"Shell Oil's Arctic Drilling Operations in Limbo"
"Shell Oil has not disclosed new safety measures since a critical federal report in March, and it has not applied to drill in the Arctic in 2014."
Source: LA Times, 09/26/2013
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Flame Retardants Banned Years Ago Finally Declining in Women: Study
"Scientists have documented for the first time that banned flame retardants have declined in people in the United States, where levels of the chemicals had been growing exponentially."
Source: EHN, 09/26/2013
Indiana OKs BP Wastewater Permit Requiring Major Mercury Reductions
"WHITING -- The Indiana Department of Environmental Management issued its final ruling on a permit application for BP's Whiting Refinery, requiring the company to cut its mercury releases into Lake Michigan by more than half."
Source: NW Indiana Times, 09/26/2013
"'High Levels' of Poison Found in Columbia Sewers as Probe Widens"
"Cancer-causing industrial chemicals have been found in the sewers at a Columbia-area restaurant as a state investigation of illegal dumping expands from the Upstate to the Midlands, where utility officials scrambled this week to learn more about the threat to central South Carolina."
Source: The State, 09/26/2013
"The Wound That Won’t Heal: Idaho’s Phosphate Problem"
"An elemental phosphorus plant owned by the FMC Corp., on the Shoshone-Bannock homelands in Idaho, has been abandoned for more than a decade. But its legacy of pollution remains -- and it’s jeopardizing economic progress, public and environmental health on the reservation and in surrounding communities."
Source: Indian Country Today, 09/26/2013
"Obama Nominee for U.S. FERC in Jeopardy With Scott's 'No'"
"Senator Tim Scott will vote against President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, virtually erasing the possibility of a Senate panel approving the nomination."
Source: Bloomberg, 09/26/2013
Appeals Judges Seem Dubious Of DOE's Collecting Nuke-Waste Fees
"Federal judges [Wednesday] posed stiff questions to Department of Energy officials on why the agency continues to collect fees for disposing of nuclear waste even though it has no operating national repository."
Source: Greenwire, 09/26/2013
"The Battle Over San Diego's Barrio Logan"
Residents of a largely Latino San Diego neighborhood have three times the chance of having asthma.
Source: KPCC, 09/26/2013
Live in a Flood Zone? Check Your Insurance. It May Be About To Go Up
"A new federal flood-insurance reform law requires maps to take account of projected sea level rise in designating flood zones, as federal subsidies for properties in flood zones fade to zero."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 09/26/2013
Freedom of Information Sessions at SEJ's 2013 Annual Conference in Chattanooga
On Saturday, October 5: At 9:00 a.m. SEJ FOI Task Force Chair Tim Wheeler of the Baltimore Sun will moderate a session on overcoming obstacles put up by agency press offices to reporters who want to interview government officials. At 10:45 a.m. WatchDog Editor Joe Davis will present a hands-on session with tips for sleuthing dam and levee stories using federal databases like the National Inventory of Dams and the National Levee Database.
