Media scan 3/21: Nuclear power after Japan disaster, Pebble Mine, captive bison, and more....
Posted March 21, 2011 in The Media and the Environment
Frances Beinecke spoke with The Washington Post about how Japan’s disaster would affect the future of nuclear energy in the United States… Bob Deans also discussed the future of nuclear energy in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning; Bob said that we need to redouble efforts to safeguard against future nuclear disasters… In a high profile, front-page story, Ann Alexander spoke with the Chicago Tribune about the stalled efforts from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District to address the chronic sewage overflows in the Chicago River and Lake Michigan… Yan Fuqiang, a senior advisor on climate and energy in NRDC’s Beijing office, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times about China’s commitment to nuclear energy and warned that China needs to do more to update its safety standards…
In a Greenwire articled picked up by the New York Times, Taryn Kiekow warned that the proposed copper and gold mine Pebble Project in Bristol Bay Alaska will cause major environmental degradation and threaten the area’s salmon run… Whitney Leonard spoke with NBC Montana about the 560 bison being held in a capture facility in Montana and discussed the debate on bison population management…
