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Tilling the Storytelling Fields on the Food, Ag and Environment Beat [1]

In his more than a decade at the helm of the Food & Environment Reporting Network, Samuel Fromartz was instrumental in shaping a new way of covering food, agriculture and environmental issues. As he prepares to turn over the top editor’s job to his successor, Fromartz talks about FERN’s innovative business model and the power of narrative.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [3]
Biodiversity [4]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Economy & Business [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [9]
Food [10]
Government [11]
Health [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Pollution [14]
Waste [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]
Visibility: 
Public [17]
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"U.S. Supreme Court Preserves California Humane Pig Confinement Law" [18]

"The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a California law banning the sale of pork in America's most-populous state from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces, rejecting an industry challenge claiming that the voter-backed animal welfare measure impermissibly regulates out-of-state farmers."

Agriculture [3]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Reuters [20], 05/12/2023
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June 1, 2023

Making the Climate Connection [21]

Join Sentient Media for a discussion on how to improve media coverage of the food-climate connection. Based on an upcoming report that found only 7% of 1000 articles mention animal agriculture; most cover climate impacts to livestock, not the animal ag industry as a source of greenhouse gas emissions. 12pm ET.

Other Events [22]
Visibility: 
Public [17]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [3]
Climate Change [5]
Journalism & Media [13]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]

Climate Change Forces a Rethinking of Mammoth Everglades Restoration Plan [23]

"Even as the $21 billion effort unfolds, officials realize that its water infrastructure cannot contend with rising seas, violent storms and Florida’s non-stop influx of residents."

Agriculture [3]
Biodiversity [4]
Climate Change [5]
Environmental Politics [24]
Natural Resources [25]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Source: Inside Climate News [28], 05/10/2023
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Puppy Mills: Iowa Still Leads The Nation In Both Violators And Citations [29]

"Iowa continues to lead the nation in the number of regulatory violations committed by puppy mills."

Agriculture [3]
Biodiversity [4]
Environmental Justice [9]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [17]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [30]
Source: States Newsroom [31], 05/09/2023
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Can Ethanol Fuel Ever Live Up to Its Hype? [32]

"The biofuel's bipartisan support isn't about science, but politics."

Agriculture [3]
Climate Change [5]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Transportation [34]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Grist [35], 05/09/2023
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"Some Farmers Resent Ethanol Industry’s Push For Carbon Pipelines" [36]

"Craig Schaunaman, who farms thousands of acres, has been invested in the ethanol industry since its early days and even served on the board of an ethanol plant. But a carbon-capture pipeline supported by dozens of ethanol plants would cross his land, and he’s against it, even though ethanol officials say the pipeline is crucial to the future viability of the industry.
 

Activism [37]
Agriculture [3]
Climate Change [5]
Economy & Business [7]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [24]
Infrastructure [38]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [30]
Source: States Newsroom [39], 05/08/2023
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"UN Warns Heat Records Could Be Broken As Chance Of El Niño Rises" [40]

"The chance of an El Niño weather phenomenon developing in the coming months has risen, the United Nations has said, warning that it could fuel higher global temperatures and possibly new heat records."

Agriculture [3]
Climate Change [5]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Natural Resources [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [17]
International [42]
Source: AFP [43], 05/04/2023
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"Inside Big Beef’s Climate Messaging Machine: Confuse, Defend And Downplay" [44]

"The US beef industry is creating an army of influencers and citizen activists to help amplify a message that will be key to its future success: that you shouldn’t be too worried about the growing attention around the environmental impacts of its production."

Agriculture [3]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Environmental Politics [24]
Food [10]
Journalism & Media [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [45], 05/04/2023
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"Senators Back Solar Tariffs, Oppose Prairie Bird Safeguards" [46]

"The Senate approved a measure Wednesday that would reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries after President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost solar installations in the U.S. Lawmakers also approved a separate plan to undo federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken...."

Agriculture [3]
Biodiversity [4]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [25]
Wildlife [47]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [48], 05/04/2023
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