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UN report on the Ogoniland oil spills could be catalyst for change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 10th, 2011
Guardian: It's not often that 275 pages of bald facts and figures, measurements and dry data changes anything. But the UN environment programme (UNEP) report on Ogoniland published on Friday, has genuinely shocked people around the world and gives hope to impoverished communities on the delta that their struggle for human rights against pollution and poverty is at least being recognised.
Ogonis and others say there was little new in the report, and it has been argued well by US oil-spill expert Richard...
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Japan Held Nuclear Data, Leaving Evacuees in Peril
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 10th, 2011
New York Times: The day after a giant tsunami set off the continuing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, thousands of residents at the nearby town of Namie gathered to evacuate.
PREVENTIVE MEASURES Officials in Koriyama, Japan, removed surface soil from its schools for fear of radiation contamination and imposed tougher inspection standards than those set by the country's education officials.
Given no guidance from Tokyo, town officials led the residents north, believing that winter winds would...
Sewage Frequently Fouls Hudson River, Report Says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 10th, 2011
New York Times: Sewage routinely contaminates the Hudson River, according to a report released on Tuesday after four years of water testing in which one-fifth of the water samples indicated that the river was unsuitable for swimming and other recreation.
The study, issued by the environmental group Riverkeeper, underscores how a big sewage discharge in July, caused by a fire at a treatment plant in Manhattan, was part of a persistent and far more widespread sewage problem along the 155-mile river.
Despite...