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The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) led by Internews’ Earth Journalism Network is offering Fellowship opportunities [8] for journalists to attend the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP 23) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany in mid-November 2017. Apply by Jul 21.
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"A handful of big fossil fuel producers have been responsible for the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions in the years since climate change seized the world's attention as a looming crisis, according to a new report issued today."
"Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is helping Oklahoma's Pawnee Nation take on several fracking companies in a lawsuit alleging that damages to its tribal buildings and reservation property was the result of man-made, or induced, earthquakes."
"LAKE STATION, Ind. — This hard-luck town just south of Chicago is weighing a decision confronting many small and midsize cities with shrinking populations and chronic budget deficits: whether to sell the public water system to a for-profit corporation."
"A federal court today vacated part of an Obama-era U.S. EPA rule for halting 'sham-recycling' of hazardous materials."
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[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/greens-slam-senate%E2%80%99s-energy-policy-bill
[4] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/341291-greens-slam-senates-energy-policy-bill
[5] https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/report-drinking-water-know-its-source
[6] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/maintenance-backlog-pothole-road-parks-consensus
[7] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-ccmp-journalism-fellowships-attend-un-climate-negotiations-bonn-germany
[8] http://earthjournalism.net/opportunities/ccmp-journalism-fellowships-to-attend-the-un-climate-negotiations-in-bonn-germany
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/smith-island-chance-shore-future
[10] http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-smith-island-jetty-20170707-story.html
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[12] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10072017/fossil-fuel-companies-responsible-global-emissions-cdp-report
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/erin-brockovich-helps-pawnees-sue-fracking-firms-over-induced-quakes
[14] https://www.ecowatch.com/brockovich-oklahoma-earthquakes-2455018237.html
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/towns-sell-their-public-water-systems-%E2%80%94-and-come-regret-it
[16] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/towns-sell-their-public-water-systems--and-come-to-regret-it/2017/07/07/6ec5b8d6-4bc6-11e7-bc1b-fddbd8359dee_story.html?utm_term=.bc66ee56e247
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hazardous-waste-court-rejects-obama-epas-bid-stop-sham-recycling
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