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"Drought Turns Amazonian Capital Into Climate Dystopia" [1]

"A withering drought has turned the Amazonian capital of Manaus into a climate dystopia with the second worst air quality in the world and rivers at the lowest levels in 121 years."

Air [2]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Natural Resources [5]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
International [9]
South America [10]
Source: Guardian [11], 10/19/2023
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Foul-Smelling Biofuels Plant In Southwest Dallas Is Shutting Down [12]

"A plant near homes in southwest Dallas that renders animal fat into biofuel is shutting down after The Dallas Morning News found that it appears to be operating without proper zoning. Neighbors have complained for years about the smell of dead and rotting animals that they say comes from the facility owned by Envirotein."

Air [2]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [6]
Public [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [15]
Source: Dallas Morning News [16], 10/18/2023
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Little-Known Pollution Rule Keeps The Air Dirty For Millions Of Americans [17]

"A legal loophole has allowed the US Environmental Protection Agency to strike pollution from clean air tallies in more than 70 counties, enabling local regulators to claim the air was cleaner than it really was for more than 21 million Americans."

Air [2]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [19], 10/18/2023
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Texas Quietly Sets Weak Cancer Risk Standard For Industrial Air Pollution [20]

"The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has quietly proposed maintaining a target cancer-risk level for air pollution permits that scientists and public health officials consider inadequate to protect public health, especially for communities like those east of Houston that are exposed simultaneously to many sources of industrial emissions."

Air [2]
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [6]
Public [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [24], 10/17/2023
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Watchdog Finds La. Honeywell Chemical Plant Isn’t Reporting Emissions of CFCs [25]

"U.S. chemical manufacturer Honeywell International released chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)—climate super-pollutants and ozone depleting substances that are banned except for limited uses under an international environmental agreement—according to a report released Oct. 10 by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a non-profit environmental organization based in Washington, D.C."

Air [2]
Chemicals [21]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 10/17/2023
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Refrigerants Are A Nightmare For The Climate. Alternatives Must Spread Fast [27]

"When Jennifer Byrne, owner and technician at Comfy Heating and Cooling, gets a call to come and fix a relatively new air conditioning system, one of the first questions she asks is if the house has just been remodeled."

Air [2]
Chemicals [21]
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [28]
Pollution [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [9]
Source: AP [29], 10/16/2023
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Prying Open the Statehouse Doors [30]

Reporting on environmental stories often leads to the state legislature, where key material can be frustratingly hard to access. Whether that’s because the state is deliberately hiding information, has poor systems for sharing it or isn’t even tracking it, there are ways to get what you need. Four seasoned environment reporters offer tips, tricks and commiseration.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [31]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [2]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Government [33]
Infrastructure [34]
Journalism & Media [35]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [5]
Policy [36]
Water & Oceans [7]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [18]
California [37]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [38]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [39]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [15]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
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Here’s Your Handy Doomsday Dataviz Dashboard [40]

If you’re harboring serious doubts about the climate future but want to be prepared to cover it, the latest Reporter’s Toolbox offers up a seasonably ghoulish list of a dozen and a half great visualization sources to help tell the story. And lest it leave you spooked, remember, as the saying goes, everything will be OK in the end. And if it's not OK, it's not the end.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Reporters Toolbox [41]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [2]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Health [22]
Health [42]
Journalism & Media [35]
Water & Oceans [7]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [18]
International [9]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
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October 25, 2023

SEJ Webinar: Mining Public Records To Unearth Air Pollution [43]

In this SEJ webinar, join California Newsroom reporter Molly Peterson and MuckRock data reporter Dillon Bergin to learn how to turn a question into an effective public records request; find the records you want and use them in your reporting; and see how you can use data from a recent investigation to scrutinize air pollution erased from the regulatory record near you. 1-2pm ET.

SEJ Regional Conferences [44]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [2]
Government [33]
Health [42]
Journalism & Media [35]
Pollution [6]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [18]

Watchdog Group Warns Of Big Ongoing Flaw In A Montreal Ozone Treaty [45]

"Findings by the Environmental Investigation Agency point to a perceived loophole in the Montreal Protocol".

Air [2]
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [6]
Public [8]
International [9]
Source: Washington Post [46], 10/11/2023
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