"For Maine dairy farmer Fred Stone, the discovery in 2016 that his cows were producing tainted milk has since brought financial ruin and threatened to shut down a century-old family business. Now state regulators and health experts are investigating whether the contamination could reflect a much broader problem for farms that used similar methods to fertilize their land."
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"The Oregon House approved a 10-year ban on fracking to explore for oil and natural gas."
"As part of its proposed budget for next year, the Trump administration wants to expand an EPA program that gives states regulatory authority for coal ash disposal."
"A treaty more than 150 years old shields tribal businesses from Washington state's gas tax, the Supreme Court ruled today."
"A growing number of cities are looking beyond the usual 100-year floodplain and requiring more homes to be built higher for their own protection. "
"Faced with reservoirs less than half full along the Colorado River, federal authorities and negotiators for Colorado and six other Western states on Tuesday finalized a landmark plan to share the burden of voluntarily using less water as growing cities and warming temperatures deplete the supply for 40 million people."
"A jury in the first federal court trial of thousands of lawsuits by cancer victims against the manufacturer of the world’s most widely used herbicide found Tuesday that Monsanto’s Roundup was a likely cause of a Sonoma County man’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma."
The 2019 Fromson Journalism Fellowship, May 31-Jun 7 in Israel, is for journalists who cover environment, renewable energy, water research and innovation. Theme is "AgTech in the Negev". Applications are due by May 1; however, selections will be made on an ongoing basis up to the deadline.
This annual workshop, hosted by Orion Magazine and the Omega Center for Sustainable Living, connects you with leading writers/editors. Learn more about environmental writing and deepen your relationship with place. Apply by Mar 15 (earlybird); May 1 (final) for the June 15-20, 2025 workshop in Rhinebeck, NY.
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/curious-case-tainted-milk-maine-dairy-farm
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-dairy-chemicals-idUSKCN1R01AJ
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/oregon-house-approves-10-year-ban-%E2%80%98fracking%E2%80%99
[4] https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/03/oregon-house-approves-10-year-ban-on-fracking.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-seeks-expanded-coal-ash-program-greens-pursue-litigation
[6] https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060127645
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/supreme-court-justices-side-tribal-firm-over-state-fuel-tax
[8] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060127639
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/not-trusting-fema-flood-maps-more-hurricane-hit-cities-set-own-rules
[10] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19032019/fema-flood-maps-risk-zones-cities-climate-change-mexico-beach-houston-outer-banks
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/timetable-deer-park-chemical-blaze-indefinite-fire-grows
[12] https://abc13.com/all-tank-fires-out-at-itc-facility-in-deer-park/5207523/
[13] https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Timetable-for-Deer-Park-chemical-blaze-indefinite-13701585.php
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/western-states-finalize-landmark-drought-plan-colorado-river-water
[15] https://www.denverpost.com/2019/03/19/colorado-river-drought-contingency-plan/
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/jury-finds-monsanto%E2%80%99s-roundup-likely-cause-cancer-2nd-bay-area-man
[17] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Monsanto-s-Roundup-found-by-jury-to-be-likely-13701218.php
[18] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-murray-fromson-journalism-fellowship
[19] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-orion-environmental-writers-workshop
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[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2047
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2044
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2045
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[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2050
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[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5009