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For Oil Market Data, You Don’t Need Slippery Sources [1]

Tracking the oil market — or more precisely, the price of oil — will tell you a great deal about environmental issues, whether it be fracking, pipelines, land use, toxic emissions or more. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox helps you follow the data for your stories. Plus, a Backgrounder on Big Oil [2] and how it drives not just energy but environment stories.

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Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Natural Resources [7]
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National (U.S.) [8]
International [9]
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Public [10]

"Oil Spirals Below Zero in ‘Devastating Day’ for Global Industry" [11]

"The day started like any other gloomy Monday in the oil market’s worst crisis in a generation. It ended with prices falling below zero, thrusting markets into a parallel universe where traders were willing to pay $40 a barrel just to get somebody to take crude off their hands."

Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Public [10]
International [9]
Source: Bloomberg [13], 04/21/2020

Turmoil in World Oil Markets Tips Environmental Scales Too [14]

The dramatic drop in demand for oil, driven by the shutdown of world economies by coronavirus, has meant a corresponding fall in prices. And that has profound environmental implications. But it’s a complicated dynamic to assess. Our Issue Backgrounder provides a look under the hood of Big Oil, and explains what it means for environment reporters. Plus, a Reporter’s Toolbox for tracking the data [1].

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Backgrounders [15]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [16]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [17]
Government [18]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [7]
Policy [20]
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National (U.S.) [8]
International [9]
Europe [21]
Middle East [22]
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April 24, 2020

Climate Change and Coronavirus Panel [23]

The Princeton Environmental Activism Coalition's Zoom panel will ask tough questions and feature speakers Stephen Pacala, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor, Princeton University and co-director, Carbon Mitigation Initiative; Kian Mintz-Woo, Princeton's University Center for Human Values and the Princeton Environmental Institute; and SEJ president Meera Subramanian, independent journalist and Princeton's Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities.

Other Events [24]
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Public [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [16]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [4]

Supply Chain: "Empty Grocery Shelves and Rotting, Wasted Vegetables" [25]

"Covid-19 and climate change are testing a food system that critics say has lost its resilience."

Agriculture [26]
Climate Change [16]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Health [27]
Food [28]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: InsideClimate News [29], 04/20/2020

Analysis: "For Oil and Its Dependents, It’s Code Blue" [30]

"The great price collapse of 2020 will topple companies and transform states."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Public [10]
International [9]
Source: The Tyee [31], 04/20/2020

"With Fishing Fleets Tied Up, Marine Life Has a Chance to Recover" [32]

"Plummeting global demand for fish and seafood as a result of the coronavirus crisis is likely to create an effect similar to the halt of commercial fishing during World Wars I and II, when the idling of fleets led to the rebound of fish stocks."

Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [4]
Fish & Fisheries [33]
Public [10]
International [9]
Source: Bloomberg Green [34], 04/20/2020

"U.S. Weighs Paying Drillers to Leave Oil in Ground Amid Glut" [35]

"The Trump administration is considering paying U.S. oil producers to leave crude in the ground to help alleviate a glut that has caused prices to plummet and pushed some drillers into bankruptcy."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [17]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Bloomberg [36], 04/17/2020
April 27, 2020

COVID-19: Health, Science and Business Writers on Covering the Pandemic [37]

The Power Shift Project will host a free webinar, 1:00-2:00 pm ET, with Freedom Forum fellow Jill Geisler debriefing leaders of journalism organizations whose members focus on health, science and the economic impact of COVID-19, now and in the future. Speakers include SEJ executive director Meaghan Parker and SEJ president Meera Subramanian.

Other Events [24]
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Public [10]
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Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Health [27]
Journalism & Media [6]
Science [38]

"Coronavirus Wiped Out 2019's Clean Energy Job Gains – Report" [39]

"Clean energy industries lost more than 106,000 jobs last month due to the novel coronavirus pandemic and could end up shedding over 15% of their entire workforce this quarter, according to a report released yesterday."

Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: EnergyWire [40], 04/16/2020

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