SEJ's 25th Annual Conference Agenda — Wednesday
See the agenda for #SEJ2015 on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 in Norman, Okla.
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Agenda for SEJ's 25th Annual Conference
Environmental Journalism 2015 wraps up today. We and our host, the University of Oklahoma, thank you. It's critically important to SEJ to gather evidence on the impact of our work. Please help us to keep SEJ strong and share links, photos, copies of reporting generated or informed by this conference! Send your story links to Cindy MacDonald, SEJ's Web content manager.
- Coverage.
- On Sunday we ask, Can Faith Save the World? Then we're off to the National Weather Center for tours and the Book Authors’ Brunch.
- Peruse the agenda or read speaker bios.
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Image (top left): Friday's opening plenary; see coverage.
Many Along Texas Border Still Live Without Safe, Drinkable Water
"Turn on the faucet. Fill a glass with water. Drink it. Acts so commonplace you perform them without thinking twice. Flora Barraza cannot. Neither can José Garcia, nor the cooks at Los Pasteles Bakery No. 2, nor the elderly at the Epoca de Oro Adult Day Care. Along the Texas-Mexico border, nearly 90,000 people are believed to still live without running water. An untold number more — likely tens of thousands, but no one is sure — often have running water of such poor quality that they cannot know what poisons or diseases it might carry."
Source: Texas Tribune, 03/09/2015
"EU Agrees on 40% Carbon-Reduction Pledge for UN Climate Summit"
"The European Union agreed to submit the goal of cutting greenhouse gases by at least 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 to a global climate conference in a bid to retain its leading role in the battle against global warming."
Source: Bloomberg, 03/09/2015
"First Round-The-World Solar Flight Takes Off From UAE"
"DUBAI -- Two pilots attempting the first flight around the world in a solar-powered plane began the maiden leg of their voyage on Monday, the mission's official website said."
Source: Reuters, 03/09/2015
"Despite Protections, Miami Port Project Smothers Coral Reef in Silt"
"MIAMI — The government divers who plunged into the bay near the Port of Miami surfaced with bad news again and again: Large numbers of corals were either dead or dying, suffocated by sediment."
Source: NY Times, 03/09/2015
"Tom Udall’s Unlikely Alliance With the Chemical Industry"
New Mexico's Democratic Senator Tom Udall, who has a reputation as an environmental champion, has surprised environmentalists by his alliance with the chemical industry on toxics reform.
Source: NY Times, 03/09/2015
"FDA Tests Turn Up Dairy Farmers Breaking The Law On Antibiotics"
A few dairy farmers are slipping throught the Food and Drug Administration's enforcement net prohibiting unnecessary use of antibiotics in dairy cows.
Source: NPR, 03/09/2015
"CN Rail Train Carrying Oil Derails in Ontario"
"A train carrying oil derailed in Ontario, the company that owns the train said Saturday, which sparked a fire but no casualties."
Source: CNBC, 03/09/2015
"Utilities Wage Campaign Against Rooftop Solar"
"Three years ago, the nation’s top utility executives gathered at a Colorado resort to hear warnings about a grave new threat to operators of America’s electric grid: not superstorms or cyberattacks, but rooftop solar panels."
Source: Wash Post, 03/09/2015
