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Philly Steaks Out New Ground [1]

It just wouldn’t be the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference recap without the waggish tales of SEJ’s resident wit, David Helvarg, who once again this year skewers the lot of us, sparing not a jot of our five days in Philadelphia. Read on and prepare to snicker.

SEJ Publication Types: 
SEJ News [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [3]
Climate Change [4]
Disasters [5]
Economy & Business [6]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Food [9]
Government [10]
Health [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [15]
Policy [16]
Pollution [17]
Technology [18]
Transportation [19]
Waste [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Wildlife [22]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [23]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Visibility: 
Public [25]
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Senate Votes To Reject Rule To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions On Highways [26]

"The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution that would overturn a federal agency's rule requiring states to measure and set declining targets for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles using the national highway system."

Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [17]
Transportation [19]
Public [25]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Reuters [28], 04/11/2024
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US Agrees With Native American Tribe That Line 5 Pipeline Is Trespassing [29]

"The Biden administration straddled the line on a controversial Canadian oil pipeline in a court filing Wednesday, saying a lower court’s order to drain portions running through tribal land may violate a 1977 treaty but agreeing with a Native American tribe that the operator is trespassing on tribal land."

Disasters [5]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Justice [30]
Environmental Politics [8]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [14]
Pollution [17]
Transportation [19]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [25]
National (U.S.) [23]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [31]
Canada [32]
Source: The Hill [33], 04/11/2024
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"The First All-Electric Tugboat In The US Is About To Launch" [34]

"With their roaring diesel engines, tugboats push, pull and guide much larger vessels into port and out to sea. They are small but mighty — and incredibly dirty, spewing huge amounts of toxic exhaust and planet-warming emissions every year. Now, however, the humble harbor craft is going electric."

Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Transportation [19]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [25]
National (U.S.) [23]
California [35]
Source: Canary Media [36], 04/10/2024
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Humans Converted 250,000 Acres Of Estuaries To Cities And Farms In 35 Years [37]

"Worldwide over the past 35 years, dams and land reclamation activities have converted 250,000 acres of estuary — an area roughly 17 times the size of Manhattan — to urban land or agricultural fields, with most land conversion and estuary loss in rapidly developing countries, a new study finds."

Agriculture [3]
Biodiversity [38]
Fish & Fisheries [39]
Infrastructure [12]
Natural Resources [14]
Planning & Growth [40]
Transportation [19]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [25]
International [41]
Source: AGU [42], 04/10/2024
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"Railroad Agrees To $600 Million Settlement For Fiery Ohio Derailment" [43]

"Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement for a fiery train derailment in February 2023 in eastern Ohio, but local residents worry the money won’t go very far because their potential health needs down the road may be tremendous."

Chemicals [44]
Disasters [5]
Environmental Health [45]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [17]
Transportation [19]
Public [25]
National (U.S.) [23]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [31]
Source: AP [46], 04/10/2024
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"How to Hit the Trail With Nothing but Amtrak and a Bicycle" [47]

"From Idaho to Alabama to Maine, adventure outdoors without taking a single car ride or plane trip".

Consumer [48]
Natural Resources [14]
Transportation [19]
Public [25]
National (U.S.) [23]
Canada [32]
Source: Sierra [49], 04/09/2024
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"Electric Cars Pass the Tipping Point to Mass Adoption in 31 Countries" [50]

"Once 5% of new-car sales go fully electric, everything changes — according to a Bloomberg Green analysis of transitions underway across four continents."

Climate Change [4]
Consumer [48]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Infrastructure [12]
Technology [18]
Transportation [19]
Public [25]
International [41]
Source: Bloomberg [51], 04/08/2024
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"Few Stations and $200 to Fill Up: Life on California’s ‘Hydrogen Highway’" [52]

"The state committed more than $250 million toward building out a network of stations for hydrogen fuel cell cars. It’s not going great."

Climate Change [4]
Consumer [48]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Infrastructure [12]
Technology [18]
Transportation [19]
Public [25]
National (U.S.) [23]
California [35]
Source: Bloomberg [53], 04/08/2024
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"Light at the End of the Tunnel" [54]

"Millions of killer culverts lurk beneath North American roadways, strangling populations of migratory fish. Now with a nationwide project, the United States is trying to fix them."

Fish & Fisheries [39]
Infrastructure [12]
Natural Resources [14]
Transportation [19]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [25]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Hakai [55], 04/04/2024
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