National (U.S.)
"Possible Changes to House Climate Bill"
"Court Battles Loom Over Gray Wolf In West"
"FDA Reviewing Decision on Safety of BPA"
Study Finds Higher Risk from Soot
Bate and Switch
Old-Fashioned Reporting Turns Good Stories to Gold
By MIKE DUNNE
Two members of the Society of Environmental Journalists honored recently for their investigative reporting efforts say that digging through records and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting helped them make good stories great.
Ken Ward Jr. of The Charleston Gazette was the winner of the Scripps Howard Edward Meeman Award for environmental reporting – the third time he was so honored. His winning work focused on a coal silo permit that should not have been issued and was revoked thanks to his reporting.
The Beat: Leaking Gas Tanks And Chemical Pollution Are Common Focus
Ever wonder what lies beneath your feet – what's down there in the ground on which we walk? The Toledo Blade's Tom Henry has an editor who asked that question and the result was an interesting look at what the government is doing – or not doing – to clean up gasoline spills from leaky underground tanks.
Book Shelf, Book 3- The River Of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Teddy's luckless, little-known trip makes a riveting tale
THE RIVER OF DOUBT: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S DARKEST JOURNEY
By Candice Millard
Doubledy, $26
Book Shelf, Book 2- The Winds Of Change: Climate, Weather, And The Destruction Of Civilization
Climate change scientist paints a stark and vivid picture
THE WINDS OF CHANGE: CLIMATE, WEATHER AND THE DESTRUCTION OF CIVILIZATIONS By Eugene Linden
Simon & Schuster, $26