TSA Likens Photographers to Terrorists
The Transportation Security Administration's recent poster shows a photographer in a hoodie taking pictures at an airport and urging people to call the cops if they saw such a thing.
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Court: BLM Must Release Names of Grazing Permit Holders
The decision could eventually force disclosure for holders of some 18,000 permits across 160 million acres in the West.
More Resources for Digging Into the Gulf Spill Story
Despite the new, apparently unwritten law against digging journalistically into the impacts of the spill, there are information resources here that may help you dig into other oil/environment stories as well.
Federal Cops to Gulf Journos: Don't Dig, It's Illegal
Watch the video: Pensacola TV reporter Dan Thomas is accosted by USFWS and NPS after finding layers of crude oil (with his toy shovel) less than a foot below the surface — giving the lie to BP and government claims that beaches had been cleaned.
"Panel Advises More Aggressive FDA Analysis of Engineered Salmon"
"While a genetically engineered salmon is almost certainly safe to eat, the government should pursue a more rigorous analysis of the fish's possible health effects and environmental impact, members of a federal advisory committee said yesterday."
Source: Greenwire, 09/22/2010
AK Spill Response Tech Outdated and Underfunded, Lawmakers Warned
"A Valdez-based citizen watchdog group told legislators Tuesday that the state's arsenal of oil-response equipment lags behind modern technology and the state division that enforces the rules for preventing and cleaning up spills has an 'ever-worsening funding shortage.'"
Source: Anchorage Daily News, 09/22/2010
"In Pennsylvania, Natural Gas Industry Flexes Its Muscle"
The gas-drilling boom that is sweeping Pennsylvania is demonstrating the power of money to overcome landowners' reluctance and influence legislators and regulators. This fall, a gusher of gas-industry political campaign donations is spewing.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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"EPA Issues Final Plan for Auditing Rejected Texas Permits"
"For the roughly 130 power plants, refineries and other facilities embroiled in the air permitting dispute between U.S. EPA and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, a new program being finalized by EPA could allow them to get on with business as usual."
Source: Greenwire, 09/22/2010
"Oil Company Fined in Royalty Case"
"WASHINGTON — Nearly seven years after a government auditor charged that an oil company had cheated the government out of millions of dollars in royalties, a federal judge has ordered the company to pay nearly $23 million in penalties — including $5.7 million to the auditor who uncovered the problem."
Source: NYTimes, 09/22/2010
"Toxic Overflow" (Part 1)
"The contamination of many First Nations by unregulated landfills and dumps is a dirty story that has yet to be fully told. Aside from the mess you can see – and smell – the risk of groundwater pollution is probably the most severe environmental impact from these waste sites. Add an improperly engineered garbage dump and the results are more than toxic."
Source: APTN, 09/22/2010
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