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Is Your Audience in an Oil Train Blast Zone? [1]

After a February 16, 2015, oil train derailment and explosion in West Virginia, new concerns have arisen over the public's right to know about the dangers oil trains pose to communities. Now trackside communities have some data and maps to help them protect themselves. Image: AP Photo/ Office of the Governor of West Virginia, Steven Wayne Rotsch.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
People & Population [6]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [7]
California [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [10]
Visibility: 
Public [11]
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"EPA: Civil Rights Advocates Despair After Decades of Agency Inaction" [12]

"FLINT, Mich. -- In 1994, activists opposing the construction of a wood-fired power plant here asked U.S. EPA for help, arguing the project would spew toxic pollutants into their poor, largely African-American neighborhood."

Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [6]
Public [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [14]
Source: Greenwire [15], 02/20/2015
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Feds Offer $8 Million To Help Alaska Natives Address Climate Change [16]

"The U.S. Department of the Interior is directing $8 million to helping Native American communities address the effects of climate change."

Climate Change [17]
People & Population [6]
Public [11]
Alaska and Hawaii [18]
Source: Huffington Post [19], 02/19/2015
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"Coastal First Nations Call Out 'Eagle Spirit' Pipeline" [20]

"Energy project seen as Northern Gateway alternative rejected by two vital aboriginal alliances."

Activism [21]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
People & Population [6]
Public [11]
Canada [22]
Source: Vancouver Tyee [23], 02/17/2015
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Native Americans in Montana Protest Slaughter of Yellowstone Bison [24]

"Native American activists gathered in Montana's capital on Tuesday to protest the deaths of hundreds of Yellowstone National Park bison killed this year to ease the worries of Montana ranchers about a cattle disease carried by many park buffalo."

People & Population [6]
Wildlife [25]
Public [11]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [26]
Source: Reuters [27], 02/11/2015
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"Climate Is Big Issue for Hispanics, and Personal" [28]

"Alfredo Padilla grew up in Texas as a migrant farmworker who followed the harvest with his parents to pick sugar beets in Minnesota each summer. He has not forgotten the aches of labor or how much the weather — too little rain, or too much — affected the family livelihood. Now an insurance lawyer in Carrizo Springs, Tex., he said he was concerned about global warming."

Climate Change [17]
People & Population [6]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NY Times [29], 02/10/2015
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February 27, 2015

DEADLINE: IJNR Sagebrush Country Institute [30]

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources invites applications by Feb 27th for this Apr 6-13, 2015 institute to Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho. Fellows will  explore the longstanding Greater Sage Grouse story, its habitat and the area's related natural resource, energy and environment issues.

Workshops and Fellowships [31]
Visibility: 
Public [11]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [32]
Biodiversity [33]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Forests [34]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [6]

"Indigenous Protesters in Peru Shut Down Oil Wells" [36]

"Achuar tribe demands compensation from Argentine energy company Pluspetrol for pollution on their ancestral land."

Energy & Fuel [4]
People & Population [6]
Public [11]
South America [37]
Source: Aljazeera America [38], 02/05/2015
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"The Making of a Climate Refugee" [39]

"How an unsuspecting farmworker from Kiribati became the brand ambassador of climate change — despite barely knowing what it was."

Climate Change [17]
People & Population [6]
Public [11]
Australia & Oceania [40]
Source: Foreign Policy [41], 01/29/2015
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"Locals, Activists Slam EPA Proposal To Clean Georgia Superfund Site" [42]

"Federal agency reports community of slave descendants on nearby island exposed to pollution from site"

Environmental Health [43]
People & Population [6]
Public [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [44]
Source: Aljazeera America [45], 01/15/2015
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