The Trump administration’s “war on science” is playing out not just at the EPA, with its controversial proposed “secret science” rule, but at federal agencies throughout the government. This special TipSheet lays out the conflict, and offers guidance on how to turn the overarching issue into a story with character and a regional or local sense of place. Plus, see more in our ongoing 2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment.
"Gulping down oysters has long been a favourite New Year's Eve ritual for the French, but as winters get warmer and summers get drier many growers worry there will soon be fewer of the prized mollusks to go around."
Every presidential administration tries to influence the press — and sometimes can even stand in the way of reporters doing their jobs. But no previous administration has ever labeled reporters the “enemy of the people,” as President Trump has done, over and over again.
From the U.S. EPA to Interior, SEJ has challenged government attempts to block press freedom; joined hundreds of other news organizations across the country to stand up to Trump’s bullying; confronted dozens of challenges to press freedom in recent years; and jumped in to defend journalists reporting on Standing Rock, photographers working in National Forests and publications awaiting FOIA requests.
SEJ is proud to defend the crucial work of environmental reporters. With your continued support, we’ll keep speaking out in 2019. Read more and please give now [4].
"A critically endangered right whale calf was spotted off Jacksonville on Friday, the first calf of the species seen in nearly two years, giving local whale watchers high hopes for the coming weeks."
"Tens of thousands of U.S. residents were displaced by climate change-fueled disasters in 2018. California saw a string of massive wildfires — from the Mendocino Complex in July, which became the state’s largest wildfire on record, to the Camp fire in November, which was the deadliest. Meanwhile, Hurricane Florence, the second rainiest storm in 70 years of U.S. record-keeping, was quickly forgotten as Hurricane Michael slammed into the Gulf Coast, the third strongest ever to make landfall in the U.S."
"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appointed Rep. Kathy Castor on Friday to lead a select committee on climate change when Democrats retake the majority in the new year."
"As global warming changes the Texas coast and cheap food imports flood the country, the people who make their living off oysters and shrimp are disappearing."
"As the risks of climate grow increasingly clear and the damage rises, communities around the country are fighting back in their own ways."
"Set to run out of carryover funds tonight [Friday], EPA will soon close and send thousands of employees home without pay."
"In just two years, President Trump has unleashed a regulatory rollback, lobbied for and cheered on by industry, with little parallel in the past half-century. ... The trade-offs, while often out of public view, are real — frighteningly so, for some people — imperiling progress in cleaning up the air we breathe and the water we drink, and in some cases upending the very relationship with the environment around us."
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[2] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-change-takes-toll-french-oyster-farmers
[3] https://www.afp.com/en/news/3954/climate-change-takes-toll-french-oyster-farmers-doc-1bv1yh1
[4] https://www.sej.org/help-environmental-journalists-hold-governments-accountable
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/right-whale-watchers-rejoice-calf-spotted-jacksonville-coast
[6] https://www.newsherald.com/news/20181230/right-whale-watchers-rejoice-as-calf-spotted-off-jacksonville-coast
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-refugees-tell-stories-escaping-wildfires-floods-and-droughts
[8] https://theintercept.com/2018/12/29/climate-change-refugees/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pelosi-picks-kathy-castor-lead-select-committee-climate-change
[10] https://www.apnews.com/50d2e368895a3785cd2851db3bc0fae3
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/its-going-end-me-fate-gulf-fisheries-warming-world
[12] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122018/climate-change-shrimp-oysters-fisheries-gulf-global-warming-hurricanes
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-12-communities-are-fighting-climate-change-and-what%E2%80%99s-their-way
[14] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26122018/climate-change-solutions-obstacles-2018-year-review-oil-lawsuits-clean-energy-urban-planning
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/shutdown-funds-run-out-epa-will-furlough-13705-employees
[16] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060110669
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump%E2%80%99s-retreat-environment-affecting-communities-across-us
[18] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/26/us/politics/donald-trump-environmental-regulation.html
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