"20% of Dams In Populated Areas Lack Emergency Plan"
"As the nation's 84,000 dams continue to age, a growing number of people downstream are at risk, experts say."
Source: USA TODAY, 02/22/2017
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"Skin Deep: Feeding the Global Lust for Leather"
"Leather processing is big business in Bangladesh, India, and other parts of the developing world, where regulations are lax and poisons run freely."
Source: Undark, 02/21/2017
"Everglades Restoration Alliance Teeters As Fla. Plans Refuge Takeover"
"LOXAHATCHEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Fla. — Florida water managers are preparing to evict the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this summer from a swath of Everglades that it's managed for 66 years."
Source: Greenwire, 02/21/2017
Trump To Roll Back Obama Climate, Water Rules Through Executive Action
"President Trump is preparing executive orders aimed at curtailing Obama-era policies on climate and water pollution, according to individuals briefed on the measures."
Source: Washington Post, 02/21/2017
As Fight Flares Over Public Lands, Summoning Power of Past Bond
Bobby Magill, in his most recent SEJ President's Report, recalls his time traversing federal wilderness areas that are now increasingly the subject of dispute. How are they to be used? Who is to hold them? Will these vast Western lands remain in the public domain? And what is the role of journalists in covering this story?
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Toxics Database a Key Tool for Environmental Journalists
The Toxics Release Inventory has long been a vital reporting tool, and now there's a new edition of the database, issued last month by the outgoing Obama administration. Reporter's Toolbox walks you through how to smartly mine TRI for stories, whether you're a newbie or a veteran. Plus, TRI caveats.
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"Politics-Wary Scientists Wade into the Trump Fray at Boston Rally"
"Hundreds of scientists put aside their habitual wariness toward political activity and rallied over the weekend in Boston’s Copley Square, with many saying the Trump administration has left them no choice."
Source: Scientific American, 02/20/2017
"Border Wall Would Cleave Tribe, and Its Connection to Ancestral Land"
"The phone calls started almost as soon as President Trump signed his executive order, making official his pledge to build a wall to separate the United States from Mexico."
Source: NY Times, 02/20/2017
Lead Ammunition Poisons Wildlife But Too Expensive To Change: Hunters
"On the day before President Trump's inauguration, the outgoing Obama administration passed a last-minute directive, banning the use of lead ammunition and fishing sinkers on federal land."
Source: NPR, 02/20/2017
NRA Pushes Congress To Legalize Killing Bear Cubs In Wildlife Refuges
"The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to legalize the killing of black bear cubs and their mothers at their dens in Alaska’s national wildlife refuges."
Source: Think Progress, 02/20/2017
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