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"Pruitt: National Fuel Standard Should Be 'Unified'" [1]

"Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt says he supports a unified national vehicle fuel standard, stoking state fears that the agency may do away with waivers allowing states to implement stronger standards."

Air [2]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The Hill [9], 01/31/2018
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Policy ‘Confrontation’ is Watchword, Say Journalists at Issue Look-Ahead Forum [10]

Top reporters at an event sponsored by the Society of Environmental Journalists predicted clashes in 2018 over climate, drilling on public lands, environmental laws, infrastructure, national monuments and more. Here's what these journalistic veterans forecast. Plus, check out the accompanying annual issues guide [11].

SEJ Publication Types: 
SEJ News [12]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [2]
Biodiversity [13]
Chemicals [14]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [17]
Health [18]
Journalism & Media [19]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Policy [20]
Science [21]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility: 
Public [7]
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"U.S. EPA Reverses Policy On 'Major Sources' Of Pollution" [22]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday it was withdrawing a provision of the Clean Air Act that requires a major source of pollution like a power plant to always be treated as a major source, even if it makes changes to reduce emissions."

Air [2]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Reuters [23], 01/26/2018
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"Dumpster Fire" [24]

"Two decades after its scheduled closure, a zombie garbage incinerator divides a working-class town in Massachusetts."

Air [2]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [6]
Waste [25]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Grist [26], 01/25/2018
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Charting the Year Ahead in Environment, Energy News [27]

This is a decisive time on the energy and environment front, with challenges and confrontation expected over the consummation of the Trump deregulatory agenda. Our second annual issues guide provides a roadmap for covering the big stories. The guide's formal launch took place at an SEJ event in Washington, D.C. [28] on January 26. If you missed it, the webcast is archived here [29].

SEJ Publication Types: 
Backgrounders [30]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [2]
Chemicals [14]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [31]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Forests [33]
Government [17]
Health [18]
Journalism & Media [19]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [34]
Policy [20]
Pollution [6]
Science [21]
Water & Oceans [35]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
Alaska and Hawaii [36]
California [37]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [38]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [39]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [40]
Northwest (OR WA) [41]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [42]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [43]
Central America & the Caribbean [44]
Visibility: 
Public [7]
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Governing May Not Come Naturally to Trump Agencies in 2018 [45]

The effectiveness of Trump administration governance looms large in environment stories for 2018, and this week's TipSheet looks at flash points like an Interior Department reorg and the reshaping of the EPA, plus budgets and shutdowns. Ideas to help you cover the story.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [46]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [2]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [17]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [34]
Policy [20]
Water & Oceans [35]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility: 
Public [7]
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"How Engineering Earth’s Climate Could Seriously Imperil Life" [47]

"Travel with me to the year 2100. Despite our best efforts, climate change continues to threaten humanity. Drought, superstorms, flooded coastal cities. Desperate to stop the warming, scientists deploy planes to spray sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere, where it converts into a sulfate aerosol, which reflects sunlight. Thus the planet cools because, yes, chemtrails."

Air [2]
Climate Change [3]
Technology [48]
Public [7]
International [49]
Source: WIRED [50], 01/23/2018
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"Minorities Along Great Lakes Face High Asthma Rates" [51]

"At a pediatric clinic located in one of the poorest sections of Buffalo, 7-year-old asthmatic Victor Small sits with his mother Laticka."

Air [2]
Environmental Health [15]
People & Population [52]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [53]
Source: Great Lakes Today [54], 01/19/2018
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Between the Lines: In Trump Era, Author Ponders What TR Would Do [55]

The environmental legacy of past presidents tells us much about the current White House, whose occupant author Douglas Brinkley calls "a used car salesman of the worst kind." In this "Between the Lines" Q&A, the historian talks about what we can learn from TR and FDR, the future of the environmental movement and the role of journalists.

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [56]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [57]
Agriculture [58]
Air [2]
Biodiversity [13]
Chemicals [14]
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [59]
Economy & Business [32]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Forests [33]
Government [17]
Journalism & Media [19]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [34]
People & Population [52]
Policy [20]
Pollution [6]
Science [21]
Waste [25]
Wildlife [60]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility: 
Public [7]
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"Feds: Carmakers Averaged Nearly 25 Mpg In 2016" [61]

"Automakers achieved an average of 24.7 miles per gallon for vehicles made during the 2016 model year, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."

Air [2]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [6]
Transportation [62]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Detroit News [63], 01/12/2018
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