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March 11, 2021

Tom Pelton: Blue Collar Environmentalism and the Red/Blue Divide [1]

Journalist and author Tom Pelton will speak via Zoom, 6:00 p.m. ET, about how focusing on nuts and bolts issues like litter, sewage, and septic systems can help bridge the divide between 'red' and 'blue' America over environmental issues. Q&A to follow.

Other Events [2]
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Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Environmental Health [4]
Journalism & Media [5]
People & Population [6]

"Public Lands: Biden Debuts Bold Conservation Goal, Job Corps" [7]

"President Biden today is signing off on an aggressive conservation goal aimed at permanently protecting at least 30% of the nation's undeveloped land and waters by 2030, while calling for the creation of a jobs program focused in part on restoring public lands."

Climate Change [8]
Economy & Business [9]
Forests [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Natural Resources [12]
People & Population [6]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [14], 01/28/2021

Coal Communities Want Biden to Fund an Economic Transition to Clean Power [15]

"Coal-state economic development groups, labor leaders and environmentalists are asking President Joe Biden’s administration to fund a “just transition” from coal to renewable energy, given his focus on climate change, environmental justice and racial and economic equity."

Climate Change [8]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [6]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [19], 01/27/2021
February 4, 2021

Localizing the ‘Land Grab Universities’ Story [20]

Join FIJ and NAJA for an online forum, 11:30 a.m. ET. Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee will discuss their report on land taken from Native Americans and given to colleges and universities, which produced a database of nearly 11 million acres of land and the agreements associated with it. The forum will help you learn how to access and navigate the data to localize this story.

Other Events [2]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Diversity [21]
Environmental Justice [17]
Journalism & Media [5]
Natural Resources [12]
People & Population [6]

“Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene” [22]

A case study in how journalists can center environmental news around social justice is at the heart of a new volume of scholarly essays reviewed in the latest BookShelf. While its tale of rural residents poisoned by contaminants is decades old, its lesson of what happens when power players bank on media acquiescence holds for stories of today.

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [23]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [24]
Environmental Politics [18]
Health [25]
Journalism & Media [5]
Military [26]
People & Population [6]
Pollution [27]
Region: 
International [28]
Europe [29]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

"Montana’s National Bison Range Transferred To Tribes" [30]

"Red Sleep Mountain began its official return to the Flathead Indian Reservation on Friday as Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed papers transferring the National Bison Range to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes."

Biodiversity [31]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Natural Resources [12]
People & Population [6]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [32], 01/19/2021

"Hounded by Wildfires, Californians Rethink Their Willingness to Rebuild" [33]

"The day Paradise burned, Aaron Singer was a skeptic." "In the aftermath, some people are deciding to just begin new lives elsewhere. The pandemic and longstanding housing problems haven’t made the choices any easier."

Climate Change [8]
Disasters [34]
People & Population [6]
Planning & Growth [35]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [36], 01/18/2021

"Groups Ask Court To Restore Protections For US Gray Wolves" [37]

"Wildlife advocates on Thursday asked a federal court to overturn a U.S. government decision that stripped Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across most of the nation."

People & Population [6]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [38], 01/15/2021

Sick Schools in the City of Brotherly Love [39]

A Philadelphia Inquirer investigation into environmental harm suffered by the city’s children, minorities and poor dived into the “decaying infrastructure” of the city schools. The result? Findings of dangerous levels of lead, mold and asbestos, followed by an influx of funding to fix the problems and awards from journalism colleagues. For Inside Story, a Q&A with a reporter for the "Toxic City: Sick Schools" exposé.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [40]
Topics on the Beat: 
Health [25]
Journalism & Media [5]
People & Population [6]
Pollution [27]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [41]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

Public Health Infrastructure Emerges As Critical Environmental Story [42]

A pandemic and a weakened public health framework underscore how essential is the public health reporting function of environmental journalism. The latest TipSheet entry in our ongoing special report, “2021 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment [43],” explores what’s ahead and asks are health agencies too hollowed out to serve? Plus, story ideas and extensive reporting resources.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [44]
Topics on the Beat: 
Disasters [34]
Economy & Business [9]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [18]
Government [45]
Health [25]
Infrastructure [46]
Journalism & Media [5]
People & Population [6]
Planning & Growth [35]
Policy [47]
Science [48]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
International [28]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

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