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Energy Markets Offer Clues on Environment’s Future [1]

How the U.S. economy uses energy has huge impacts on the environment. So this week's TipSheet helps journalists understand the economy-energy-environment nexus, detailing nine top trends to watch on fossil fuels and alternative energy in 2018. Plus, a list of helpful sources for tracking energy markets.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Planning & Growth [12]
Pollution [13]
Technology [14]
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National (U.S.) [15]
Visibility: 
Public [16]
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"White House May Share Nuclear Power Technology With Saudi Arabia" [17]

"The Trump administration is holding talks on providing nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — a move that critics say could upend decades of U.S. policy and lead to an arms race in the Middle East."

Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Military [18]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Middle East [19]
Source: ProPublica [20], 11/30/2017
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"A Poison In Our Island" [21]

"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 [11]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
Australia & Oceania [24]
Source: Australian ABC [25], 11/27/2017
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Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Fuel [26]

"The Japanese government and companies used radiation-hardened machines to search for the fuel that escaped the plant’s ruined reactors."

Disasters [27]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [16]
Asia [28]
Source: NY Times [29], 11/20/2017
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"A Radioactive Cloud Wafts Over Europe, With Russia as Chief Suspect" [30]

"Scientists across Europe have been puzzling about a phenomenon that seemed laden with mystery and menace in somewhat uneven proportions — a concentration of radioactive pollution caused by a nuclide called ruthenium 106."

Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [16]
Europe [31]
Source: NY Times [32], 11/16/2017
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For Some Native Americans, Uranium Poisoning Feels Like Discrimination [33]

"Helen Nez had 10 children. Now she only has three. Seven of her children died of a disorder called Navajo neuropathy, which is linked to uranium contamination."

Chemicals [34]
Environmental Health [35]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
People & Population [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NPR [36], 11/15/2017
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"U.S. Ag Department Proposes Lifting Mining Ban Near Grand Canyon" [37]

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday proposed lifting a mining ban on land near Grand Canyon National Park as part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to sweep away regulations impeding development."

Forests [38]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [39]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Reuters [40], 11/02/2017
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Perry Subsidy for Coal, Nuclear Will Cost US Taxpayers $10.6Bn A Year [41]

"Non-partisan analysis reveals the cost of energy secretary Rick Perry’s proposal to give handouts to some of the country’s oldest and dirtiest power plants".

Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [42], 10/27/2017
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"EPA Says Higher Radiation Levels Pose ‘No Harmful Health Effect’" [43]

"In the event of a dirty bomb or a nuclear meltdown, emergency responders can safely tolerate radiation levels equivalent to thousands of chest X-rays, the Environmental Protection Agency said in new guidelines that ease off on established safety levels."

Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg [44], 10/19/2017
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"Lawmakers Slam DOE’s Proposal To Help Coal, Nuclear Power" [45]

"Lawmakers used a Thursday hearing with Energy Secretary Rick Perry to criticize his recent proposal to prop up coal and nuclear plants with higher payments for their electricity."

Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [46], 10/13/2017
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