Energy: Top Stories
Last week our featured topic was Energy, hosted by Mike LaBonte and Jim Lang. The week was marked by the anniversaries of two energy industry catastrophes: The Exxon Valdez oil spill on March 24, and the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on March 28. Stories on both appeared in our list of top news and opinion.
Our top rated news story, 'Three Mile Island still haunts nuclear policy' came from the Salinas, Calif., based KSBW News. A 30-year retrospective on the meltdown at the now infamous Pennsylvania nuclear power plant, the story drew from books, media reports and sources familiar with the accident for its narrative. The story was not without flaws, however, as Jim Lang pointed out in his review.
"My only disappointment is that it ends with a single quote, an opinion from an engineer whose job it is to oppose nuclear power," said Jim, who worked for more than three decades in nuclear power research and management. "Unsupported opinions, even mine, shouldn't be accepted as fact."
In our top opinion, 'Drilling the Arctic for energy,' Scientific American interviewed ocean conservationist Jeff Short about the effects of drilling off the coast of Alaska for oil and gas. Short testified before Congress last week on the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez accident, warning that a similar event would be devastating to the environment and local population.
Another highly rated story came from a source not previously in the NewsTrust database. The Energy Daily, a trade publication, reported on objections from utility companies and state regulators to development of "green" transmission lines proposed by President Barack Obama. Salon also examined the obstacles to building infrastructure that would carry green energy long distances.
Other top energy stories covered cap and trade policy, oil scarcity and new energy technologies.
Here's a sampling of our top news and opinion on Energy:
News
Three Mile Island still haunts nuclear policy
KSBW.com
Green power line hits bumps from states, utilities
The Energy Daily
Europe's oil refining set to shrink
Reuters
The dirty green line
Salon
Obama's climate challenge: Winning the carbon game
Scientific American
Opinion
Drilling the Arctic for energy
Scientific American
On energy, let a thousand filaments bloom
National Journal
Where we are headed: Peak Oil and the financial crisis
The Oil Drum
Carbon caps are the best policy
Wall Street Journal
Power to the people: 7 ways to fix the grid
Wired
Energy: Most trusted stories (full listing)
Energy: Most recent stories (full listing)
Thanks to our hosts, Jim Lang and Mike LaBonte
We'd like to extend a warm thanks to our hosts Jim Lang and Mike LaBonte, who dug deep last week to find great journalism on Energy. Both are seasoned experts -- Jim in nuclear energy and Mike in the fields of electronic engineering and software development. Thanks for your leadership and great insights!
Review Form Update
We're pleased to announce the first of many changes slated to take place on NewsTrust.net this year.
Beginning today you'll notice several differences in our quick and full review forms. To better support our news literacy mission, we've made the following adjustments:
News Review Form
• Quick Review: replaced Information with Depth
• Full Review: replaced Depth with Relevance
Opinion Review Form
You can see these changes in the review forms by clicking on any story title (or Review button) on the NewsTrust site, emails, RSS or widgets.
This Week: Community Picks
This week on NewsTrust, we're featuring Community Picks -- great journalism surfaced by our community, on any topic. We're looking to promote more reviews and submissions from new members, not just hosts and editors. To join us, simply go to our Most Recent Stories page and start reviewing. For some quick review tips, check our FAQ.
Share Stories You Like
Try our new 'Like' feature, which lets you select stories you like and show them as 'Picks' on your profile. We invite you to use this new tool, so we can showcase your favorite news stories on our site. Try going to the stories you've reviewed recently and click on the 'Like' link for your favorites -- they'll appear in the 'Picks' section of your member profile. In coming days, we'll select the most interesting picks of the week and post them on our home page and the NewsTrust Blog.
-- By Derek Hawkins, with Fabrice Florin and Kaizar Campwala
Perfect domain name blog.newstrust.net
It is a pleasure to say about Russian Brides dating service
free of achargeattractive
source. Take a look
GreenRomance organic dating website - http://www.greenromance.com
for your needs.
Posted by: Geveremot | July 07, 2009 at 02:53 PM