Is Your Community Ready for Hurricane Season?
SEJ has prepared a list of resources which may be helpful to reporters doing before, during and after-hurricane stories.
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"Hurricane Bill Gathers Strength out in Atlantic"
"The first hurricane of the Atlantic season loomed far out in the ocean Tuesday, gaining power and moving on a track that forecasters said could take it close to Bermuda by the end of the week."
Source: AP, 08/18/2009
"Firefighters Gain on California Wildfires"
Firefighters have largely contained many of the major fires that forced thousands of residents in various parts of California to flee their homes. Some are already returning.
Source: LA Times, 08/17/2009
Toolbox: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
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"Taiwan Mudslide May Have Buried 600 Villagers"
"A mudslide triggered by torrential rains from a typhoon may have buried up to 600 villagers in mountainous southern Taiwan, disaster officials said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 08/11/2009
"Audit Finds Research Labs Slow to Improve Security"
"Government officials have been slow to upgrade security at U.S. laboratories that handle deadly germs nearly a year after congressional investigators found weak security controls, a new audit finds."
Source: AP, 08/06/2009
"Company Defends Chief in Bhopal Disaster"
"Union Carbide is defending its former chief executive now wanted for arrest in India, saying that managers at the company’s plant in Bhopal could not have anticipated a gas leak that killed 10,000 people 25 years ago."
Source: NYTimes, 08/04/2009
Without Warning System, Communities Blind to Toxic Disaster
A July 26 McClatchy story about an ammonia spill that killed one in South Carolina is similar to others that could be told in other U.S. states.
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TVA IG Says Agency Let Lawyers Stifle $3 Million Study on Coal-Ash Spill Causes
An investigation by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee indicates the Tennessee Valley Authority opted not to make changes that could have prevented the massive December 2008 spill.
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"Poisonous Gas From African Lake Poses Threat To Millions"
"More than two million people living on the banks of Lake Kivu in central Africa are at risk of being asphyxiated by gases building up beneath its surface, scientists have warned."
Source: Observer, 07/28/2009
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