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Big Environmental Impacts on Small Communities Is Story That Must Be Told [1]

While environmental journalists often focus on regulatory wrestling matches in Washington, D.C., a seasoned New York Times investigative reporter argues the most important stories are those in the real communities where bureaucratic impacts are felt. Three-time Pulitzer winner Eric Lipton makes the case for public service in journalism that tells the environment story from the outside in.

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Features [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [3]
Air [4]
Chemicals [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Government [9]
Health [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Policy [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [18]
California [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [21]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [24]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [25]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
Visibility: 
Public [27]
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"A Dangerous Cocktail Threatens The Gem Of North Idaho" [28]

"Upstream mining has left a toxic legacy at the bottom of Coeur d’Alene Lake."

Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Wildlife [29]
Public [27]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Source: High Country News [30], 06/25/2019
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"Philadelphia Refinery Fire Puts Focus On Toxic Chemical" [31]

"An explosion and fire at Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery has people concerned about hydrogen fluoride."

Chemicals [5]
Disasters [32]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Pollution [15]
Technology [33]
Public [27]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer [34], 06/25/2019
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"Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Giant Plastic Trap Put To Sea Again" [35]

"A floating device designed to catch plastic waste has been redeployed in a second attempt to clean up a huge island of garbage swirling in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii."

Pollution [15]
Waste [36]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [27]
International [37]
Source: AP [38], 06/24/2019
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"Chesapeake Bay 'Dead Zone' Could Be Largest In Decades, Scientists Say" [39]

"An area of little to no oxygen could pose a threat to marine life in the Chesapeake Bay this summer. Ecologists from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the University of Michigan predict the "dead zone" could be about 2.1 cubic miles — making it one of the largest in the past 20 years."

Fish & Fisheries [40]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [27]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Source: Salisbury Daily Times [41], 06/24/2019
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Wilderness Society Sues Trump Administration To Get Mine Rule Docs [42]

"The Wilderness Society is suing the Trump administration to try to force the release of documents on its decision to lift restrictions on mining upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota."

Forests [43]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [27]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Source: AP [44], 06/21/2019
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Clean Water Act: Did Burning River Really Fuel Landmark Law's Passage? [45]

"In 1969, Cleveland's Cuyahoga River burned for the last time. It was a short blaze, under control within 30 minutes and fully extinguished within two hours."

Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [27]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Greenwire [46], 06/19/2019
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Database Helps Track PFAS Drinking Water Contamination [47]

Millions of people across the United States are believed to be drinking PFAS-contaminated water. And a growing database could prove an invaluable resource for environmental journalists trying to get a handle on that public health risk. Our latest biweekly Reporter’s Toolbox, recently refocused on data journalism tools and techniques, explains how to tap the expanding PFAS data.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Reporters Toolbox [48]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [5]
Consumer [49]
Government [9]
Health [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [50]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [24]
Visibility: 
Public [27]
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"U.S. Backs G-12 Plastics Deal, But Climate Split Persists" [51]

"The United States and Japan joined 18 other countries yesterday in backing the creation of a new international "framework" to curb ocean plastics after rejecting a stronger Canadian proposal on the same topic last year."

Consumer [49]
Pollution [15]
Waste [36]
Public [27]
International [37]
Source: ClimateWire [52], 06/17/2019
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"Newly Released Documents Detail EPA’s Concerns Over PolyMet" [53]

"Documents that the federal Environmental Protection Agency tried to keep confidential show that its staffers criticized how Minnesota regulators drafted a key permit for the planned PolyMet copper-nickel mine, and concluded that the permit would violate federal law because it lacked pollution limits based on the state’s water quality standards."

Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [27]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Source: AP [54], 06/17/2019
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