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Unique Podcast Team Gives Voice to Troubled Communities Near Declining Salton Sea [1]

In the Coachella Valley east of Los Angeles, the massive Salton Sea is rapidly drying up, threatening vulnerable immigrant communities in a growing toxic environment. The Living Downstream podcast reported extensively on these hazards, winning third place in the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Awards for Reporting on the Environment’s explanatory reporting, small, category, in 2022. Inside Story spoke with one of the prizewinners.

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Inside Story [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [3]
Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Politics [9]
Health [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Natural Resources [12]
People & Population [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
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National (U.S.) [15]
California [16]
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Public [17]
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"Toxic Labor" [18]

"A warming planet is creating a booming and loosely-regulated disaster restoration industry fueled by immigrant labor. Without protection, workers are exposed to lethal toxins making them sick long after the cleanup."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Center for Public Integrity [21], 09/29/2023
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"Inside The Complex Effort To Rid Maui Of Toxic Fire Debris And Rubble" [22]

"One of the most complicated wildfire cleanup missions in recent memory is now underway on the Hawaiian island of Maui, where fleets of workers and equipment are being shipped to the island while officials plot how to carefully but quickly remove hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic debris."

Chemicals [23]
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Pollution [20]
Public [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [24]
Source: Washington Post [25], 09/29/2023
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World’s Poorest People Won’t Be Able To Migrate To Escape Climate Disasters [26]

"Climate change-driven heat waves, droughts, and floods will push vulnerable people into more extreme poverty, Harvard researcher says."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Environmental Justice [8]
People & Population [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [17]
International [27]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [28], 09/29/2023
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"As Waters Rise, a Community Must Decide: Do We Stay or Go?" [29]

"Faced with more frequent flooding and worse to come, the Philadelphia environmental justice community of Eastwick is grappling with difficult questions about its future: Will levees and flood walls protect them, or should residents abandon their homes and move to higher ground?"

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Environmental Justice [8]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [30]
Source: YaleE360 [31], 09/29/2023
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"Despite Climate Promises, Insurance Companies Are Still Covering Coal" [32]

"A new report finds that five major global insurers are still backing U.S. coal mines, even when they've promised not to."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [27]
Source: Grist [34], 09/29/2023
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"Shutdown Could Hinder Infrastructure Projects, Permits" [35]

"Concerns are mounting over impacts of a possible federal government shutdown on critical infrastructure projects and permitting activities."

Disasters [6]
Environmental Politics [9]
Government [36]
Infrastructure [37]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Natural Resources [12]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [39], 09/28/2023
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WA Prisoners Struggle With Wildfire Smoke As Ventilation Upgrades Go Unfunded [40]

"When the wildfire smoke arrives, Harry Whitman has nowhere to go. “When there’s smoke or there’s a fire, they lock you in,” Whitman said. Whitman, president of the advocacy group Black Prisoners’ Caucus, is incarcerated at Airway Heights Corrections Center."

Air [41]
Disasters [6]
Environmental Justice [8]
Pollution [20]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Northwest (OR WA) [42]
Source: Washington State Standard [43], 09/27/2023
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"‘We Can’t Drink Oil’: How A 70-Year-Old Pipeline Imperils The Great Lakes" [44]

"Tribes say Line 5 is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the Great Lakes, which contain a fifth of the Earth’s surface fresh water, and risks destroying their relationship with land and water".

Disasters [6]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Infrastructure [37]
Natural Resources [12]
People & Population [13]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [45]
Canada [46]
Source: Guardian [47], 09/27/2023
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"The Human Limit: The Inequality Of Heat" [48]

"After the third day without power, the residents of Kasia Bagan had had enough. Their city of Kolkata was in the midst of a blistering heat wave, with temperatures rising to 105 degrees, making life in the narrow lanes and in their tiny one-room homes nearly unbearable."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
People & Population [13]
Public [17]
International [27]
Asia [49]
Source: Washington Post [50], 09/26/2023
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