"Oil Jumps To Fresh 1-Year High Above $75 a Barrel"
"Oil prices reached a fresh one-year high above $75 a barrel Thursday in Asia on a weaker U.S. dollar and growing investor optimism about an economic recovery."
Source: AP, 10/15/2009
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"Corps Defends Its Handling of Mine Hearing"
"Army Corps of Engineers officials on Wednesday defending their handling of a rowdy crowd of coal industry supporters who repeatedly interrupted other speakers at a mountaintop-removal public hearing Tuesday night."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 10/15/2009
SEJournal Fall 2009, Vol. 19 No. 3
In this issue: New Journalism-Science Initiatives; Veteran Newspaper Writer Finds Teaching's Hidden Pleasures; Photographers Document and Protect Borderland Environments; Germ Killer, Largely Unregulated, Attracts New Concern for Wildlife; Improve Your Video — Get Good Audio; and more.
"Agriculture and Algae Coexist Uneasily in Imperial Valley"
"With 360 days a year of pure, unclouded sun, California's Imperial Valley has the potential to become the Silicon Valley of renewable energy."
Source: ClimateWire, 10/14/2009
"Study Analyzes Cellphone Tumor Risk"
"Scientists looking at 23 studies involving almost 38,000 people initially see no connection. But a closer look at the highest-quality studies tells another story."
Source: LA Times, 10/14/2009
"Industry, Advocates Agree on New Home Heating, Cooling Standards"
"Equipment manufacturers and energy efficiency advocates agreed today on new standards aimed at dramatically reducing energy use in homes."
Source: Greenwire, 10/14/2009
"Lead Found in Utica’S Elementary Schools"
"Twenty percent of the drinking fountains and faucets at Utica elementary schools tested positive for lead, according to results of a voluntary testing program released Tuesday."
Source: Utica Observer-Dispatch, 10/14/2009
"In New Orleans, Uneven Recovery Awaits Obama"
"President Obama travels to New Orleans this week for a town hall meeting -- and for a look at the recovery in the city battered by Hurricane Katrina four years ago. It will be Obama's first visit since the presidential campaign, when, as a candidate, he had a long list of promises for the city."
Source: NPR, 10/14/2009
"Water Shortages Cause 100,000 To Flee Homes in Iraq: UN"
"More than 100,000 people in northern Iraq have abandoned their homes since 2005 because of water stress, after drought and over-extraction of groundwater caused the collapse of an ancient water system, UNESCO said on Tuesday."
Source: AFP, 10/14/2009
"SoCal Storm Menaces Neighborhoods Near Burn Areas"
"A powerful fall storm packing strong winds and rain drenched fire-scarred hillsides around California on Wednesday, and residents from north to south braced for possible mudslides and debris flows."
Source: AP, 10/14/2009
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