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"House Bill Would Fully Fund U.S. Chemical Safety Board" [1]

"The U.S. Chemical Safety Board, which President Donald Trump proposed eliminating earlier this year, would be fully funded under an appropriations bill released Tuesday."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Houston Chronicle [9], 07/12/2017
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To Report on Drinking Water, Know Its Source [10]

Safe drinking water is a long-standing challenge left unmet all across the United States. As our latest Issue Backgrounder explains, telling the story of drinkable water requires digging beneath complex relationships, understanding the sources of drinking water and much more. Here's help to do it.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Backgrounders [11]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [2]
Consumer [12]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
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National (U.S.) [8]
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Public [7]
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Erin Brockovich Helps Pawnees Sue Fracking Firms Over Induced Quakes [18]

"Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is helping Oklahoma's Pawnee Nation take on several fracking companies in a lawsuit alleging that damages to its tribal buildings and reservation property was the result of man-made, or induced, earthquakes."

Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
Source: EcoWatch [21], 07/10/2017
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"Thousands Flee Wildfires In California; Canada Blazes Grow" [22]

"Wildfires barreled across the baking landscape of the western U.S. and Canada, destroying homes and forcing thousands of residents to flee."

Disasters [3]
Forests [23]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Canada [24]
Source: AP [25], 07/10/2017
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Hackers Targeting Nuclear Facilities, Homeland Security and F.B.I. Say [26]

"Since May, hackers have been penetrating the computer networks of companies that operate nuclear power stations and other energy facilities, as well as manufacturing plants in the United States and other countries."

Disasters [3]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [27]
Technology [28]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NY Times [29], 07/07/2017
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"Utah Wildfire Grows As 2 Powerful California Blazes Spread" [30]

"The nation's largest wildfire has forced more than 1,500 people from their homes and cabins in a southern Utah mountain area home to a ski town and popular fishing lake."

Disasters [3]
Forests [23]
Public [7]
California [31]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [32]
Source: AP [33], 06/27/2017
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"U.S. Gulf Coast Braces for Tropical Storm Cindy" [34]

"Communities and oil refining and production facilities from Texas to Florida braced on Tuesday for potential disruptions as Tropical Storm Cindy strengthened over the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, threatening to bring flash floods across parts of the northern Gulf Coast."

Disasters [3]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [35]
Source: Reuters [36], 06/21/2017
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"A U.S. Grid Clear Of 2016 Attacks Is Hardly Worry-Free — NERC" [37]

"The North American Electric Reliability Corp., in its 'State of Reliability 2017' report, noted there were no cybersecurity attacks that took down parts of the U.S. grid in 2016, but NERC officials took little comfort in the conclusion."

Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Military [38]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: EnergyWire [39], 06/20/2017
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"Canceled Flights, Burning Door Handles: Heat Hits Southwest" [40]

"Airlines canceled flights in Phoenix and doctors urged people to be careful around concrete, playground equipment and vehicle interiors Monday as a punishing heat wave threatens to bring temperatures approaching 120 degrees to parts of the Southwestern U.S."

Disasters [3]
Public [7]
California [31]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
Source: AP [41], 06/20/2017
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Between the Lines: Forged in Fire — Author Follows the Flames, and Fights Them, To Cover the Changing Nature of Wildfires [42]

The global rise of large-scale, intense and devastating wildfires is the subject of a new book by award-winning photojournalist Michael Kodas, who spoke with SEJournal's book editor about what makes these new fires so different, what role climate change plays and how he joined firefighters amid the flames.

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [43]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [44]
Disasters [3]
Forests [23]
Journalism & Media [45]
Planning & Growth [46]
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National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility: 
Public [7]
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