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"Toxic Ash Is Raining Down in Illinois. It’s Time for the EPA to Step Up" [1]

"On January 11, neon-green corrosive ash rained down onto homes, businesses, and schools in La Salle, Illinois, following a fire at the Carus Chemical Company."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Pollution [6]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Source: Sierra [9], 02/13/2023
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"U.S. EPA Announces $1 Billion For New Hazardous Waste Cleanups" [10]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday announced 22 new sites that will benefit from $1 billion in funding from a program designed to remediate hazardous waste sites, such as landfills, mines and manufacturing facilities."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [6]
Waste [12]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reuters [14], 02/13/2023
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"NPS Completes Largest Move Of Yellowstone Bison To Tribal Land" [15]

"The National Park Service earlier this year completed its largest transfer of bison from Yellowstone National Park to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Mont."

Biodiversity [16]
Environmental Justice [5]
Natural Resources [17]
Wildlife [18]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [19], 02/13/2023
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Lawsuit Seeks Medical Testing After Toxic Train Derailment [20]

"Residents who filed a federal lawsuit in the fiery derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals along the Ohio-Pennsylvania line are seeking to force Norfolk Southern to set up health monitoring for residents in both states."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Source: AP [23], 02/13/2023
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SEJ Panel Gauges Issues in the Works in the U.S. West [24]

As part of our 2023 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment special report, we’ve got highlights from last week’s reporter panel on the year ahead, led by #SEJ2023 conference co-chair Tom Michael (pictured, left). The focus was largely on the U.S. West, where challenges abound over issues like equitable siting of renewable energy infrastructure, regulating natural gas, managing wildfires and addressing the health consequences of climate-driven heat waves. Read our account [24], plus check out the full 2023 Guide [25].

SEJ Publication Types: 
SEJ News [26]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [27]
Air [28]
Biodiversity [16]
Climate Change [29]
Disasters [3]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [32]
Fish & Fisheries [33]
Food [34]
Forests [35]
Government [36]
Health [37]
Infrastructure [38]
Journalism & Media [39]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [40]
Planning & Growth [41]
Policy [42]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [21]
Wildlife [18]
Region: 
California [43]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [44]
Northwest (OR WA) [45]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [46]
Visibility: 
Public [7]
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Attorneys General Call For Federal Protections Against Deadly Workplace Heat [47]

"Seven attorneys general are calling on the federal government to create emergency standards to protect workers from the summer’s deadly heat by the beginning of May."

Agriculture [27]
Climate Change [29]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [48], 02/10/2023
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March 1, 2025

DEADLINE: The Uproot Project Fellowship [49]

To help underrepresented journalists shed light on undercovered topics, this fellowship will offer funding up to $2,000 to seven journalists to pursue reporting projects (highlighting how the climate crisis and key environmental issues of our time are linked with other forms of inequity) over the course of a year. Deadline: Mar 1, 2025.

Awards and Grants [50]
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Public [7]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [29]
Environmental Justice [5]
Journalism & Media [39]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
International [51]

"Brazil Pushes Illegal Miners Out Of Yanomami Territory" [52]

"Armed government officials with Brazil’s justice, Indigenous and environment ministries pressed illegal gold miners out of Yanomami Indigenous territory Wednesday, citing widespread river contamination, famine and disease they have brought to one of the most isolated groups in the world."

Biodiversity [16]
Climate Change [29]
Environmental Justice [5]
Forests [35]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [40]
Wildlife [18]
Public [7]
South America [53]
Source: AP [54], 02/09/2023
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Million-Strong Army Of Environmental Super Voters Recruits In 2 Red States [55]

"The Environmental Voter Project is expanding to Louisiana and Nebraska ahead of key state elections."

Activism [56]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [32]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: HuffPost [57], 02/09/2023
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14 Million Americans Live Near Plants Emitting Cancer-Causing Gas: Report [58]

"Emissions of a colorless, carcinogenic gas produced by facilities that sterilize medical equipment disproportionately affect low-income and minority neighborhoods but pose a risk to more than 14 million Americans, according to a report released Tuesday by the Union of Concerned Scientists."

Air [28]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [59], 02/09/2023
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