"Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall"
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Covering Sprawl, Science, and Chickens
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"Texas Town’s Blast Crater Shows Risk From Patchwork Zoning Laws"
"With two schools near a plant storing ammonium nitrate -- the fertilizer used in the Oklahoma City bombing -- West, Texas, Superintendent Marty Crawford said he had always worried about an explosion like the one that happened last week."
Source: Bloomberg, 04/26/2013
Toolbox: Database Helps Track Broken Promises on Parkland Conservation
Seattle-based InvestigateWest published a feature package last summer documenting illegal parkland conversions in Michigan, New York City, and Oklahoma. They could not cover all the other states — that was left for you to do, with the assistance of their database of some 40,000 federal grants under the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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Texas Fertilizer Explosion Re-Raises Buried Hazmat Disclosure Issues
News stories about the April 17, 2013, explosion of a fertilizer storage plant in the town of West, Texas that killed 15 people have so far focused on the plant operator's risk-disclosure failure, instead of the likely fact that government agencies knew the nature and magnitude of the hazard — or should have known. The bigger story is the regulatory failure — and industry's decades-long campaign to keep the public ignorant of the threats they face. Photo: AP/LM Otero/Available through Creative Commons.
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"Pinellas Beginning To Assess Risks of Sea-Level Rise"
"CLEARWATER -- Despite warnings from scientists, rising sea levels still seem little more than a distant, imperceptible threat, a phenomenon whose change is measured in centimeters over decades."
Source: Tampa Tribune, 04/23/2013
SEJournal Spring 2013, Vol. 23 No. 1
In this issue: Special report on energy and climate change; first installment of new column 'Freelance Files' on goal setting; database helps track illegal parkland conversions; members cover sprawl, science and chickens; annual Sundance Film Festival report; and six book reviews.
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"Americans Oppose Paying for Storm-Ravaged Beaches"
"WASHINGTON -- More than 4 out of 5 Americans want to prepare now for rising seas and stronger storms from climate change, a new national survey says. But most are unwilling to keep spending money to restore and protect stricken beaches."
Source: AP, 03/29/2013
"LA Harbor Commissioners OK Rail Yard Near Port"
"Over the objections of environmentalists, community groups and neighboring Long Beach officials, Los Angeles harbor commissioners on Thursday approved a $500-million rail yard that could dramatically boost business but also drive more noise and dirty air into schools, parks and low-income neighborhoods."
Source: LA Times, 03/08/2013
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