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"Texas Law Reducing Dam Inspections Sparks Criticism"

"DALLAS -- Texas has stopped inspecting 44% of the dams in the state, following passage last year of a state law that exempted most privately owned dams from safety requirements. Now, as a drought dries up large portions of the Southwest, some dam-safety experts and officials are questioning the law, saying the dry spell is leaving webs of cracks along the surface of earthen dams that may make them weaker—and prone to triggering floods—when rains eventually fill them up again."

Source: Wall St. Journal, 07/14/2014

"C.D.C. Closes Anthrax and Flu Labs After Accidents"

"After potentially serious back-to-back laboratory accidents, federal health officials announced Friday that they had temporarily closed the flu and anthrax laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and halted shipments of all infectious agents from the agency’s highest-security labs."

Source: NY Times, 07/14/2014

Tipsheet: The Parched West (SEJ-hosted session at IRE 2014)

SEJ hosted two sessions at Investigative Reporters and Editors’ June 26-29, 2014 conference in San Francisco – one on the western drought and another on the oceans.

Tipsheet: The Oceans (SEJ-hosted session at IRE 2014)

SEJ hosted two sessions at Investigative Reporters and Editors' June 26-29, 2014 conference in San Francisco – one on the oceans and another on the western drought. See the panelists and download the tipsheets.

"In Las Vegas, Climate Change Deniers Re-Group, Vow to Keep Doubt Alive"

"On Monday, the Heartland Institute convened its Ninth International Climate Change Conference in Las Vegas. A Chicago-based, non-profit free-market think tank with a $6 million annual budget, Heartland has been hosting conferences for those dubious of the science confirming human-caused climate change since 2008."

Source: Bloomberg, 07/11/2014

"Texas Sheriff Wants Criminal Charges Filed in Fracking Pollution Case"

"Hauling company that dumped toxic drilling waste over eight miles of road and never told authorities faces formal enforcement action."

Source: InsideClimate News, 07/11/2014

India: "Monsoon Rains Sharply Lower Than Average"

"Monsoon rainfall was 41 percent below average for the week ended July 9, the weather office said on its website on Thursday, the fifth straight week of poor rains after a late start to the season."

Source: Reuters, 07/11/2014

"Natural Gas Pipeline Plan Creates Rift in Massachusetts"

"NORTHFIELD, Mass. — Standing on a dirt road outside his aging barn, Walter Jaworski, a former veterinarian turned cattle rancher in this rural part of north-central Massachusetts, points south across his 200 acres of forest and pasture to a nearby tree line. If things don’t go his way, he says, that’s about where a new natural gas pipeline will slice through his land on a 180-mile journey from central New York to a transmission hub north of Boston."

Source: NY Times, 07/11/2014

"Green Groups Call on Senate To Reject Manchin Ex-Im Bill"

"A coalition of green groups plan to urge President Obama and senators to oppose a bill reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank over its roll-back of restrictions for financing overseas coal plants."

Source: The Hill, 07/11/2014

"Scientists Wary as Water And Ice Build Behind Glacier Dam Above Juneau"

"JUNEAU -- It's been pouring rain in Juneau lately, which has some people bracing for a new and unusual kind of flooding precipitated by climate change."

Source: Alaska Dispatch News, 07/11/2014

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