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Environmental Photog Braasch Dies Snorkeling At Great Barrier Reef [1]

"Award-winning American environmental photographer Gary Braasch died on Monday while snorkeling at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef."

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Source: Reuters [5], 03/07/2016

Data Journalism Tools and Tips from MIT [6]

The availability of government data has soared over the last decade — offering a huge opportunity for watchdog journalists to find stories that advance the public interest. The environmental beat is the Saudi Arabia of data (yes, that means vast, rich, accessible, and untapped reserves).

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Trump Hopes To Use Libel Laws To Get at Journalists [9]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is promising to toughen libel laws to get back at news media who "write purposely negative and horrible and false articles." Especially those that criticize him. Photo: By Marc Nozell [10] (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0 [11]].

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House OKs Lands Bill with Photo Fees, Permits — Now It's Up to Senate [13]

The Senate Energy Committee last November approved a different version of the bill which seems to include an exemption from fees and permits for "news gathering." But whether it will pass on the floor or get reconciled with the House bill in an election year is unknown.

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Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [2]
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Natural Resources [15]
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March 3, 2016

Around the Environmental World with SEJ [16]

Journalists, want to get the scoop on The Pew Charitable Trusts’ ocean initiatives? Want to question experts from Climate Nexus and the Walton Family Foundation on what they’re working on for the next few years? Join the Society of Environmental Journalists and The Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, DC for an evening of hors d’oeuvres and environmental chatter.

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March 19, 2026 to March 28, 2026

DC Environmental Film Festival [19]

The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) annually showcases environmentally themed films. DCEFF is happy to have locally-based reporters attend screenings, but remote journalists can reach out with interview requests for attending guests and filmmakers. Submit a film by Dec 1; cash prizes.

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USDA Rejects Scientist's Claim It Tried To Hide His Pesticide Research [21]

"Federal officials have rejected a complaint by an entomologist who charged that the government has tried to suppress negative research findings about a widely used pesticide, in a complex case involving monarch butterflies, scientific freedom and the safety of the nation’s food supply."

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Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [24]
Journalism & Media [2]
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Wildlife [26]
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Source: Guardian [27], 03/01/2016

Oregon Didn't Tell Portland Schools About Alarming Lead Soil Readings [28]

"Two state agencies leading Oregon's emergency response to toxic air pollution concerns in Portland have known for a month that a soil test at Cleveland High School found high levels of arsenic and lead contamination. Yet neither the Oregon Health Authority nor the Department of Environmental Quality have shared the soil result with Portland Public Schools, which instead learned about it Friday from The Oregonian/OregonLive."

Environmental Health [24]
Journalism & Media [2]
Pollution [29]
Public [3]
Northwest (OR WA) [30]
Source: Portland Oregonian [31], 02/29/2016
April 6, 2016

Kavli Conversations on Science Communication at NYU [32]

The Spring 2016 series of live webcasts, hosted by NYU's Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program and moderated by the Wall Street Journal's Robert Lee Hotz, began with climate change on Feb 24. Upcoming events include physics (Mar 9), genetic modification (Apr 6), the neuroscience of violence (Apr 20), human evolution (May 4), followed by additional events in the fall.

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"Snyder: Office Will Release Staff Emails On Flint Water" [36]

"Gov. Rick Snyder said Monday his office will release thousands of pages of emails his staff sent or received related to Flint’s water supply switch and subsequent contamination dating back to 2011."

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Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [39]
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Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [40]
Source: Detroit News [41], 02/23/2016

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