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Here's the Pitch: Help Guide SEJ and Its Mission To Serve the Search for Facts
SEJ President Christy George explains all the exellent reasons why you should run for the SEJ board of directors in the upcoming election.
On-line Journalism Begins To Fill the Void After Newspaper World’s Decay
SEJournal's Bill Dawson interviews Environmental Health News editor-in-chief Marla Cone, who left the Los Angeles Times in 2008, after almost two decades. Since then, Cone has overseen a number of major changes at the not-for-profit online publication.
"A Watchdog’s Warning on Nuclear Waste"
This week a blue-ribbon commission on nuclear waste will hold two days of hearings on alternatives to the now-stalled Yucca Mountain disposal site.
Source: Green (NYT), 07/13/2010
"In BP’s Record, a History of Boldness and Costly Blunders"
A billion-dollar BP oil rig named Thunder Horse almost sunk in the Gulf after a 2005 hurricane. "The problems at Thunder Horse were not an anomaly, but a warning that BP was taking too many risks and cutting corners in pursuit of growth and profits, according to analysts, competitors and former employees. Despite a catalog of crises and near misses in recent years, BP has been chronically unable or unwilling to learn from its mistakes, an examination of its record shows."
Source: NYTimes, 07/13/2010
"Puget Sound Waters Now More Corrosive"
"The waters in Puget Sound's main basin are acidifying as fast as those along the Washington Coast, where wild oysters have not reproduced since 2005."
Source: Seattle Times, 07/13/2010
"Climate Change Can Be Hazardous To Your Health"
"From heat stress to sewage overflows, climate change promises to bring extreme weather that can throw our nation's ill-prepared public health infrastructure 'back to the 1890s,' according to experts."
Source: Daily Climate, 07/13/2010
"Dioxin Science Wars" Heat Up
"The latest skirmish in the decades-long scientific battle over the health risks of the most toxic form of dioxin is heating up."
Source: C&EN, 07/13/2010
Media Give Climate Science Exoneration Less Ink Than False Charges
Mainstream news media have given far less coverage to the five major panels that have debunked the "climategate" stolen-email flap kicked up by the fossil-fuel blogosphere than they did to the original charges now proven false.
Source: Huffington Post, 07/13/2010
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