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Fox News DC (Tue 17 Apr, 2012)
Chesapeake Bay gets D+ in new report card
BALTIMORE - Heavy rains and a hot summer harmed the Chesapeake Bay's health last year.
USA Today (Tue 17 Apr, 2012)
Chesapeake Bay gets D+ in new report card
Staff quoted: Bill Dennison, Caroline Wicks
Heavy rains and a hot summer harmed the Chesapeake Bay's health last year, earning it the second worst grade on a yearly report card issued Tuesday by the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science.
The Herald Mail (Tue 17 Apr, 2012)
Chesapeake Bay gets D+ in new health report card
Staff quoted: Bill Dennison, Caroline Wicks
BALTIMORE — Heavy rains and a hot summer harmed the Chesapeake Bay's health last year, earning it the second worst grade on a yearly report card issued Tuesday by the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science.
The Charleston (WV) Gazette (Tue 17 Apr, 2012)
Bullpush Mountain, public health and EPA attacks
Staff quoted: Margaret Palmer
It's been a long time since I wrote about Bullpush Mountain, when the Gazette exposed major flaws (which continue today) in the permitting of mountaintop removal operations in West Virginia. Back then, we wrote:
Daily Comet (Louisiana) (Mon 16 Apr, 2012)
GET AN UPDATE ON OIL SPILL
Staff quoted: Don Boesch
A member of the president's BP-oil-spill investigative panel will discuss progress since the disaster Wednesday at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux.
WXVT (Louisiana) (Mon 16 Apr, 2012)
Nicholls to hold oil spill conference
Staff quoted: Don Boesch
THIBODAUX, La. (AP) - Nicholls State University will hold a conference Wednesday reviewing the effects of the BP oil spill two years ago.
The Washington Post (Mon 16 Apr, 2012)
Nicholls State to hold oil spill conference
Staff quoted: Don Boesch
THIBODAUX, La. — Nicholls State University will hold a conference Wednesday reviewing the effects of the BP PLC oil spill two years ago.
The Times - Picayune (Sat 14 Apr, 2012)
Gulf of Mexico oil spill researchers look into effects on wildlife, ways to improve response
Staff quoted: Don Boesch
LSU entomologist Linda Hooper-Bui and her graduate students spent a day last week putting down cages, each one containing 20 brown crickets, among sprigs of smooth cordgrass in a marsh by Bay Jimmy.
The bay in western Plaquemines Parish remains ground zero for efforts to clean remaining oil from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and also has become a focal point of research into the spill's effects on the environment.
The Boston Globe (Sat 14 Apr, 2012)
Prince Herring: Glamourizing the forage fish
Staff quoted: Ed Houde
ARE WHALES wonderful? Think herring.
Earthweek (Fri 13 Apr, 2012)
Fishing of Small Forage Species Should Be Halved: Study
Staff quoted: Ed Houde
A team of U.S. scientists is urging that global catches of small fish like herring and anchovy be cut in half to protect the food supplies of the larger creatures that feed on them.