"Why 3.6M Pounds Of Nuclear Waste Is Buried On A Popular California Beach"
"The San Onofre nuclear power plant shut down years ago – but residents and experts worry what will happen with the waste left behind".
Source: Guardian, 08/25/2021
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"House Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan for Vast Expansion of Safety Net"
"A divided House on Tuesday approved a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint that would pave the way for a vast expansion of social safety net and climate programs, as Democrats overcame sharp internal rifts to advance a critical piece of President Biden’s ambitious domestic agenda."
Source: NYTimes, 08/25/2021
"Wildfire Smoke: An Emerging Threat to West Coast Wines"
"As climate change brings longer, more destructive fire seasons, the wine industry scrambles to protect vineyards from the dreaded taint of smoke."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/24/2021
"Megadrought to Pit Fish Lives Against Human Needs in U.S. West"
"Water cuts aimed at farmers amid the West’s megadrought have set the stage for bitter legal and political fights over one of the most overlooked water uses—the right of water to remain in streams to sustain fish and endangered species, lawyers say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/24/2021
"Heat Kills. This Underfunded Program Could Help."
"Heat kills in the big city. So does lack of air conditioning. Of the roughly 70 New Yorkers directly killed by heat exposure in their own homes over the past decade, the majority — some 80% — did not own air conditioners, and those who did weren’t running them when they died."
Source: E&E News, 08/24/2021
Formaldehyde Causes Leukemia: EPA Assessment Suppressed Under Trump
"Although the formaldehyde assessment has grave implications for public health, Trump administration officials refused to allow the EPA to release it."
Source: The Intercept, 08/24/2021
SEJournal Fills Associate Editor Slot, Expands Feature Content
SEJournal has a new face — that of just-hired Associate Editor Frances Backhouse, a long-standing member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and a veteran freelancer and author based in Canada. Backhouse will work with the SEJournal’s staff and volunteer editor team to bring in new features from volunteer contributors with journalistic and environmental expertise to share. Meet Backhouse and find out more about her role at the weekly online magazine.
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Air Quality Monitors — and Their Data — Now Easy To Find Via Online Map
High-impact environmental stories often come by tracking polluted air, whether from summer smog, wildfire smoke or numerous other sources. Reporter’s Toolbox offers a series of air pollution data reporting resources, including an interactive map of U.S. air quality monitors. Get the details, plus eight smart suggestions for critical stories from the air pollution data you tap.
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Reporting Innovations Hold Promise for Reporting on Climate Change Amid News Deserts
Slashed news budgets and staff cuts have left many U.S. newsrooms short on time and resources for deep reporting on climate change and other complex topics. But two innovative projects at The Post and Courier in South Carolina — one enriching breaking news stories and the other fostering news outlet cooperation — aim at filling the void. Acclaimed journalist Tony Bartelme explains.
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Pulitzer Finalist on an Estuary’s Tale, and Stories Hiding in Plain Sight
Prize-winning journalist Tony Bartelme and his local news team enter one of the East Coast’s largest, but lesser known estuaries, and come out with an account that awards judges called “gorgeously executed in the best tradition of storytelling about the environment.” Bartelme shares lessons of covering the challenges of an amorphous ecosystem, and touches on his long record of award-winning reporting, in the latest Inside Story.
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