"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
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"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
Trump Flack Tries To Spin Key CDC Weekly Report
More revelations of Trump administration duplicity on the science front, per the new WatchDog opinion column, which reports on a scoop about political appointees trying to warp weekly public health data to ensure they don’t undercut Trump’s political messaging. Oh, and Bob Woodward’s new book affirming the president knew of COVID-19’s dangers early on, but deliberately played them down.
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Chase Down Environmental Ballot Measures for State-Level Stories
Although the realities of the pandemic may mean fewer state and local ballot measures in the upcoming election — and the presidential contest is drawing much of the spotlight — they can still be potentially fruitful stories for reporters willing to seek them out. Here are eight top ways to track this year’s environment and energy ballot measures, from the latest Reporter’s Toolbox.
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Opinion: "Is This a Joke?" (Facebook and Climate)
"Facebook’s plan to combat climate misinformation running rampant on its site is here. It is a... “climate science information center” of facts, figures, and news stories about the climate crisis that obscures the systematic changes needed to address climate change while peddling tips that mirror Big Oil talking points. The whole thing is a giant hand-wave to distract us from looking at the real solutions to climate change and the role Facebook is playing in corroding them."
Source: Earther, 09/17/2020
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