Elyssa Rosen Mentoring Fellows Share Their Conference Experience
The 2014 Elyssa Rosen Memorial Mentoring Program Fund funded travel costs for 11 mentee-mentor pairs to meet up at SEJ's 24th Annual Conference in New Orleans. Read their stories here.
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"At Climate Talks, UN Calls Fossil Fuels 'High Risk' Investment"
"Falling oil prices show the 'high risk' of fossil fuel investments compared with renewable energies, the U.N.'s climate chief said on Monday at the start of 190-nation talks on a deal to slow global warming."
Source: Reuters, 12/02/2014
Metal Contamination Found in Vancouver Community Garden, Brownfields
"Soil research suggests study required before growing food on land near busy transportation corridors."
Source: Vancouver Sun, 12/02/2014
"Study: Iron Range Miners Show Higher Cancer Rates But Reasons Unclear"
"Iron Range miners show higher than expected rates of cardiovascular disease, lung cancer and a rare cancer known as mesothelioma — but it's not clear if taconite ore is what's making them sick."
Source: Minnesota Public Radio, 12/02/2014
"Asbestos Remains Legal Despite Fatal Illnesses Linked To It"
"Stephanie Harper of the North Texas city of Bonham was a daddy’s girl. When her father would come home from work — he was a handyman, a jack of all trades, doing auto mechanics, heating and cooling, anything — she’d grab him and hug him as hard as she could. 'I’d sit on his feet and grab his pants legs,' she remembers."
Source: San Antonion Express-News, 12/02/2014
"DuPont Plant in New Jersey Cited By OSHA Over Toxic Leak"
"Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials announced Monday that they have cited E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. for 11 alleged violations and proposed $120,300 in fines related to problems found after toxic chemicals leaked from a tanker truck in May and exposed workers to health risks at a Deepwater, N.J., plant that is one of DuPont's largest facilities in the United States."
Source: Houston Chronicle, 12/02/2014
"Bhopal: Tragedy Lives On"
"30 Years Later, Survivors of Lethal Gas Leak Still Fight for Justice."
Source: Aljazeera America, 12/02/2014
"That Takeout Coffee Cup May Be Messing With Your Hormones"
"A new study suggests that whole classes of BPA-free plastics—including the kind in styrofoam—release estrogenic chemicals."
Source: , 12/02/2014
"Californian Drought Could Wipe Out Southernmost Coho Salmon Group"
"California's three-year drought threatens to wipe out the last of the Muir Woods coho salmon that make their way each year from the Pacific Ocean to spawn in a freshwater creek running through the redwoods near San Francisco, state officials said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 12/02/2014
Violations at Fla. Plant Highlight NRC Concerns Over Flooding
"On Jan. 9, a freak storm dumped a record rainfall on central Florida's Treasure Coast, inundating the St. Lucie nuclear power plant facing the Atlantic Ocean. Storm drains failed, and 50,000 gallons of water flooded the plant's Unit 1 reactor auxiliary building through improperly sealed electrical passages, disabling core cooling pumps."
Source: EnergyWire, 12/02/2014
