"Uranium Mining -- The Virginia Battleground"
"The Virginia General Assembly is expected to vote next year on whether to lift a 30-year moratorium on uranium mining in the state."
Source: Natural Resources News Service, 12/05/2011
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DEADLINE: Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is accepting nominations until Jan 21, 2026, for work encouraging fairness in news coverage by American journalists and news organizations. Winner receives $10,000; second and third receive $1,000.
"More Radioactive Water Leaks at Japanese Plant"
"TOKYO — At least 45 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from a purification facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, and some of it may have reached the Pacific Ocean, the plant’s operator said Sunday."
Source: NY Times, 12/05/2011
Day After Story on Weak Enforcement, Iowa Cracks Down on Polluter
"Iowa’s attorney general is suing a corn processing plant, alleging it has released more air pollution than allowed for at least the past 18 months. Filing of the lawsuit came a day after the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News highlighted the state environmental agency’s passivity in curbing emissions at the plant in the Mississippi River town of Muscatine."
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Source: iWatch News, 12/05/2011
"EPA Tweaks Proposed Boiler Rule, Zeroes in on Largest Emitters"
"U.S. EPA [Friday] released a reworked package of proposed rules to tackle toxic emissions from 201,000 of the largest boilers and incinerators nationwide, hoping to clear up complaints from manufacturing groups as the agency clamps down on the industrial boilers that are one of the largest U.S. sources of harmful air pollution."
Source: Greenwire, 12/05/2011
"As Gas Riches Remake Plains, Lawmaker Shares in Bounty"
The gas drilling boom is making at least one congressman rich.
Source: NY Times, 12/05/2011
"Carbon Emissions Show Biggest Jump Ever Recorded"
"Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist through the recovery."
Source: NY Times, 12/05/2011
"A Citizen Activist Forces New Mexico's Dairies To Clean Up Their Act"
"New Mexico has passed some of the most progressive dairy-related water regulations in the West."
Source: High Country News, 12/05/2011
"San Benito County's New Idria Mercury Mine Now a Superfund Site"
"Every second of every day it flows: a river of poison gushing from the hillsides."
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel, 12/05/2011
"Bhopal Disaster Protesters Block Trains"
"Thousands of survivors of the world's worst industrial accident are protesting for more compensation by blocking the trains in an Indian city."
Source: Sky News, 12/05/2011
