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Climate Refugees Tell Stories of Escaping Wildfires, Floods, and Droughts [1]

"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."

Source: The Intercept [2], 12/31/2018

Pelosi Picks Kathy Castor To Lead Select Committee On Climate Change [3]

"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."

Source: AP [4], 12/31/2018

'It's 'Going to End with Me': Fate of Gulf Fisheries in a Warming World [5]

"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."

Source: InsideClimate News [6], 12/31/2018

How 12 Communities Are Fighting Climate Change and What’s in Their Way [7]

"As the risks of climate grow increasingly clear and the damage rises, communities around the country are fighting back in their own ways."

Source: InsideClimate News [8], 12/31/2018

"Shutdown: As Funds Run Out, EPA Will Furlough 13,705 Employees" [9]

"Set to run out of carryover funds tonight [Friday], EPA will soon close and send thousands of employees home without pay."

Source: Greenwire [10], 12/31/2018

Trump’s Retreat on the Environment Is Affecting Communities Across U.S. [11]

"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."

Source: NY Times [12], 12/31/2018

Interior Proposes Rule To Make FOIA Requests Harder To Fulfill [13]

"Trump administration officials took steps on Friday to crack down on transparency at one of the largest US federal agencies, proposing a slew of changes that could make it harder for the public and media to obtain records of agency dealings."

Source: Guardian [14], 12/31/2018

New EPA Plan Could Free Coal Plants to Release More Mercury Into the Air [15]

"The Trump administration proposed on Friday major changes to the way the federal government calculates the benefits, in human health and safety, of restricting mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants."

Source: NY Times [16], 12/31/2018

Help Environmental Journalists Help Each Other [17]

SEJ board president Bobby Magill got his first freelance assignment from a connection he made at an SEJ conference. That assignment, and many others, helped him land a job at Climate Central covering national stories. Later, another SEJ connection helped him get a meeting — at another SEJ conference — with his future editor at Bloomberg Environment in Washington, D.C. Many of our members have similar stories of how SEJ has made a difference in their careers — and their lives. Read more and please give now [17].

Help Environmental Journalists Catch up to Climate Change [18]

This year, long-time SEJ member Meera Subramanian joined our board of directors to give back for the many ways SEJ has benefited her freelance career. As Meera puts it, "Earlier this month, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said: 'We are in deep trouble with climate change. Climate change is running faster than we are, and we must catch up sooner rather than later, before it is too late.' Part of catching up is supporting the organizations that support the journalists covering climate change and so many other important environmental issues around the world." Read more and please give now [18].

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