"Lead Poisoning Nightmare In Nigeria May Be Easing"
"Children in northwestern Nigeria are no longer dying by the hundreds."
Source: NPR, 04/22/2014
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A Year After West Blast, Support for Chemical Safety Reform Uncertain
"A year after the West Fertilizer explosion, the nation is taking its first steps to repair the failed system for preventing chemical accidents. But whether the fixes will work, or even become reality, remains to be seen. Sen. Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Senate environment and public works committee, noted the disaster’s first anniversary with a call for action."
Source: Dallas Morning News, 04/22/2014
"Compensation Battle Rages Four Years After BP's U.S. Oil Spill"
"Four years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, oil is still washing up on the long sandy beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and some islanders are fed up with hearing from BP that the crisis is over."
Source: Reuters, 04/22/2014
Earth Day Happy Hour
If you're anything like me, Earth Day and its requisite flood of terrible pitch emails makes you want a drink. So we're holding another happy hour for SEJ members and friends in DC next Tuesday, April 22. We'll be upstairs on the deck (which has a tarp and heaters, in case the weather fails us). Five-dollar happy hour specials til the end!
Date: Tuesday, April 22
Time: 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
Local 16 (an eating/drinking establishment) - 1602 U Street NW
Please share with friends!
-Kate Sheppard
"Judge Strikes Down Minnesota's Anti-Coal Energy Law"
"A federal judge on Friday struck down a landmark 2007 Minnesota law that bans new power generation from coal, saying it regulates business activities of out-of-state utilities in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s commerce clause."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 04/21/2014
"Coal Ash Unmonitored in Fill Sites Across N.C."
"Coal ash, infamous for its recent splash into the Dan River, also lies along Charlotte’s outerbelt."
Source: Charlotte Observer, 04/21/2014
States Target Tiny Beads in Cleansers That Harm Waterways, Wildlife
"The tiny plastic particles found in many facial cleansers and soaps promise a gentle scrubbing and luxuriously smooth skin. But those little beads of grit are also piling up in waterways, where they can suck up toxins and harm wildlife, environmentalists say. Because of those concerns, Illinois is one of several states considering legislation to force manufacturers to drop products that use the particles, called microbeads."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 04/21/2014
"Quake Risk Exceeds Licensed Limits at U.S. Nuclear Plants"
"Massachusetts Senators Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren today called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to direct the licensees of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts and Seabrook Station in New Hampshire to immediately implement mitigation measures against seismic risks that were previously unknown."
Source: ENS, 04/21/2014
"Cumbrian Nuclear Dump 'Virtually Certain' To Be Eroded By Rising Sea"
"Britain's nuclear dump is virtually certain to be eroded by rising sea levels and to contaminate the Cumbrian coast with large amounts of radioactive waste, according to an internal document released by the Environment Agency (EA)."
Source: Guardian, 04/21/2014
