"The Refuge Revealed"
"Oil rigs may soon be coming to the nation’s largest wildlife refuge. We find out what that could mean to the people who live there."
Source: Reveal, 03/09/2020
Wildlife
"Bernhardt Defends Bird Treaty Rule Amid Verbal Combat in Senate"
"Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, visibly shaking and combative during a Senate hearing Wednesday, defended the Interior Department’s plan to re-interpret the Migratory Bird Treaty Act so that oil companies would not be fined for killing birds due to oil spills."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 03/05/2020
"Clean Water Rule: Science Advisory Board Slams Trump's WOTUS Rewrite"
"An EPA advisory panel has finalized a striking rebuke of the Trump administration's revamped Clean Water Act rule, saying critical elements are not adequately based on science."
Source: Greenwire, 03/05/2020
"Supreme Court: Justices Accept Endangered Species FOIA Plea"
"The Supreme Court today [Monday] agreed to hear a dispute over whether certain draft documentation of Endangered Species Act decisionmaking should remain off-limits to the public."
Source: Greenwire, 03/03/2020
Illustrating the Environment in a New Light
Freelance photographer Morgan Heim explores the ethical and creative considerations of non-traditional photography when reporting on wildlife issues, in a sidebar to the latest EJ InSight. See a slideshow of images with her unique approach. Plus, Heim on surviving in today’s constrained news media economy and the implications for storytelling, independence and integrity.
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Freelance Photographer Charts New Journalistic Path
How do you survive as a freelance wildlife photojournalist in today’s constrained news media economy? In the latest EJ InSight, photographer Morgan Heim shares the approach she has successfully pursued, and shares its implications for storytelling, independence and integrity. See a slideshow of her images. Plus, Heim explores the ethics of non-traditional photography.
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"Oil Industry Tool to Spare Polar Bears Is More Miss Than Hit"
"A new study casts doubt on the effectiveness of what is considered a state-of-the-art tool to help industry avoid injuring or disturbing polar bears by detecting their dens in the snow. Over more than a decade on the North Slope of Alaska, the study found, oil companies located fewer than half of the known dens of maternal bears and their infant cubs using airborne instruments called forward-looking infrared, or FLIR, cameras."
Source: NY Times, 02/28/2020
Judge Voids 1 Million Acres Of Oil And Gas Leases Over Public Input
"A federal judge in Idaho ruled Thursday that a Trump administration policy limiting public input on oil and gas leasing decisions was “arbitrary and capricious,” overturning the 2018 directive and voiding nearly 1 million acres of leases out West as a result."
Source: Washington Post, 02/28/2020
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