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Judge: Oil Spill Responses Should Consider Harm Caused By Dispersants [1]

"A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump's administration to update its oil spill response plans and potentially limit the use of the chemical dispersants that were heavily used during the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [10], 06/04/2020
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Arctic River Will Take Decades To Recover From Fuel Spill: Russia [11]

"Russia’s state fishing agency said on Tuesday an Arctic river would need decades to recover after 20,000 tonnes of oil products spilled out of a power station in the industrial city of Norilsk last week."

Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Fish & Fisheries [12]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
Antarctica & Arctic [13]
Source: Reuters [14], 06/03/2020
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"Brown Water? Dead Fish? Odd Smell? Blame Mahogany Tide" [15]

"A reddish-brown patina has overtaken the Mid-Chesapeake Bay and several Maryland rivers that feed into the estuary. A stench hangs in the air in some places, and fish are dying by the thousands. Yep, the mahogany tide is back."

Agriculture [16]
Climate Change [17]
Fish & Fisheries [12]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [18]
Source: Bay Journal [19], 06/03/2020
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New Study Shows Global Warming Boosts Extreme Rainstorms Over N. America [20]

"The current warming trajectory could bring 100-year rainstorms as often as every 2.5 years by 2100, driving calls for improved infrastructure and planning."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [3]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: InsideClimate News [21], 06/03/2020
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"House Democrats To Unveil Green Infrastructure Bill This Week" [22]

"House Democrats plan to release a massive green infrastructure package this week, an aide confirmed to E&E News, ending months of anticipation among transportation and infrastructure advocates."

Climate Change [17]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Transportation [25]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: E&E Daily [26], 06/03/2020
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Big Oil Wanted Changes To Well Safety Rule. Top Trump Official ‘Agreed.’ [27]

"Newly released documents highlight the degree to which industry has shaped the rules that police it under the Trump administration."

Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: HuffPost [29], 06/03/2020
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"States Warn That Virus May Doom Climate Projects" [30]

"Connecticut is preparing to build a first-of-its-kind underground flood wall. Virginia has planned an intricate system of berms, pump stations and raised roads to keep the flood-prone city of Norfolk dry. Louisiana has broken ground on a new community for people forced to flee a village on its sinking coast, the country’s first government-resettled climate migrants."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [3]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NYTimes [31], 06/02/2020
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Hurricane Season Collides With Coronavirus, as Communities Plan [32]

"Robin Rokobauer doesn't like to chance it. When there's a hurricane, she almost always evacuates. Rokobauer lives in Cocoa Beach, on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and 153-mile-long Indian River Lagoon. Her mother is 93."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [28]
Government [33]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: InsideClimate News [34], 06/02/2020
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Using Data Sources To Track Climate-Driven Mayhem at Superfund Sites [35]

Hazardous waste and floodwaters don’t typically mix well together. So when a Michigan dam recently burst, and flooded not just the local community, but also threatened a nearby Superfund site, it prompted Reporter’s Toolbox to look at how environmental journalists could track similar threats in their areas, especially as climate change raises the risks of similar disasters.

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Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [17]
Disasters [3]
Government [33]
Health [37]
Journalism & Media [38]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [6]
Waste [39]
Water & Oceans [7]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [40]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [42]
International [43]
Europe [44]
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Public [8]
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How Explanatory Reporting Can Define a Challenged Landscape [45]

To cover the wide range of challenges affecting his Mountain State, a small market beat reporter won plaudits first by becoming a close student of the issues and then boiling them down to the basics for his audience. Inside Story’s Q&A explores the resulting award-winning journalism on topics like water law and public lands, groundwater pollution and protected species.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [46]
Topics on the Beat: 
Environmental Studies [47]
Journalism & Media [38]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [48]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Wildlife [49]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [9]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [50]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
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