"Trump, Biden Spar Over Climate Change At Debate"
"President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden sparred over climate change and their respective records on the issue during Tuesday night's presidential debate."
Source: The Hill, 09/30/2020
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Pa. Regulator Says Sunoco Must Do More To Share Pipeline Safety Info
"Pennsylvania’s utility regulator is siding with a Cumberland County man in his complaint against Sunoco’s Mariner East pipeline."
Source: StateImpact Pa., 09/29/2020
Why Reporters Should Catch the Watershed by the Tale
Drainage basin may not be the sexiest of ecosystem designations, but watersheds have essential stories to tell. And environment reporters would be wise to view them as regional beats all their own, argues a long-time watershed reporter, who explains why and offers a series of tips to help journalists get the best of the basin beat.
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Need Climate Questions? We’ve Got Climate Questions.
Climate change may have made an unexpected appearance at the raucous 2020 presidential debate last night, but it's equally important to quiz state and local candidates on the topic too. The latest TipSheet offers environment and energy journalists a list of 10 key climate change questions to ask in reporting elections in your coverage area.
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"Revealed: BP And Shell Back Anti-Climate Lobby Groups Despite Pledges"
"An Unearthed and HuffPost investigation identified at least eight trade associations the companies failed to disclose in transparency reports."
Source: HuffPost, 09/28/2020
"EPA to Promote Lead Testing Rule as Trump Tries to Burnish His Record"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to overhaul the way communities test their water for lead, a policy change that will be pitched ahead of Election Day as a major environmental achievement for a president not noted for his conservation record."
Source: NYTimes, 09/28/2020
"Corporations Roll Out Climate Goals Amid Growing Pressure To Deliver"
"Companies are increasingly setting their own goals for carbon neutrality in the absence of a federal plan to address global warming, bracing their business for the stark financial realities wrought by climate change."
Source: The Hill, 09/25/2020
Nearly 40 Dem Senators Call For Climate Change Questions In Debates
"Almost 40 Democratic senators wrote to the Commission on Presidential Debates on Wednesday urging questions focused on climate change to be included in the presidential debates."
Source: The Hill, 09/24/2020
The Winner of the 2020 Nina Mason Pulliam Award Is "Polluter's Paradise"
The Nina Mason Pulliam Award judges chose "Polluter's Paradise" as the "best of the best," after reviewing all the first-place winners of SEJ's 2020 Awards for Reporting on the Environment. The $10,000 prize and congratulations go to Tristan Baurick, Joan Meiners, Gordon Russell and Sara Sneath of The Times-Picayune and The Advocate; and Lylla Younes, Al Shaw and Claire Perlman of ProPublica.
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Former EPA Heads, From Both Parties, Rebuke Trump Environment Record
"Four former heads of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Democrats and Republicans, on Monday issued a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration’s record on the environment after the current administrator said the agency is focused on “work that has been neglected for years.”"
Source: Reuters, 09/22/2020
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