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For Pruitt EPA, There Is No Bad News on Ozone Pollution [1]

Trying to figure out the air quality in your coverage area? The EPA may not be much help. But this week's TipSheet suggests some effective work-arounds for your reporting. Get the backstory on ozone standards, tips on how to track ozone "nonattainment" for your area and learn why smog matters so much to public health.

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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [3]
Chemicals [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Health [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Policy [11]
Pollution [12]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
California [14]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Visibility: 
Public [19]
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"Michigan, Enbridge Reach Deal To Boost Safety Of Pipelines" [20]

"Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Canadian oil transport company Enbridge Inc. announced a timeline Monday for determining the future of twin pipelines beneath the channel where Lakes Huron and Michigan converge."

Disasters [21]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [23]
Source: AP [24], 11/28/2017
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"A Poison In Our Island" [25]

"Rising seas caused by climate change are seeping inside a United States nuclear waste dump on a remote and low-lying Pacific atoll, flushing out radioactive substances left behind from some of the world’s largest atomic weapons tests."

Nuclear Power & Radiation [26]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [19]
Australia & Oceania [28]
Source: Australian ABC [29], 11/27/2017
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Trump Budget Kills Funds For Clean Tap Water In Struggling Small Towns [30]

"ST. JOSEPH, Louisiana – On a hot delta day, Roy Bowman fills a gallon jug from an Army green trailer-mounted water tank. All year, Bowman and his neighbors in this crushingly poor, mostly African American town perched on the west bank of the Mississippi River have gotten their water this way."

Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reveal [32], 11/22/2017
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"Toxic Algae: Once A Nuisance, Now A Severe Nationwide Threat" [33]

"MONROE, Mich. — Competing in a bass fishing tournament two years ago, Todd Steele cast his rod from his 21-foot motorboat — unaware that he was being poisoned."

Agriculture [34]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [23]
Source: AP [35], 11/21/2017
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"Google Earth Has Cars Sniffing U.S. Cities to Guard Your Health" [36]

"As firefighters fought to control deadly wildfires north of San Francisco last month, a small unit of Alphabet Inc.’s Google had a more modest goal. It had employees driving cars around loaded with air-monitoring equipment to measure how badly the smoke was polluting the air."

Air [3]
Environmental Health [31]
Pollution [12]
Technology [37]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Bloomberg [38], 11/21/2017
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FOIA Suit, Silence on Hog Farms & Sea-Level Rise, Plus Shield Laws [39]

A push for disclosure on hazardous air emissions from industrial hog farms, and reporting on how the coastal real estate industry works to block bad news about sea-level rise. That, plus the Bay Journal FOIAs the EPA over grant defunding, and a move in Congress towards a federal shield law, all in the latest WatchDog.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [40]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [3]
Climate Change [41]
Disasters [21]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
People & Population [27]
Planning & Growth [42]
Pollution [12]
Waste [43]
Water & Oceans [22]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [44]
Visibility: 
Public [19]
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Clean Power Plan Showdown Ahead, But Will It Matter? [45]

President Trump campaigned partly on the promise to abolish an Obama-era program to cut power plant CO2 emissions. But as TipSheet explains in the first in a series of special reports on key issues in the coming year, the program is tied up in complex court proceedings that may, in the end, be moot. Learn why.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [3]
Climate Change [41]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility: 
Public [19]
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"Emanuel Blasts EPA, U.S. Steel on Pollution; Plans To To Sue Company" [46]

"After announcing on Sunday the city’s intent to sue U.S. Steel for polluting Lake Michigan, Mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted the company and federal environmental regulators who’ve been “asleep at the switch” under the Trump administration."

Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [23]
Source: Chicago Sun-Times [47], 11/20/2017
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"How the U.S. Government Hid Fracking's Risks to Drinking Water" [48]

"A pivotal EPA study provided the rationale for exemptions that helped unleash the fracking boom. The science was suppressed to protect industry interests."

Economy & Business [49]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [6]
Pollution [12]
Science [50]
Technology [37]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: InsideClimate News [51], 11/17/2017
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