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"Canton Fire Shows Gaps in Information for Responders" [1]

"Dispatched to a one-story brick warehouse in flames on Baylis Street in [the] Canton [neighborhood of Baltimore, Md.] last month, firefighters did not know it contained 8,000 gallons of corrosive chemicals. But not because it wasn't known to the Baltimore City Fire Department."

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Source: Baltimore Sun [7], 05/08/2012
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EPA Scientist Who Warned of Caustic Dust at Ground Zero Wins Job Back [8]

"A government scientist sacked for exposing the dangers to firefighters from the caustic air at Ground Zero in the days after 9/11 got her job back on Monday."

Environmental Politics [9]
Journalism & Media [4]
Science [10]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Guardian [11], 05/08/2012
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"Heartland Faces a Mutiny Amid Furor Over Billboard Campaign" [12]

"The Heartland Institute's failed billboard campaign attacking the existence of climate change is driving a surge of corporate donors to abandon the group and prompting a mutiny among its Washington-based staff, which is decamping for less volatile surroundings, according to sources."

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Environmental Politics [9]
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National (U.S.) [6]
Source: ClimateWire [15], 05/08/2012
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"Two Years Later, Grim Photos From the BP Disaster" [16]

"It's been two years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster unleashed 4.9 million barrels of oil on the Gulf of Mexico. In the midst of the disaster, BP and its contractors did everything they could to keep people from seeing the scale of the disaster. But new photos released Monday offer some new insight to just how grim the Gulf became for sea life."

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Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Mother Jones [17], 05/07/2012
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"U.S. Proposes New Rules For Fracking On Federal Lands" [18]

"The Obama administration unveiled long-awaited rules on Friday to bolster oversight on public lands of oil and natural gas drilling using fracking technology that has ushered in a boom in drilling but also triggered environmental protests."

Energy & Fuel [19]
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Pollution [20]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Reuters [21], 05/07/2012
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Heartland Pulls Billboard Comparing Warming Science to Mass Murder [22]

"Drivers moving along Chicago’s inbound Eisenhower Expressway on Friday may have been surprised to see Ted Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, staring at them from a massive billboard. 'I still believe in global warming. Do you?' the billboard read in large maroon letters. Just below was the Web address www.heartland.org [23]. Hours later, the digital billboard was gone. It seems that the ad campaign, sponsored by the conservative Heartland Institute, had bombed."

Activism [13]
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Environmental Politics [9]
Journalism & Media [4]
Science [10]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Green (NYT) [24], 05/07/2012
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"Heartland Institute Compares Belief in Global Warming To Mass Murder" [25]

"US thinktank launches poster campaign comparing Unabomber and Osama Bin Laden to those concerned about global warming."

Environmental Politics [9]
Climate Change [14]
Journalism & Media [4]
Science [10]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Guardian [26], 05/04/2012
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Newspapers in Fracking Secrecy Case Win Support of Doctors, Scientists [27]

"PITTSBURGH  -- In a lawsuit over gas industry secrecy, doctors, scientists, researchers and advocates filed court documents supporting two newspapers seeking access to information that could shed light on the health impacts of gas development, including the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. ...

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Public [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [28]
Source: ENS [29], 05/03/2012
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Sad But True: Many Agency Press Offices Stifle Reporter Contact with Employees [30]

Now there is research proving what reporters have known all along, thanks to a survey from the Society of Professional Journalists. SPJ commissioned work by survey research professionals who canvassed newsgatherers during January-February 2012. Here are some of the findings and a link to the full report.

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"Wind Farms, Global Warming Connection Lukewarm At Best" [33]

Early headlines in some "news" media about a study discussing the effect of wind turbines on local microclimates drastically misstated the findings and implications of the study, various debunkers point out.

Climate Change [14]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Journalism & Media [4]
Public [5]
International [34]
Source: Earth Techling [35], 05/02/2012
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