"A U.S. Geological Survey lab in Seattle leached pathogen-laced wastewater into a Seattle wetland, possibly endangering salmon and trout, and has attempted to fire an employee who blew the whistle on the lab, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility."
"Flood insurance is sold as protection from climate change. As costs rise, it could push people from their homes instead."
"The Trump administration has unexpectedly halted a project to protect the New York City region from flooding during dangerous storms like Hurricane Sandy — a decision that came six weeks after President Trump took to Twitter to ridicule the study’s most expensive proposal, a giant sea wall that could have cost billions of dollars."
"A Costa Rican indigenous defender has been killed by an armed mob while trying to reclaim ancestral land – the latest in a spate of violence targeting native communities in Central America’s safest country."
"It cost $1,000 for Patricia Qasimah Boston to fly from Tallahassee to Washington and stay in a hotel. She traveled 800 miles for a three-minute appearance at a public hearing held Tuesday by the Council on Environmental Quality, a White House agency that recently proposed to weaken the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act."
The Small Business Administration announced an "environmental roundtable [12]" Feb. 28, as being “open to all interested persons, with the exception of the press." The Society of Environmental Journalists, through its Freedom of Information Task Force, has protested this in a Feb 21 letter (full text [13]).
The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources will provide grants up to $15,000 USD for reporting projects on Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) in Canada, with a particular focus on marine areas. Open to all journalists; projects led by or including Indigenous journalists are strongly encouraged. Deadline is Mar 29, 2024.
"Penned in by freeways, LA’s big cats face extinction – but a new wildlife crossing might be the answer".
"JPMorgan Chase, one of the world’s biggest lenders to fossil fuel projects, announced Monday that it would curb loans to coal firms and bar the financing of oil and gas developments in the Arctic."
"The Alberta Court of Appeal has concluded the federal government’s carbon tax is an unconstitutional intrusion into provincial powers, handing Alberta a key victory in its battle with Ottawa over climate-change policies."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/usgs-whistleblower-alleges-poor-lab-conditions-water-pollution
[2] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/usgs-whistleblower-alleges-poor-lab-conditions-water-pollution
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-change-soaring-flood-insurance-could-trigger-mortgage-crisis
[4] https://publicintegrity.org/environment/flood-insurance-climate-change-risk-inequality/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/after-trump-mocks-sea-wall-new-york-plan-abruptly-shelved
[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/nyregion/sea-wall-nyc.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/costa-rican-indigenous-land-activist-killed-armed-mob
[8] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/25/costa-rican-indigenous-land-activist-killed-by-armed-mob
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/passionate-public-comments-slam-trump-nepa-rule-rollback-proposal
[10] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/25/nepa-trump-rollback/
[11] https://www.sej.org/sej-protests-sba-no-journalists-environmental-roundtable
[12] https://advocacy.sba.gov/2020/02/10/sba-office-of-advoacy-environmental-roundtable-february-28-2020/
[13] https://www.sej.org/sites/default/files/SBA%20Letter%20signed%202.pdf
[14] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-ijnr-grants-reporting-marine-indigenous-protected-areas-canada
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/can-there-be-hollywood-ending-brad-pitt-mountain-lions
[16] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/22/can-there-be-a-hollywood-ending-for-the-brad-pitt-of-mountain-lions-aoe
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/jpmorgan-chase-takes-baby-step-toward-curbing-fossil-fuel-loans
[18] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/jpmorgan-chase-takes-baby-step-toward-curbing-fossil-fuel-loans/2020/02/24/5932f82a-5745-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/alberta-court-rules-federal-carbon-tax-unconstitutional
[20] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-court-rules-federal-carbon-tax-is-unconstitutional/
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1696
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1693
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1694
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1695
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1698
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1699
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1700
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1701
[30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4920