The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
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GHG Reporting Rule So Far: Lessons Learned and Changes to Consider
This seminar looks at the implementation of the reporting rule as we near the end of 2010, and the issues that will likely arise as the first reporting deadline in March 2011 draws near. The seminar will also explore the recent proposed and final amendments to the rule, particularly regarding confidentiality of reported information.
"Plan for Ash Landfill Stirs up Opposition"
"A South Carolina utility company that drew fire for allegedly tainting a local water supply with coal ash residue, a by-product of burning coal that is known to cause serious illness, recently purchased 987 acres in Colleton County to build a new landfill for the waste."
Source: Charleston Post & Courier, 10/11/2010
"Inspectors Rarely Surprised Oil Rigs"
"Surprise inspections of deepwater drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico dwindled to about three a year over the past decade, even as exploratory drilling far from shore increased, according to federal data analyzed by The Wall Street Journal."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 10/11/2010
Getting U.S. Sugar Land Ready for Glades Restoration To Cost Millions
"A more than two-year odyssey of legal fights and political battles over buying U.S. Sugar farmland for Everglades restoration may ultimately prove easier than actually putting the land to use."
Source: Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, 10/11/2010
White House 'Asian Carp Czar' Plans Eradication of Species
In an interview, White House "Asian Carp Czar" John Goss outlines his plans for removing the invasive species from the threatened Great Lakes ecosystem.
Source: NPR, 10/11/2010
"North Jersey Superfund Cleanups Plagued by Errors, Cutbacks"
"Since the [Superfund] program was launched 30 years ago, only three of the 13 [hazardous waste] sites in Bergen and Passaic counties have been fully cleaned. Eight sites have been on the list for more than 25 years."
Source: Bergen Record, 10/11/2010
"Nuclear Road Trip: Shipping Uranium A Complex Task"
"A shipment of bomb-grade uranium arrived at a secure facility in Russia Monday, sent from a research reactor in Poland as part of a race to secure dangerous radioactive material around the world. There was no way to mistake the shipment for something innocuous like Polish sausage — the trucks were escorted by heavily armed police officers and plastered with large radioactive signs."
Source: NPR, 10/11/2010
"Hungary Races To Build Dam Amid New Sludge Threat"
"Workers raced to build an emergency dam in western Hungary on Sunday as cracks in a reservoir widened, threatening to unleash a second torrent of toxic sludge on the village of Kolontar and nearby rivers."
Source: Reuters, 10/11/2010
"Economy Sandbags Plans for Nuclear Reactors"
Plans for one of the first new nuclear power reactors in decades -- a third unit at Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, were put on hold by Constellation Energy. The Energy Department said the project is so risky that Constellation must pay high fees if it wants the U.S. taxpayers to guarantee construction loans. But those subsidies were not high enough for Constellation. The demise of its poster child raised questions about the so-called "nuclear renaissance."
Source: NYTimes, 10/11/2010
