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"House Democrats To Unveil Green Infrastructure Bill This Week" [1]

"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 [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Transportation [7]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: E&E Daily [11], 06/03/2020
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Big Oil Wanted Changes To Well Safety Rule. Top Trump Official ‘Agreed.’ [12]

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

Disasters [13]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: HuffPost [15], 06/03/2020
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"States Warn That Virus May Doom Climate Projects" [16]

"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 [2]
Disasters [13]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: NYTimes [17], 06/02/2020
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Hurricane Season Collides With Coronavirus, as Communities Plan [18]

"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 [2]
Disasters [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Government [19]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: InsideClimate News [20], 06/02/2020
  • Read more about Hurricane Season Collides With Coronavirus, as Communities Plan [18]

Using Data Sources To Track Climate-Driven Mayhem at Superfund Sites [21]

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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Reporters Toolbox [22]
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Chemicals [23]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [13]
Government [19]
Health [24]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [26]
Waste [27]
Water & Oceans [8]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [10]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [29]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [30]
International [31]
Europe [32]
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Public [9]
  • Read more about Using Data Sources To Track Climate-Driven Mayhem at Superfund Sites [21]

How Explanatory Reporting Can Define a Challenged Landscape [33]

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 [34]
Topics on the Beat: 
Environmental Studies [35]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [36]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [8]
Wildlife [37]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [10]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [38]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
  • Read more about How Explanatory Reporting Can Define a Challenged Landscape [33]

"Drugs Standards Group Nixes Plan To Kick Pharma's Crab Blood Habit" [39]

"Horseshoe crabs’ icy-blue blood will remain the drug industry’s standard for safety tests after a powerful U.S. group ditched a plan to give equal status to a synthetic substitute pushed by Swiss biotech Lonza and animal welfare groups."

Biodiversity [40]
Chemicals [23]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Health [24]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Reuters [42], 06/01/2020
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Maryland AG Sues Closed Paper Mill for Polluting Potomac River [43]

"Though shuttered for a year, a Western Maryland paper mill’s byproducts continue to pollute the Potomac River, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh charged in a federal lawsuit."

Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [14]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [44]
Source: Baltimore Sun [45], 06/01/2020
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Animal Feedlots Likely Threat To Drinking Water In Minnesota: Report [46]

"Millions of tons of manure from Minnesota’s animal feedlots is a risk to consumer health as it threatens to raise nitrate and phosphorus levels in the state’s rivers, lakes and drinking water, a study has found."

Agriculture [47]
Environmental Health [14]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Source: Guardian [48], 05/29/2020
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December 1, 2020

DEADLINE: Writing Opportunity With The Oxygen Project [49]

Proposals for covering deep seabed mining, a burgeoning ocean issue, are invited from experienced journalists and opinion writers for conventional news stories, in-depth features, investigative reports, profiles, case studies. Pitches will be considered on a rolling basis until Dec 1, 2020, or whenever our budget is disbursed.

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Natural Resources [36]
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National (U.S.) [10]
International [31]

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