Missouri: "Health Risks From West Lake Landfill Still Unclear"
"How dangerous is the radioactive West Lake Landfill?"
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 01/05/2015
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD)
"Diabetes Drug Found in Lake Michigan Could Harm Fish, Researchers Say"
"There is more than one way to measure prescription drug use."
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 01/02/2015
From Classroom to Bookshelf: Publishing a DIY Guide to Local Environmental Issues
In this excerpt from the latest issue of SEJournal (Fall), Webster University journalism professor Don Corrigan shares how he used his classroom as a focal point for generating material with student inquiry and invitations to local experts, resulting in publication of a guide to St. Louis' environmental issues — and how the book can serve as a template for other professors to write a book for other states or regions.
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N Dakota Regulators Tell Producers to Filter Crude of Flammable Liquids
"North Dakota regulators on Tuesday ordered producers pumping oil from the Bakken shale field to begin removing flammable natural gas liquids from their product before shipment in an effort to prevent deadly explosions involving trains."
Source: NY Times, 12/11/2014
"Annual Seed Harvest Keeps Wild Prairies Alive"
"EL DORADO SPRINGS, Mo. — This year's effort to collect wildflower and grass seeds from surviving prairie remnants has wrapped up."
Source: AP, 12/01/2014
"Advocates Hope Federal Coal Ash Rules Spur Oversight in Missouri"
"Missouri environmental advocates who have fought for stricter oversight of coal ash waste are eagerly awaiting the mid-December release of new federal rules that will require, for the first time, detailed data."
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/01/2014
"The Downside of the Boom"
"North Dakota took on the oversight of a multibillion-dollar oil industry with a regulatory system built on trust, warnings and second chances."
Source: NY Times, 11/24/2014
"A Year After N.D. Oil Spill, Cleanup Goes On"
"BISMARCK, N.D. -- One year after a pipeline rupture flooded a wheat field in northwestern North Dakota with more than 20,000 barrels of crude, Tesoro Corp. is still working around the clock cleaning up the oil spill -- one of the largest to happen onshore in U.S. history."
Source: AP, 10/21/2014
Opinion: "The Candidate Who Wants More Pollution in Iowa"
"Iowa voted for Barack Obama in the last two presidential elections, but now it is seriously considering electing a United States Senate candidate with a hard-right proposal that is truly radical: abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: NY Times, 10/14/2014
"Willie Nelson, Neil Young Lend Their Talents to Keystone XL Fight"
"NELIGH, Neb. — Music legends Willie Nelson and Neil Young delivered Saturday on a promise to comfort opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline while also pleasing a few project supporters who ventured into a crowded Nebraska farm field."
Source: Omaha World Herald, 09/30/2014
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