain, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said on Wednesday in a revised forecast, raising the prospect of drought in Australia and a even weaker monsoon in India."
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [9]
International [26]
Source: Reuters [27], 07/01/2009
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Conservative Ire Rains on 8 'Aye' Republicans [28]

"In the wake of last week's landmark passage of the House climate bill, conservatives have focused their fury on the handful of Republicans who voted in favor of the sweeping legislation."
Environmental Politics [18]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [29], 07/01/2009
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Bill Seeks To Protect Drinking Wells from Fracking [30]

"A bill introduced earlier this month would bring federal oversight of hydraulic fracturing fluids -- chemical mixtures pumped at high pressure into oil and gas wells in order to unlock deposits trapped deep underground."
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [31], 07/01/2009
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"Should Renewable Energy Include Nuclear?" [32]

"The US, China, and dozens of other countries are meeting [this week] in Egypt to chart the course of a new international agency aimed at promoting renewable energy."
Energy & Fuel [3]
Public [9]
International [26]
Source: Christian Science Monitor [33], 07/01/2009
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"Reactor Design Puts Safety of Nuclear Plants Into Question" [34]

"Canadian nuclear safety regulators say they have underestimated the seriousness of a design feature at the country's electricity-producing reactors that would cause them to experience dangerous power pulses during a major accident."
Nuclear Power & Radiation [35]
Public [9]
Canada [36]
Source: Globe & Mail [37], 07/01/2009
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