SEJ's 21st Annual Conference Agenda — Saturday
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"EPA Wears Many Hats in Sprawling Environmental Justice Initiative"
EPA and Justice Department officials in the Obama administration are putting more emphasis on environmental justice -- an effort to reduce the greater hazards faced by poor and minority communities. But that job is not easy, especially in the face of industry resistance.
Source: Greenwire, 04/15/2011
"Montana May Let Wild Bison Roam Outside Yellowstone National Park"
"Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is introducing a plan today that would allow bison in Yellowstone National Park to travel north outside the park boundaries into Montana's Gardiner Basin during winter months."
Source: ENS, 04/15/2011
Mining Claims Could Mar National Park And Wilderness Area Borders: Pew
"The Pew Environment Group says the Grand Canyon is especially at risk. Critics of the mining say an 1872 law gives companies 'carte blanche.'"
Source: LA Times, 04/15/2011
"In Minnesota, Copper Mining Runs Afoul of Wild Rice"
"Wild rice is sacred to the Ojibwe of Minnesota, but that may not be enough to protect it from the promise of jobs that a new copper-nickel mining industry would bring to the state."
Source: AP, 04/15/2011
"TVA Moving Away From Coal-Fired Power"
"The Tennessee Valley Authority has agreed to shutter 18 coal-fired units at three power plants and make major improvements at 10 other sites, in a deal that's being called one of the largest pollution reductions agreements in the nation's history."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 04/15/2011
"One Arrest as BP Bars Door To Gulf Coast Protesters"
"Scuffles between protesters and security guards marred BP's first annual shareholder meeting since the Gulf oil spill Thursday, as investors registered their disapproval with sizable protest votes against company directors."
Source: AP, 04/15/2011
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