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Book Shelf, Book 1 - Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People And The Environment

Exploring the legacy of dams and human delusions of grandeur

DEEP WATER: THE EPIC STRUGGLE OVER DAMS, DISPLACED PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT Jacques Leslie
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, $15.75

Reviewed by NANCY BAZILCHUK

A dam may not be forever, even if constructions like the Hoover Dam are expected to survive for a thousand years. A dam's environmental and social impacts, though, are enormous, extensive and essentially irreversible.

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From Environmental Fiction to Top Investigative Awards

By JACKLEEN de La HARPE

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"Cigarettes Without Smoke, or Regulation"

'Electonic cigarettes, which offer a dose of vaporized nicotine to be inhaled from a tube that looks like a cigarette, may offer a less dangerous way for smokers to quit -- or stay addicted. But the mostly made-in-China devices are largely unstudied and unregulated.

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Source: NYTimes, 06/02/2009

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Duke Ordered To Close Indiana Coal Units

"A federal judge in Indianapolis has ordered Duke Energy Corp. to shut down nearly 40 percent of an Indiana power plant's capacity as part of an enforcement case that dates back to the Clinton administration."

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Source: Greenwire, 06/02/2009

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"What’s Next for the Chevy Volt?"

GM is saying that despite its bankruptcy the plug-in hybrid Volt still has the greenlight for a 2010 launch. But does it?

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Source: Reuters, 06/02/2009

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"Judge Orders New Plan for Dam Releases into Grand Canyon"

"Federal officials must reconsider the irregular water releases from Glen Canyon Dam, which may harm the humpback chub, an endangered fish."

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Source: LA Times, 06/01/2009

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"Obama Walks a Fine Line Over Mining"

"Environmentalists feel betrayed by the EPA's decision not to block new mountaintop mining projects."

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Source: LA Times, 06/01/2009

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"Toxic Mud, Heading to Texas, Stirs Town"

The toxic, PCB-laced sediment now being dredged from the Hudson River has to go somewhere -- a landfill in Texas.

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Source: NYTimes, 06/01/2009

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"Groups Ask EPA to Ban Lead Tire Weights"

"The federal government should ban the use of lead weights, those fingertip-size chunks of metal that balance the tires of cars and trucks, says a petition filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week."

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 06/01/2009

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"Green Promise Seen in Switch to LED Lighting"

A new technology called LED lighting promises more savings in greenhouse emissions and longer appliance life than compact fluorescent bulbs -- at a price.

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Source: NYTimes, 06/01/2009

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