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"High Winds, Tornado Trap Georgia Residents, Turn Over Cars"
"Powerful winds and a tornado spawned by a 1,000-mile-long storm system pounded communities in northwest Georgia on Wednesday, overturning dozens of vehicles and trapping residents."
"Crude Oil Spills Into Mississippi River After Oil Barges Crash"
"Two oil barges pushed by a tugboat slammed into a railroad bridge in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Sunday, causing one to leak crude oil into the Mississippi River, the U.S. Coast Guard said."
N. Carolina: "Environmental Groups Seek Clean Up of 14 Coal Ash Pits"
"RALEIGH -- Conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the state Environmental Management Commission, Duke Energy and Progress Energy seeking the cleanup or shut-down of 14 ash pits that collect tons of waste from coal-burning power plants across the state."
"Georgia Power Seeks To Retire 15 Coal, Oil Power Units"
"Georgia Power said on Monday it plans to seek approval from Georgia regulators to retire 15 coal-, oil- and natural gas-fired power plants in the state totaling 2,061 megawatts (MW) due primarily to the high cost of meeting stricter federal environmental regulations."
"Scientists Trying To Thwart Kudzu Bug’s Destructive March"
"At last, the “Vine that Ate the South” may have met its match. To most longtime Southerners, it sounds great: a bug that loves to eat kudzu and can kill off half an infestation of the tangled vine in a couple of years. What’s not to like?"
Announcement: SEJ's 23rd Annual Conference Returns to Chattanooga, TN, Oct. 2-6, 2013
July 5, 2012—The Society of Environmental Journalists is pleased to accept the invitation of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Chattanooga Times Free Press to bring our 2013 meeting to Tennessee. This will be the first time in 20 years that SEJ is bringing its annual conference back to a conference host.
"Florida Rivers Getting Sicker, Sentinel Investigation Finds"
"Florida's rivers are in trouble. That's what the Orlando Sentinel found after a yearlong evaluation of some of the state's biggest and smallest, most urban and remote, cleanest and dirtiest, protected and abused rivers."
"The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid"