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"Trump Slashes Size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Monuments" [1]

"President Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah on Monday by some two million acres, the largest rollback of federal land protection in the nation’s history."

Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Natural Resources [4]
People & Population [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NY Times [8], 12/05/2017
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"Cold War-Era Military Site Continues To Pollute Fish And Yupik People" [9]

"Three years after the Army Corps declared it sufficiently cleaned up, a former Air Force station continues to contaminate wildlife on remote St. Lawrence Island".

Environmental Health [10]
Military [11]
People & Population [5]
Public [6]
Alaska and Hawaii [12]
Source: EHN [13], 12/04/2017
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"Trump To Cut Bears Ears National Monument By 85 Percent" [14]

"President Trump plans to shrink Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent and reduce Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument nearly by half, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post that show the Utah sites would be cut even more than administration officials previously signaled."

Forests [15]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Natural Resources [4]
People & Population [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [16], 12/04/2017
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‘I’ll Never Leave This Place, And I Hope This Place Will Never Leave Me’ [17]

"Even though repeated promises of a seawall have failed to materialize, teen and Tangier’s other residents refuse to give up hope"

"Like most high school seniors, Cameron Evans is at the edge of change. He’s anxious about whether to major in photography or politics, annoyed about having to go to the dentist, animated when talking about the Yankees, his favorite team.

Climate Change [18]
People & Population [5]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [20]
Source: Bay Journal [21], 11/30/2017
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Trump To Visit Utah Monday To Announce Plans To Shrink National Monuments [22]

"President Trump will travel to Utah on Monday to lay out his plans to cut the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, according to individuals briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it had not been formally announced."

Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Natural Resources [4]
People & Population [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [23], 11/29/2017
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"A Poison In Our Island" [24]

"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 [25]
People & Population [5]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [6]
Australia & Oceania [27]
Source: Australian ABC [28], 11/27/2017
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"Why Lost Ice Means Lost Hope for an Inuit Village" [29]

"The only road to Rigolet, Labrador, is the ice. But climate change is making that ice vanish, and the mental health impact runs deep."

"ON SEA ICE NEAR RIGOLET, Labrador — Leaning over the handlebars with one knee up on the seat, Derrick Pottle commanded his snowmobile between rocks and sheets of gray sea ice before stopping suddenly at the mouth of a bay.

“It’s open,” Mr. Pottle said, turning off his machine. Ten yards away, the ice had cracked and opened a dark hole in the water that made it impossible to drive across the inlet.

Climate Change [18]
Natural Resources [4]
People & Population [5]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [6]
Canada [30]
Source: NY Times [31], 11/27/2017
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"API Disputes African-American Health Study, Cites Genetics" [32]

"The American Petroleum Institute, the nation's largest oil and gas trade organization, is dismissing the findings of a study on the risks facing African Americans who live near oil and gas facilities, saying that health disparities may be caused by other factors instead, including 'genetics.'"

Chemicals [33]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [2]
People & Population [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: InsideClimate News [35], 11/21/2017
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FOIA Suit, Silence on Hog Farms & Sea-Level Rise, Plus Shield Laws [36]

A push for disclosure on hazardous air emissions from industrial hog farms, and reporting on how the coastal real estate industry works to block bad news about sea-level rise. That, plus the Bay Journal FOIAs the EPA over grant defunding, and a move in Congress towards a federal shield law, all in the latest WatchDog.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [37]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [38]
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [39]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [40]
Journalism & Media [41]
Laws & Regulations [3]
People & Population [5]
Planning & Growth [42]
Pollution [26]
Waste [43]
Water & Oceans [19]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [7]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [44]
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Public [6]
  • Read more about FOIA Suit, Silence on Hog Farms & Sea-Level Rise, Plus Shield Laws [36]

"Peak Pig" -- EHN Probes Hog Production in Rural America [45]

"[Environmental Health News] sent reporters to the heart of hog production—North Carolina and Iowa, the two highest producing states—to see firsthand how the booming industry is re-shaping the rural U.S."

Agriculture [46]
Environmental Health [10]
People & Population [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: EHN [47], 11/17/2017
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