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Hazardous Risk Reporting Resource at Risk of Trump Blackout [1]

Hazardous sites around the United States are supposed to have disaster plans, which make for a localizable story environmental journalists can tell to help protect their communities. The problem, reports TipSheet, is that a key federal database of these plans may be shut down by the Trump administration. More on the Risk Management Program, efforts to protect the data and how reporters can use it.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [3]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Health [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [11]
Waste [12]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility: 
Public [14]
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Calif. Falls Short in Enforcing Regulations for Metal Shredding Industry [15]

"After decades of lax oversight, new efforts are underway to protect communities from toxic emissions without putting the industry out of business."

Chemicals [3]
Economy & Business [16]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [11]
Waste [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [13]
California [17]
Source: Public Health Watch [18], 03/21/2025
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"Canadians Protest Imports Of US Toxic Waste Amid Trump Tariff War" [19]

"The proposed expansion of a Quebec landfill that accepts hazardous waste from the United States has ignited a turf war between the Quebec provincial government and local leaders, who say they oppose putting US trash into a local peat bog."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Waste [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [13]
Canada [20]
Source: Guardian [21], 03/20/2025
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Desperately Seeking Data? OECD Has Loads [22]

If the possibility of a politically driven dearth of data for your climate and environment reporting has you on edge, the new Reporter’s Toolbox just may have something to soothe your nerves: A data source from beyond the grasp of the Trump administration and outside the boundaries of the United States. Take a quick tour of environmental data from the OECD.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Reporters Toolbox [23]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [24]
Air [25]
Biodiversity [26]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Studies [29]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Health [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Natural Resources [31]
Pollution [11]
Transportation [32]
Waste [12]
Water & Oceans [33]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
International [34]
Europe [35]
Visibility: 
Public [14]
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New Angle for Reporting on Oil and Gas Industry — Radioactive Waste [36]

Industry experts and government regulators have long known that radionuclides reside in oil and natural gas. Yet radioactive emissions and waste continue to threaten the lives of workers and community members across the country. Investigative journalist Justin Nobel on the opportunities and urgent need for reporters to drill into a story steeped in questions of accountability, health and justice.

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Features [37]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [38]
Air [25]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [27]
Consumer [39]
Economy & Business [16]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [29]
Government [7]
Health [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [31]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [40]
People & Population [41]
Policy [42]
Pollution [11]
Science [43]
Technology [44]
Waste [12]
Water & Oceans [33]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [45]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [46]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [48]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [49]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [51]
International [34]
Canada [20]
South America [52]
Visibility: 
Public [14]
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Plastic Pollution Leaves Seabirds With Brain Damage Similar To Alzheimer’s [53]

"Ingesting plastic is leaving seabird chicks with brain damage “akin to Alzheimer’s disease”, according to a new study – adding to growing evidence of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on marine wildlife."

Biodiversity [26]
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [39]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [29]
Natural Resources [31]
Pollution [11]
Waste [12]
Water & Oceans [33]
Wildlife [54]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [34]
Australia & Oceania [55]
Source: Guardian [56], 03/13/2025
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"E.P.A. Targets Dozens of Environmental Rules as It Reframes Its Purpose" [57]

"Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said the agency’s mission was to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses."

Air [25]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [58]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [29]
Laws & Regulations [10]
People & Population [41]
Pollution [11]
Waste [12]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [59], 03/13/2025
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"Supreme Court Takes Up Nuclear Waste in Texas" [60]

"The case could establish the nation’s first independent repository for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas, despite the objections of state leaders."

Chemicals [3]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [40]
Waste [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [51]
Source: Inside Climate News [61], 03/07/2025
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UN Sets August Date For Extra Session To Finalize Plastics Treaty [62]

"The United Nations Environment Programme on Monday said a new round of negotiations toward a global plastics treaty will take place from August 5 to 14 in Geneva, Switzerland, after countries failed to agree on the parameters of a final agreement last December in Busan, South Korea."

Chemicals [3]
Consumer [39]
Economy & Business [16]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Food [63]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [31]
Pollution [11]
Waste [12]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
International [34]
Source: Reuters [64], 03/04/2025
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"The ‘Horror Story’ of Hazardous Waste in a Small Pennsylvania Town" [65]

"An EPA investigation confirmed residents’ worst fears about operations at an industrial landfill. What happens next is all too uncertain."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [58]
Infrastructure [66]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [11]
Waste [12]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Source: Inside Climate News [67], 02/26/2025
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