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Freelance Journalism: Not an Enterprise for the Weak [1]

August 8, 2019 — I'm a Washington, D.C.-based, award-winning energy and environment reporter. As a staff writer for InsideClimate News, my groundbreaking dispatches from Kalamazoo, Mich., "The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You Never Heard Of," won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. As well, an e-book version of the narrative won the 2013 Rachel Carson Book Award [2] from the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Topics on the Beat: 
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Health [7]
Journalism & Media [8]
Natural Resources [9]
People & Population [10]
Planning & Growth [11]
Pollution [12]
Visibility: 
Public [13]
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Finding Record Temps for Summer Heat [14]

For environmental journalists covering this summer’s record-high temperatures, finding accurate data on local temperature extremes is key. Our latest Reporter’s Toolbox helps you locate the source of local data via the National Weather Service, then walks you through how to pinpoint your area’s numbers for high temperatures and for heat-related extremes.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Reporters Toolbox [15]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [16]
Government [17]
Health [7]
Journalism & Media [8]
People & Population [10]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [18]
Visibility: 
Public [13]
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"‘Potentially Dangerous Conditions May Exist In This Area’" [19]

"Pollution has plagued this Birmingham, Alabama, neighborhood for decades. Will anything ever change?"

Air [20]
Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [12]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
Source: HuffPost [23], 08/05/2019
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"This US Heartland Has Been Flooded For 5 Months. Does Anyone Care?" [24]

"About half a million acres of land in the rural Yazoo backwater area in Mississippi is underwater, a devastating blow for a poor region where agriculture is the economy’s lifeblood".

Agriculture [25]
Climate Change [16]
Disasters [26]
People & Population [10]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
Source: Guardian [28], 08/05/2019
  • Read more about "This US Heartland Has Been Flooded For 5 Months. Does Anyone Care?" [24]

Alaska Natives Accuse White House Of Hiding Arctic Oil Impact Info [29]

"Alaska Natives and environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, accusing it of concealing information about the effects of oil development in the long-protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [30]
Topics on the Beat: 
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [31]
Journalism & Media [8]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [10]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [18]
Visibility: 
Public [13]
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"Bristol Bay: EPA Kills Proposed Pebble 'Veto'" [32]

"EPA has lifted the Obama-era proposed 'veto' of the Pebble mine, reversing a decision last year not to scrap the pending mining restrictions on the massive copper and gold project upstream from Alaska's Bristol Bay."

Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Politics [6]
Fish & Fisheries [33]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [9]
People & Population [10]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Alaska and Hawaii [34]
Source: Greenwire [35], 07/31/2019
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"Tribe At Center Of Pipeline Protests Launches Solar Farm" [36]

"The American Indian tribe at the center of tumultuous protests against the Dakota Access pipeline unveiled a solar farm Friday that came about partly due to the tribe’s fierce opposition to the oil pipeline’s environmental impact."

Activism [37]
Climate Change [16]
People & Population [10]
Public [13]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [38]
Source: AP [39], 07/30/2019
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"Inslee Proposes Opening Environmental Justice Office" [40]

"Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is proposing to open an office of environmental justice if he is elected president."

Environmental Politics [6]
People & Population [10]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [41], 07/30/2019
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"Toxics: Most School Districts Didn't Test For Lead — GAO" [42]

"Senate Democrats are concerned about lead-based paint in public schools after auditors found that only 12% of districts inspected their campuses for the toxins during the 2016-17 school year."

Chemicals [43]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
People & Population [10]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Greenwire [44], 07/29/2019
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Fearing Oil Spills, Tribe Sues to Get Pipeline Removed from Its Land [45]

"Driven by fears of rapid erosion that threatens to expose a crude oil pipeline to rushing water, a Native American tribe is suing pipeline giant Enbridge to force it to remove an aging pipeline whose easement through the reservation has expired."

Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [9]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [12]
Public [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [46]
Source: InsideClimate News [47], 07/26/2019
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