"A Tesoro Logistics LP pipeline has spilled more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil into a North Dakota wheat field, the biggest leak in the state since it became a major U.S. producer."
"WASHINGTON — The number of large-scale projects to capture and bury carbon dioxide has fallen to 65 from 75 over the last year, a worldwide survey has found, despite a consensus among scientists and engineers that such projects are essential to meet international goals for slowing the buildup of climate-changing gases."
"South Korea has indicted 100 people, including a top former state utility official, of corruption in a scandal over fake safety certifications for parts in its nuclear reactors, authorities said on Thursday."
"The number of homes at risk from wildfires in western U.S. states jumped 62 percent in the past year as more properties were developed in fire-prone areas, according to a report released on Thursday."
"LONDON -- Urging the destruction of 'an entire category' of unconventional weapons, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 2013 Peace Prize on Friday to a relatively modest and little-known United Nations-backed body that has drawn sudden attention with a mission to destroy Syria’s stocks of chemical arms under a deal brokered by Russia and the United States."
"Last Wednesday, the weather was sunny and warm at Bob Fortune's cattle ranch in Belvidere, S.D. On Thursday, it started raining. By Friday night, the rain had turned to snow. By the weekend, the snow turned to a blizzard with 60 mile an hour winds. By the weekend, Fortune says, 'the cattle just couldn't stand the cold anymore, and they just started dying.'"
"KUMAMOTO, Japan -- Japan, where residents of Minamata suffered lethal mercury poisoning in the mid-1950s, today became one of the first countries to sign a new international treaty to reduce mercury emissions and to phase out many products containing the toxic metal."
"The Department of Agriculture will not close the California chicken-processing plants linked to a nationwide outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella, officials said."
SEJ's 2013 Board Elections were held in October during the annual conference in Chattanooga. Members of the Society elected to the board for three-year terms include Jennifer Bogo, Popular Science; Douglas Fischer, DailyClimate.org; Emily Gertz, Freelance Journalist; David Poulson, MSU Knight Center for Environmental Journalism (academic seat); Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com |The Times-Picayune; and Kate Sheppard, Huffington Post. SEJ thanks outgoing board members Peter Fairley, Thomas Henry, Peter Thomson, Jennifer Weeks, and Tom Yulsman for their collective 36(!) years of excellent service. The 2013 Stolberg Award winner is Jane Braxton Little (pictured, with SEJ president Don Hopey).
This annual award recognizes an SEJ member for their exceptional volunteer work. The 2013 Stolberg award goes to Jane Braxton Little, who as co-leader of SEJ's mentor program "embodies the SEJ spirit of cooperation among journalists," and "cares very much about helping the next generation of journalists make it out there."
