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Lack Of Water, Sewer Service Brings Health Risks To Some Alaska Villages [1]

"On a ridge rising over the Bering Strait coast lies the resting place for one community’s sewage."

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Alaska and Hawaii [9]
Source: Arctic Today [10], 12/07/2021
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Honolulu Shuts Down Largest Well Due To Navy Oil Contamination [11]

Honolulu's Board of Water Supply (BWS) shut down the Halawa Shaft, Oahu's largest water source, on Thursday after the Navy said it found "a likely source of the contamination," the Navy said in a virtual town hall meeting."

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Source: CNN [17], 12/06/2021
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Secretive Texas Company Owns Largest Share of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline [18]

"Hilcorp Energy Co. has a spotty pipeline safety record and refuses to make its financial records public. Can it safeguard the pipeline from climate change?"

"Environmental organizations and pipeline experts continue expressing concerns about a secretive Texas petroleum company with a spotty safety record that acquired the largest share of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline last year as thawing permafrost and flooding linked to climate change threatened the massive oil conduit.

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Source: Inside Climate News [23], 11/24/2021
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Biden USFS To Propose Road Ban On Much Of Alaska Tongass National Forest [24]

"For two decades, Republicans and Democrats have fought over whether to ban roads on more than 9 million acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Now, the Biden administration aims to settle the question once and for all."

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Public [8]
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Alaska and Hawaii [9]
Source: Washington Post [27], 11/19/2021
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Hawaii Has A One-Year Deadline To Ditch Coal. Can It Keep Lights On? [28]

"The Aloha State’s race to clean up its electricity sector makes it a real-world test case for rapid decarbonization."

Climate Change [29]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [8]
Alaska and Hawaii [9]
Source: Canary Media [30], 10/26/2021
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Climate Change at Core of Beat Reporters’ Award-Winning Coverage [31]

Beat reporters Hal Bernton and Mark Kaufman both found the dramatic changes wrought by climate change to be at the center of their coverage — as their work was elevated to prize-winning heights. Bernton, covering climate impacts in northwestern Alaska at a large newspaper, and Kaufman, covering CO2 globally for a digital platform, talk about the lessons of their recent beat coverage with SEJournal’s Inside Story.

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Climate Change [29]
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Fish & Fisheries [33]
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Policy [34]
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"Ahead Of Winter Hibernation, Alaska Celebrates Fat Bear Week" [36]

"In Alaska, leaves are falling, daylight is dwindling and salmon-devouring brown bears are racing the clock to pack on the pounds they need to survive their winter hibernation. Unbeknownst to the enormous bruins, some of them are also competing in Katmai National Park and Preserve's Fat Bear Week, Alaska's annual celebration of gluttony and nature's abundance."

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Fish & Fisheries [33]
Natural Resources [26]
Wildlife [38]
Public [8]
Alaska and Hawaii [9]
Source: Reuters [39], 09/29/2021
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Two Communities, Two Hazards and the Two Award-Winners Reporting Them [40]

Two outstanding features — one on air pollution from a local coke plant in Pennsylvania, another on deaths from a shellfish toxin in Alaska, and both focused on public health, neglected communities and environmental justice — are the subject of the new Inside Story Q&A. Society of Environmental Journalists’ award-winners Nancy Averett and Zoya Teirstein share their reporting insights and advice.

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Environmental Justice [3]
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Fish & Fisheries [33]
Food [44]
Health [45]
Journalism & Media [21]
People & Population [5]
Pollution [6]
Science [46]
Water & Oceans [7]
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National (U.S.) [22]
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"EPA To Protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Blocking Major Gold Mine" [48]

"The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it would restore protections for Alaska’s Bristol Bay, blocking the construction of a massive and controversial gold mine near the world’s largest sockeye salmon run."

Biodiversity [37]
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Source: Washington Post [49], 09/10/2021
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House Panel Bans Drilling in ANWR With Reconciliation Measure [50]

"The House Natural Resources Committee late on Thursday passed legislation that will go into a wider budget reconciliation package that includes restoring protections for a pristine Arctic wildlife refuge from oil and gas drilling."

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Source: Reuters [51], 09/10/2021
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