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Hazardous Data Gap In B.C. Means It Costs $125,910 For Right To Know [1]

"Three hundred thousand pages of records, stuffed into 50 cardboard boxes each year with no filing method. It’s a system so broken and antiquated you’d be forgiven if you assumed this was a thing of the distant past. But you’d be wrong."

Environmental Health [2]
Government [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Waste [5]
Public [6]
Canada [7]
Source: The Narwhal [8], 07/28/2020
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Disaster Aid Sometimes Helps Fund the Next Disaster [9]

As hurricane season gets into full swing, a perpetual paradox reemerges — does disaster aid  help or harm? Government financial assistance in a disaster’s wake may seem a boon, but could it just encourage communities to repeat the mistakes of the past? The latest TipSheet explores the question and provides context, reporting resources and story ideas.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [16]
Policy [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [19]
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Public [6]
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July 30, 2020

Climate Change and the 2020 Elections [20]

Attention Journalists! Join Covering Climate Now at Noon ET for a “Talking Shop” webinar about covering climate change and the 2020 US elections. The session is by and for journalists; CCNow membership is not required.

Other Events [21]
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Public [6]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [3]
Journalism & Media [4]

"Interior: Mont. Governor Sues To Block Pendley's 'Unlawful' Tenure" [22]

"Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) has added his name to the growing list of those challenging the legality of William Perry Pendley's authority to lead the Bureau of Land Management."

Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [24]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [25], 07/22/2020
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"New Emails Show How Energy Industry Moved Fast to Undo Curbs" [26]

"The messages, made public in a lawsuit, suggest the E.P.A. rescinded a requirement on methane at the behest of an executive just weeks after President Trump took office."

"WASHINGTON — Not long after President Trump’s inauguration, the head of a fossil fuels industry group requested a call with the president’s transition team. The subject: Barack Obama’s requirement that oil and gas companies begin collecting data on their releases of methane.

That outreach, by Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, appeared to quickly yield the desired results.

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [29], 07/22/2020
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Ohio House Speaker Charged With $61 Million in Bribes for Energy Bailout [30]

"Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder (R) helped pass a controversial nuclear bailout bill in exchange for almost $61 million in bribes, federal prosecutors said Tuesday as they announced racketeering charges against the official."

Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [31]
Public [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [32]
Source: The Hill [33], 07/22/2020
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Inside Trump’s Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus [34]

"The roots of the nation’s current inability to control the pandemic can be traced to mid-April, when the White House embraced overly rosy projections to proclaim victory and move on."

Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [3]
Health [35]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [36], 07/20/2020
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"Disappearance Of Covid-19 Data From CDC Website Spurs Outcry" [37]

"On the eve of a new coronavirus reporting system this week, data disappeared from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website as hospitals began filing information to a private contractor or their states instead. A day later, an outcry — including from other federal health officials — prompted the Trump administration to reinstate that dashboard and another daily CDC report on the pandemic."

Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [3]
Health [35]
Journalism & Media [4]
People & Population [15]
Science [38]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [39], 07/17/2020
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COVID-19 Power Shift: Experts Have 'Deep Worries' About Hospital Data [40]

"The Trump administration has taken control of COVID-19 data in the United States, leaving public health experts gravely concerned about whether anyone outside the administration will be able to access the vital information moving forward."

Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [3]
Health [35]
Journalism & Media [4]
Science [38]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NBC News [41], 07/16/2020
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Trump To Announce Rollback of Bedrock Environmental Protection Law [42]

"President Trump plans this week to overhaul a federal law that poor and minority communities around the country have used for generations to delay or stop projects that threaten to pollute their neighborhoods — a law he says needlessly blocks good jobs, industry and public works."

Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [43]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [44], 07/15/2020
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