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• a renaissance delayed?

  Nuclear companies face reactor design problems, ethics questions 4

  Posted 4 days, 21 hours agoFederal regulators have expressed serious safety concerns about the design for 14 of the nation's 25 proposed new nuclear reactors, raising questions about the future of what the industry calls its "renaissance."

• a really hot potato

  Will South Carolina become the nation's new Yucca Mountain? 0

  Posted 1 week, 1 day agoEarlier this year, President Obama canceled the federal government's plans to store high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants and weapons facilities at the controversial Yucca Mountain site in Nevada -- but now there are concerns that the Savannah River Site in South Carolina could become the permanent dumping ground for the dangerous waste.

• Poisoned Patriots

  Veteran wins groundbreaking claim for Agent Orange exposure at Georgia military base 0

  Posted 1 week, 2 days agoA U.S. veteran living in Tennessee won what's thought to be the first Veterans Administration claim for exposure inside the continental United States to Agent Orange, an herbicide that was used by the military to clear jungles during the Vietnam War.

• Lawsuit accuses Virginia power company of poisoning Dominican community with toxic coal ash 0

  Posted 1 week, 3 days agoA civil lawsuit in state court in Delaware charges AES Corp. -- one of the world's largest power companies -- with illegally dumping 160 million pounds of toxic coal ash waste onto beaches in the Caribbean nation of the Dominican Republic, leading to serious health problems for nearby residents.

• tallying toxic threats

  Congressional watchdog issues update on coal ash regulation efforts 0

  Posted 2 weeks, 2 days agoThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency still does not know the exact number of coal ash dumps at the nation's power plants, but it's moving ahead with plans to regulate them.

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  Mr. Wells, you might want to double-check your numbers on sea-level rise. While the seas have risen at a mean rate of about 1.8 mm per year over the past century, the rise has intensified considerably in recent years, to around 3 mm per year. Thermal expansion -- that is, water getting warmer and thus more voluminous -- is considered the key driver of that increased rate of rise. Certainly there are other factors behind Louisiana's coastal land loss, as I report in my piece. But sea level rise due to climate disruption can't be discounted.On As the land disappears, an Indian tribe plans to abandon its ancestral Louisiana home posted 1 month, 1 week ago 6 Responses

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  The Center for Biological Diversity has issued a boycott threat against Verizon.

  On Verizon sponsors climate-change-denying mountaintop-removal rally? posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago 22 Responses

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  FYI, I busted ACCCE making a deceptive phone call as part of its lobbying effort against another climate bill last year.

  My May 2008 story at Facing South about the deceptive phone call: http://www.southernstudies.org/2008/05/big-coal-lobby-makes-deceptive-phone.html

  My story about ACCCE's response, which of course blamed one wayward individual: http://www.southernstudies.org/2008/05/coal-lobby-responds-to-facing-south.html

  On Forged climate bill letters spark uproar over 'astroturfing' posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago 16 Responses

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  Brilliant idea! Thanks for covering this.

  On NYC sends veggie carts to underserved areas -- and they're a hit posted 5 months ago 6 Responses