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“What Bears Teach Us” [1]

Bears are incredibly complex animals with much to teach humans, writes the author of a new volume on grizzlies, black and polar bears. Our BookShelf review calls the text, which also integrates striking photographs, highly scientific yet accessible, and suggests it might go a long way to helping not just to understand bears, but improve their odds of survival.

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Studies [4]
Science [5]
Wildlife [6]
Region: 
International [7]
Canada [8]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
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"Brood X Cicadas Are About To Put On One Of The Wildest Shows In Nature." [10]

"They’ve been buried — alive — for 17 years. And now, Brood X, one of the world’s largest swarms of giant fly-like bugs called cicadas, is ready to rise. When the ground warms to 64 degrees, they’ll stop gnawing on tree roots and start scratching toward the surface by the hundreds of billions."

Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Studies [4]
Natural Resources [12]
Wildlife [6]
Public [9]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [14]
Source: Washington Post [15], 03/10/2021
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GOP Favorite Study Trashes Biden's Climate Plans – But Who's Behind It? [16]

"Wyoming representative Liz Cheney says the study proves Biden’s policies would destroy state economies. But it has the oil and gas industry’s fingerprints all over it".

Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Studies [4]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Floodlight/WPM [20], 03/10/2021
  • Read more about GOP Favorite Study Trashes Biden's Climate Plans – But Who's Behind It? [16]

"White House’s Reworked Climate Metric Draws Lawsuit from States" [21]

"Twelve states led by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R) filed suit Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, accusing President Joe Biden of exceeding the executive branch’s power in restoring Obama-era values for an analytical tool called the social cost of greenhouse gases."

Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Studies [4]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [23], 03/09/2021
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Interior Nears OK For First US Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Project [24]

"The Interior Department moved one step closer Monday to allowing for the construction of the country’s first commercial-scale offshore wind project."

Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Studies [4]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [19]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [26]
Source: The Hill [27], 03/09/2021
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"Huge Louisiana Coastal Project Receives Positive Report From The Corps" [28]

"One of the most expensive, ambitious and controversial proposals in Louisiana’s 50-year, $50 billion bid to save the southern third of the state from disappearing like a modern-day Atlantis passed a major milestone Thursday night with the release of a mostly positive assessment from the Army Corps of Engineers."

Environmental Studies [4]
Natural Resources [12]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [29], 03/08/2021
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"Supreme Court Records Ruling Spurs FOIA Reform Push" [30]

"Some environmental groups are urging Congress to make changes to the Freedom of Information Act in response to a Supreme Court ruling yesterday that allows the government to withhold certain draft records from public disclosure."

Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Studies [4]
Journalism & Media [31]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [32], 03/08/2021
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High Court: Barrett's First Ruling Hands Feds A Win In EPA Records Feud [33]

"The federal government does not need to disclose draft documents that informed its conclusions about the harm an EPA rule would pose to vulnerable plants and animals, the Supreme Court ruled today."

Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Studies [4]
Journalism & Media [31]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [12]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [34], 03/05/2021
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"Biden Reverts to Obama-Era Method of Valuing Climate Change" [35]

"The Biden administration is reverting to an Obama-era method of calculating the cost of greenhouse gases—a move that industry is almost certain to challenge."

Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Studies [4]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [37], 03/01/2021
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Teaching Environmental Journalism. For the First Time. In a Pandemic. [38]

An initiate to the ways of teaching collegiate journalism winds her way through unique obstacles of a first term under COVID-19, from students reporting in masks to class sessions on computer screens. Not to mention the already onerous challenges of training young journalists to report and write a range of environmental stories. EJ Academy has her story, from the stumbles to the successes.

SEJ Publication Types: 
EJ Academy [39]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Studies [4]
Health [40]
Journalism & Media [31]
Natural Resources [12]
Pollution [41]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [6]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [19]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [26]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
  • Read more about Teaching Environmental Journalism. For the First Time. In a Pandemic. [38]

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