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Senate Votes To Give FDA Regulatory Power Over Tobacco [1]

"The tobacco-control movement celebrated another milestone yesterday as the U.S. Senate easily passed a bill giving the government unprecedented power over the making and marketing of tobacco products."

Health [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer [5], 06/12/2009
May 10, 2021

DEADLINE: The National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships [6]

This year-long fellowship will provide 12 early-career journalists with niche workshops, a reporting boot camp, customized webinars, registration to national conferences, access to unique resources and individual professional mentors to assist with career development. A collaboration of SEJ, AHCJ and CASW. Apply by May 10, 2021.

Workshops and Fellowships [7]
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Environmental Health [8]
Health [2]
Journalism & Media [9]
Science [10]

"WHO Team Found No 'Credible Link' Between Wuhan Labs, COVID-19" [11]

"The WHO team's main public conclusion so far is that it's "extremely unlikely" that the virus originated in a lab in Wuhan. The scientists think the virus most likely started in bats, then jumped to other animals, then to humans."

Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [8]
Health [2]
Science [10]
Public [3]
International [13]
Source: NPR [14], 02/18/2021

"Piecing Together the Next Pandemic" [15]

"From a small lab in Cambodia, Dr. Jessica Manning is on the lookout for emerging diseases."

Environmental Health [8]
Health [2]
Science [10]
Public [3]
International [13]
Source: NYTimes [16], 02/18/2021

Could Hackers Poison Your Local Drinking Water? [17]

A computer hacker nearly succeeded recently in rendering a local Florida facility a source of poisonous drinking water. And the risk of other such hacks is real, even as the vulnerabilities are hidden behind stringent U.S. secrecy laws. The latest TipSheet explores dangers to our drinking water supply — which go well beyond future hacking.

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TipSheet [18]
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Consumer [19]
Disasters [12]
Government [20]
Health [2]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [23]
Technology [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [26]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
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Public [3]
February 23, 2021

Reporting Fellow Alumni Panel: Science, Health, and Environmental Storytelling [28]

Join the Pulitzer Center, Missouri School of Journalism and Society of Environmental Journalists at 11:00 a.m. CT for a panel discussion on science, health, and environmental reporting. Four Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow alums will share their reporting experiences, and a Q&A session will follow.

Other Events [29]
SEJ Regional Conferences [30]
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Public [3]
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Climate Change [31]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Health [2]
Journalism & Media [9]
Planning & Growth [33]
Water & Oceans [25]

House Panel Renews Probe Into Trump Interference With Covid-19 Response [34]

"The head of a House oversight panel on Monday renewed its investigation into political interference in the nation’s coronavirus response, releasing new allegations of meddling in scientists’ work."

Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Politics [35]
Government [20]
Health [2]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Science [10]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: Washington Post [36], 02/09/2021

Top Biden Climate Advisor, Others Preview 2021 Energy and Enviro News [37]

President Biden’s national climate advisor Gina McCarthy joined an outspoken U.S. senator and a roundtable of elite journalists last week to preview dramatic changes possibly ahead in U.S. and international climate policy, environmental justice, clean energy and more. Get the upshot from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ 2021 Guide to Energy & Environment event. Plus, watch video of the full program [38].

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Climate Change [31]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [35]
Government [20]
Health [2]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [22]
Policy [40]
Science [10]
Water & Oceans [25]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [4]
California [41]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [42]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [43]
Northwest (OR WA) [44]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [45]
International [13]
Europe [46]
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Public [3]

Super-Heated Year Ahead on Energy & Environment News [47]

The Biden administration has moved rapidly to reset energy and environment policies dramatically shifted by the Trump White House. But how quickly can such a reversal occur, what are the priorities and what are the critical pathways for change? To help sort out the latest news and track larger trends, SEJournal offers this overview and analysis, part of our extensive “2021 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment [48].”

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [49]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [50]
Air [51]
Biodiversity [52]
Chemicals [53]
Climate Change [31]
Consumer [19]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [54]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [35]
Government [20]
Health [2]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Planning & Growth [33]
Policy [40]
Pollution [23]
Science [10]
Transportation [55]
Waste [56]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [57]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [4]
International [13]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

“Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene” [58]

A case study in how journalists can center environmental news around social justice is at the heart of a new volume of scholarly essays reviewed in the latest BookShelf. While its tale of rural residents poisoned by contaminants is decades old, its lesson of what happens when power players bank on media acquiescence holds for stories of today.

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [59]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [53]
Environmental Politics [35]
Health [2]
Journalism & Media [9]
Military [60]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [23]
Region: 
International [13]
Europe [46]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

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