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Senate Panel That Grilled Norfolk Southern CEO Is Awash In Company's Cash [1]

"Norfolk Southern’s corporate PAC has donated more than $375,000 to members of the Senate committee that grilled the railroad’s chief executive on Thursday about the toxic derailment of one of the company’s trains in East Palestine, Ohio."

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Source: HuffPost [9], 03/10/2023

"EPA Would Get 19% Boost to Record High Funding in Biden Budget" [10]

"The White House’s fiscal 2024 budget asks for $12 billion for the EPA, a 19% increase over its current enacted level and a record high amount that’s almost certain to be trimmed during congressional negotiations."

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Source: Bloomberg Environment [15], 03/10/2023

"Biden Budget Seeks Big Deficit Cuts In Challenge to GOP" [16]

"With the government at risk of defaulting, President Joe Biden on Thursday will make his opening offer in a high-stakes debate over federal finances as he proposes a federal budget that would cut deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade."

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Source: AP [17], 03/09/2023

"Same Message, Bigger Audience: Sen. Whitehouse Flags Climate Costs" [18]

"For more than a decade, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse gave daily warnings about the mounting threat of climate change. Now he has a powerful new perch."

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Source: NYTimes [20], 03/08/2023

"UAE's Jaber Urges Big Oil To Join Fight Against Climate Change" [21]

"A top oil executive from the United Arab Emirates on Monday urged the energy industry to join the fight against climate change, borrowing a famous line from a U.S. astronaut aboard a damaged spacecraft during the Apollo 13 mission in 1970."

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Source: Reuters [24], 03/07/2023

From Swine Waste, Student Journalist Extracts Prize-Winning Story [25]

Industrial hog farmers tout swine biogas as a clean, green energy source, but others point to its messy side. A young journalist who investigated the underreported stench of environmental racism associated with this technology learned valuable lessons along the way to producing a feature story that won her a Society of Environmental Journalists’ award for outstanding student reporting.

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Will Thousands of Orphan Wells Be Safely Plugged? [40]

Abandoned oil and gas wells are found in significant numbers in some 27 states. Reporters who want to track their status can dig into several databases, but will need to support their data crunching with lots of shoe-leather and ground-truth reporting. Reporter’s Toolbox has insights into what the databases offer. Plus, a primer on API numbers.

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Diving Deeper on the Wetlands Beat Yields Groundbreaking Coverage [47]

Two journalists covering water policy used a wide range of reporting techniques, from FOIA appeals to on-the-ground reporting, to get at the heart of how problems with wetlands and waterways in the United States are tied to climate change concerns. Inside Story spoke with Hannah Northey and Kevin Bogardus of E&E News about their award-winning beat reporting.

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March 9, 2023

The Changing Geopolitics of Critical Minerals and the Future of the Clean Energy Transition [51]

Join the Wilson Center virtually or in person in Washington, DC, 9:00-10:30 a.m. ET, to examine the challenges, policy options and strategic diplomatic alliances needed to minimize confrontation in order to realize individual national commitments and climate emission reduction targets, and more.

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"Study: Online Trade In Arachnids Threatens Some Species With Extinction" [54]

"A recent study reveals a vast and unregulated global trade in invertebrates, posing a risk of overexploitation of some species in the wild. ...  Africa is prominent in this trade as both a source and transit hub for tarantulas and scorpions."

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Source: Mongabay [56], 03/02/2023

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