"Airborne Laboratory Being Used To Measure California's Snowpack"
"By taking sophisticated instrument readings of the snow depth and reflected sunlight, researchers hope to improve the accuracy of runoff forecasts."
Source: LA Times, 05/03/2013
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"Cross-Country Solar Plane Expedition Set for Takeoff"
Pilots will soon launch an effort to fly a solar-powered airplane across the United States.
Source: NY Times, 05/02/2013
Broken Promise: Database Helps Track Illegal Parkland Conversions
InvestigateWest's Robert McClure and Jason Alcorn explain how to spin the local angle about how parks built or improved with money from the Land and Water Conservation Fund are increasingly being illegally privatized or converted to something other than parks — including sharing their searchable database of almost 40,000 park grants.
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"Solar Plane To Set Out To Cross U.S. In Early May"
"The first crossing of the United States by a solar-powered plane is expected to start in just over a month, its creators said on Thursday, as they make final preparations for an attempt two years from now at the first round-the-world flight without any fuel."
Source: Reuters, 04/03/2013
EPA Pilot-Tests New Data Mapping Tool on Community Exposures
The Community-Focused Exposure and Risk Screening Tool (C-FERST), available currently to some agencies, communities, and researchers, could be helpful in tracking environmental justice stories: the impact of specific pollutant exposures on particular geographic and demographic communities.
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Keeping Up on Chemical Databases
Find a rich collection of online resources courtesy of the National Library of Medicine and others, compiled by SEJ member and NLM technical information specialist Philip Wexler.
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"U.S. Water Infrastructure Given ‘D’ Grade by ASCE Group"
"The U.S. drinking water and sewage infrastructure earned a barely passing grade of D from the American Society of Civil Engineers today, which said at least $1 trillion is needed to fix the problem."
Source: Bloomberg, 03/20/2013
"N.R.C. Votes for Upgrades to Some Reactor Vents"
"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 3 to 2 on Tuesday to require improvements to the emergency vents at 31 American reactors that share design similarities with the Japanese reactors that melted down two years ago. The agency stopped short, however, of requiring filters to scrub out radioactive particles coming through those vents."
Source: NY Times, 03/20/2013
"Obama's $2 Billion Plan To Wean US Off Foreign Oil"
"If the Obama administration has its way, $2 billion in new revenue from offshore oil drilling will fund research into how to wean American drivers off imported oil."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 03/18/2013
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