Tisha Thompson, of WTTG-Washington, D.C., reports on the overfishing of menhaden, small silvery fish critical to the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay. The Virginia-based company Omega Protein uses these fish for their production of Omega-3 fish oil supplements as menhaden have a high concentration of this valuable oil.
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Leaking underground tanks leave legacy of contamination in Pennsylvania
March 1st, 2010 
Mark Horvit An investigation of leaky underground storage tanks in the Lehigh Valley by Christopher Baxter and Tim Darragh of The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) found spills left lingering for years or even decades, homeowners kept in the dark about nearby problems and inconsistent tracking and enforcement by the state Department of Environmental Protection. The project includes [...]
Ex-residents slow to be notified of toxic water on Marine base
February 17th, 2010 Beth Despite a 2007 law requiring the Marine Corps to notify former residents of Camp Lejeune, N.C. that they may have been exposed to contaminated water between 1957 and 1987, many have never been notified while others are just now finding out, according to a report by Barbara Barrett of McClatchy Newspapers.
Stimulus funds go to troubled corporations
January 11th, 2010 Beth Will Evans of California Watch found large corporations in California are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal stimulus dollars despite a history of environmental violations and a host of other legal problems.
Regulations crippling commercial fishing industry
December 23rd, 2009 Beth A Life at Sea/A Life at Risk, a six-part series by The Press of Atlantic City (N.J.), examined the crushing impact of federal and state fishing regulations on New Jersey’s $1 billion a year commercial fishing industry. “The regulations use size limits, gear restrictions, seasons, quotas and other methods to reduce the catch. A new [...]
Puerto Rican refinery had history of problems, neglect
November 13th, 2009 Beth Mc Nelly Torres, a freelance journalist, and Omaya Sosa Pascual, of El Centro Periodistico Investigativo de Puerto Rico, report decades of environmental violations, financial distress and neglect behind the company that owns the refinery where the Oct. 23 deadly explosion took place in Puerto Rico.
Clean energy stimulus funds ending up overseas
October 30th, 2009 Beth The latest report from the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University shows that the majority of clean-energy grants paid out from stimulus funds have gone to overseas companies.
Historical records used to identify forgotten lead smelter
October 20th, 2009 Beth The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is opening an investigation of possible lead contamination in an Atlanta neighborhood after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution unearthed old documents showing that a lead smelter spewed lead dust over the area for decades.
Environmental violations continue due to uneven enforcement
October 19th, 2009 Beth A review of Pennsylvania environmental records by Christopher Baxter of The Morning Call (Allentown, Penn.) found eight years of stop-and-go enforcement by the Department of Environmental Protection that allowed a steel coating plant to continue operating despite violating dozens of environmental regulations.
Contaminated drinking water found in schools across the U.S.
September 29th, 2009 Beth A 10-month investigation by Garance Burke of the Associated Press has found unsafe levels of contaminants such as lead and pesticides in school drinking water in all 50 states. “But the problem has gone largely unmonitored by the federal government, even as the number of water safety violations has multiplied.”
