Tapping the Environmental Journalism 'Power Grid'
SEJ President Don Hopey explains his glass-half-full look at the maturing of the environment beat and its growing importance in everyday life.
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"Salmon People Pray for Sacred Fish To Return To Historic Home"
"Northwest tribes urge US and Canada to revise Columbia River Treaty to allow safe passage for salmon crossing dams."
Source: Aljazeera America, 10/06/2014
"Radon: The Invisible Killer In Native Homes Across Indian Country"
"When Twa-le Abrahamson-Swan tested her Spokane, Washington, home for radon, she already knew about the dangers of the invisible, odorless radioactive gas."
Source: Indian Country Today, 10/02/2014
"Report Shows Schools Vulnerable to Toxic Exposure"
"NBC 5 Investigates has analyzed data released by a Washington D.C.-based research group and found dozens of facilities across the Chicago area that store or use toxic chemicals which - if released in an accidental leak or explosion - could directly affect hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren throughout the city and suburbs."
Source: NBC Chicago, 10/01/2014
"Dark Side of the Boom"
"North Dakota’s oil rush brings cash and promise to reservation, along with drug-fueled crime"
Source: Wash Post, 09/29/2014
"The Growing Push By Canada’s First Nations for Sovereignty"
"LA TUQUE, Canada — For years, members of the Atikamekw First Nation have watched trucks rumble through their traditional territory, carrying out load after load of timber, only to see the profits slipped into others’ pockets. Recently, exploration companies have begun searching for rare metal and gold deposits on the land, a vast stretch of Canadian wilderness nearly the size of Maine. And like many First Nation tribes, the Atikamekw have had enough."
Source: Aljazeera America, 09/25/2014
Constitution Wins After Court Imposes Prior Restraint on Pipeline Safety Info
As a nationwide newspaper chain probed safety threats posed to the public by gas pipelines, an Alabama court imposed prior restraint on the Montgomery Advertiser, to prevent it from publishing the Alabama Gas Corporation's safety plan, citing homeland security and trade secrets. Now a judge has ruled that the court erred in granting a temporary restraining order.
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