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Fracking Companies Fight W.V. Landowners on Trespassing, Win Some Cases [1]

"A week after the West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously upheld the property rights of landowners battling one natural gas giant, the same court tossed out a challenge filed by another group of landowners against a different natural gas company."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Laws & Regulations [3]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [6]
Source: ProPublica [7], 06/13/2019
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Sifting Through 'Toxic Secrets' To Nail Polluter [8]

A lengthy investigation yielded one small-market environmental reporting team an award-winning project examining the adequacy of a toxic solvent cleanup in a polluted community. Our latest “Inside Story” talks with a team member behind the project to learn about the challenges, the lessons learned and advice for others tracking similar problems.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [9]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Health [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [3]
People & Population [4]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [17]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
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Closure of Civilian Conservation Centers Ignites Controversy [18]

A decades-old environmental jobs program that provided work for thousands of disadvantaged young people across more than a dozen states has been hit with one of the largest federal downsizings in a decade. Find out how the closing of some Civilian Conservation Centers may be a story near you, from the latest TipSheet.

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TipSheet [19]
Topics on the Beat: 
Economy & Business [20]
Environmental Politics [21]
Forests [22]
Government [23]
Journalism & Media [13]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [25]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [26]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [6]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [27]
Northwest (OR WA) [28]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [29]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
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"Michigan Tribe Seeks To Set Its Own Water Standards" [30]

"The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, heavily reliant on fish, berries and wild rice, wants to join the 60 other US tribes who the feds have granted control over setting water regulations."

Fish & Fisheries [31]
Laws & Regulations [3]
People & Population [4]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [25]
Source: EHN [32], 06/11/2019
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Brazil Guts Agencies, Clears Way For Unchecked Deforestation [33]

"President Jair Bolsonaro appears intent on decriminalizing Amazon deforestation, ending most fines, straitjacketing law enforcement, and gutting environmental agencies with mass firings."

Agriculture [34]
Biodiversity [35]
Climate Change [36]
Environmental Politics [21]
Forests [22]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
South America [37]
Source: Mongabay [38], 06/11/2019
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June 16, 2025

DEADLINE: The Water Desk Grants [39]

The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder's Center for Environmental Journalism is offering grants (up to $10,000) to media outlets and individual journalists covering water issues (and intertwined topics) related to the Colorado River Basin. Apply by Jun 16, 2025.

Awards and Grants [40]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [34]
Biodiversity [35]
Climate Change [36]
Economy & Business [20]
Environmental Health [11]
Health [12]
People & Population [4]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region: 
California [41]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [42]
June 16, 2025

DEADLINE: Global Youth & News Media Prize [43]

This biennial prize honors organizations that innovate and strengthen engagement between news media and the young while reinforcing the role of journalism in society. It celebrates and encourages news media work that serves, supports and both attracts and learns from young audiences. Deadline is Jun 16, 2025.

Awards and Grants [40]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
Topics on the Beat: 
Journalism & Media [13]
People & Population [4]

Keystone, W. Va. Water Woes Worsened by Lack of Money [44]

"One of the only things standing between the residents of Keystone, in McDowell County, and more reliable water service is access to a backhoe, said Vondalere Scott, the town clerk and current acting mayor."

Environmental Health [11]
People & Population [4]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [6]
Source: Charleston Gazette-Mail [45], 06/05/2019
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Judges Grill Both Sides in Youth Climate Case Against the Government [46]

"Three federal judges heard arguments Tuesday about whether young people have a constitutional right to be protected from climate change. In the lively, hourlong hearing, the judges, from the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pushed skeptically on the arguments of both sides."

Activism [47]
Climate Change [36]
Laws & Regulations [3]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NY Times [48], 06/05/2019
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FED Tool Tracks Pollution on Federal Lands [49]

A revamped Reporter’s Toolbox begins today with a new focus on data resources for environmental journalists. The now biweekly column starts with a look at a massive database designed for federal land managers that reporters can use to scan dozens of pollution data sets about air quality and more in parks, forests and other federal lands.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Reporters Toolbox [50]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [51]
Consumer [52]
Environmental Health [11]
Forests [22]
Government [23]
Health [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [3]
People & Population [4]
Pollution [14]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
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