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Sunday, April 05, 2009
Environment - Gary Post-Tribune reporter honored for enviromental coverage
From a story today in the Post-Trib:
The Alliance for the Great Lakes, an environmental advocacy group, has selected Gitte Laasby as its reporter of the year.Laasby, a Post-Tribune reporter for two years, will receive the award, which is known as the Great Lakes Ally Award, at a June 11 benefit in Chicago.
"Gitte was the first reporter to highlight that BP's proposed plant expansion could realize an increase in pollution in Lake Michigan," Alliance president Cameron Davis said. "Her reporting caused a chain reaction in the media, so elected officials and the public would understand the impact of the expansion."
BP is embarking on a $3 billion expansion of its Whiting plant in order to handle heavy Canadian crude oil. Laasby's reporting drew attention to the increase in sludge and ammonia that would be discharged into Lake Michigan as a result of the expansion.
"The health of the Great Lakes is better for your efforts," Davis wrote in a congratulatory letter to Laasby.
Davis praised Laasby's approach to reporting. "She's drilling and probing into what state and federal agencies are doing and not doing to protect the health of citizens and the environment. Probing and drilling are often missing in media reporting," he said.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 5, 2009 02:37 PM
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