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Grant Gives Reporter Time To Immerse in Sewage Story [1]

The “underworld” of sewage treatment had fascinated one journalist for years. But it was only after winning a reporting grant that Christine Woodside had the luxury of spending dozens of hours to focus on how one old, malfunctioning plant left a local community appalled and angered. Woodside shares the details in the latest installment of SEJournal’s newest column, FEJ StoryLog.

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FEJ StoryLog [2]
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Activism [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Journalism & Media [5]
People & Population [6]
Pollution [7]
Waste [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
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National (U.S.) [10]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [11]
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Public [12]
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Climate Change Policy Likely To Permeate Executive Under Biden [13]

What will climate change policy look like under a Biden administration? If nothing else, it appears it will be broadly based across a wide range of executive branch operations. This week’s TipSheet walks you through the top 10 federal departments, agencies and spending centers and how they will pivot to focus on global warming. 

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Agriculture [15]
Air [16]
Chemicals [17]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Forests [21]
Government [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Military [24]
Natural Resources [25]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [26]
Policy [27]
Pollution [7]
Science [28]
Technology [29]
Transportation [30]
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National (U.S.) [10]
International [31]
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Public [12]
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"How Scientists Tracked Down a Mass Killer (of Salmon)" [32]

"Something was decimating the salmon that had been restored to creeks around Puget Sound."

Chemicals [17]
Fish & Fisheries [33]
Pollution [7]
Transportation [30]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: NYTimes [34], 12/04/2020
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"Automakers Pledge To Work With Biden To Reduce Emissions" [35]

"A group representing major automakers on Tuesday vowed to work with President-elect Joe Biden on efforts to reduce vehicle emissions even as the industry remains split over whether to let California set its own emission rules."

Air [16]
Climate Change [36]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [7]
Transportation [30]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Reuters [37], 12/02/2020
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"Air Monitors Routinely Miss Pollution - Even Refinery Explosions" [38]

Standard methods of monitoring air pollution are missing major pollution incidents.

Air [16]
Pollution [7]
Science [28]
Technology [29]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Reuters [39], 12/02/2020
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Carmakers Map Out Shifting Road Ahead [40]

Automakers are at the heart of the conflict over climate change policy, thanks to the prevalence of transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. That may now be changing. And not just because of the incoming Biden administration, but also with shifting investment in the future of electric vehicles. A look at how car companies are piloting that path, from the latest Backgrounder. Electric Hummer, anyone?

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Backgrounders [41]
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Air [16]
Climate Change [36]
Consumer [42]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Government [22]
Health [43]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Policy [27]
Pollution [7]
Transportation [30]
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National (U.S.) [10]
California [44]
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Public [12]
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"Wildfire Smoke Is Poisoning California’s Kids. Some Pay a Higher Price" [45]

"The fires sweeping across millions of acres in California aren’t just incinerating trees and houses. They’re also filling the lungs of California’s children with smoke, with potentially grave effects over the course of their lives."

Air [16]
Climate Change [36]
Disasters [46]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [47]
People & Population [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: NYTimes [48], 11/30/2020
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"U.S. Justice Department Sues Over Puyallup River Pollution" [49]

"The Justice Department has filed a civil suit against the owners of the Electron Hydroelectric Project for violating the Clean Water Act by polluting the Puyallup River."

Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [12]
Northwest (OR WA) [50]
Source: Seattle Times [51], 11/27/2020
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"Trump Rule Eases Effort To Strip-Mine Near Okefenokee Swamp" [52]

"When an Alabama company called Twin Pines Minerals proposed to strip mine for titanium just outside the fragile Okefenokee Swamp, environmental groups and even federal agencies went up in arms."

Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [53]
Source: Washington Post [54], 11/27/2020
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Illegal Tampering by Diesel Pickup Owners Is Worsening Pollution: EPA [55]

"The owners and operators of more than half a million diesel pickup trucks have been illegally disabling their vehicles’ emissions control technology over the past decade, allowing excess emissions equivalent to 9 million extra trucks on the road, a new federal report has concluded."

Air [16]
Consumer [42]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [7]
Transportation [30]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: NYTimes [56], 11/27/2020
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