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Reclaiming Coal Country — Quest for a New Economy in Appalachia  [1]

Longtime energy and environment journalist Elizabeth McGowan traveled to southeast Kentucky to shine a light on efforts to diversify Appalachia’s longtime coal-based economy. In FEJ StoryLog, McGowan shares how her on-the-ground reporting approach, funded in part by the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Fund for Environmental Journalism, yielded not only a powerful story, but insights into overcoming its challenges.

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FEJ StoryLog [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Health [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Natural Resources [10]
People & Population [11]
Policy [12]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [14]
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Public [15]
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"Biden To Visit NY, NJ To View Hurricane Ida's Destruction" [16]

"President Joe Biden will visit New York and New Jersey on Tuesday to view the destruction wrought by last week's Hurricane Ida, which has left at least 57 dead and four missing in the eastern United States."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [19]
People & Population [11]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reuters [21], 09/07/2021
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"Living In A Sea Of Trash: Roma Fight Environmental Racism In Romania" [22]

"Roma communities driven from Romania's booming city of Cluj-Napoca say the authorities treat them like human garbage. Pollution from a nearby landfill is damaging their health."

Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [5]
Pollution [24]
Waste [25]
Public [15]
Europe [26]
Source: DW [27], 09/06/2021
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"Joe Manchin’s Dirty Empire" [28]

"The West Virginia Senator Reaps Big Financial Rewards From a Network of Coal Companies With Grim Records of Pollution, Safety Violations, and Death"

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [24]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Intercept [30], 09/06/2021
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"Louisiana Shell Refinery Left Spewing Chemicals After Hurricane Ida" [31]

"Behind a playground littered with downed tree branches, Shell’s refinery in Norco, Louisiana spewed black smoke from its stacks. The smell of rotten eggs, the signature scent of sulphur emissions, lingered in the air. In an effort to burn off toxic chemicals before and after Hurricane Ida, many industrial facilities sent the gases through smoke stacks topped with flares."

Chemicals [32]
Climate Change [17]
Disasters [18]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Infrastructure [19]
Pollution [24]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [33], 09/06/2021
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"Climate Change Will Hit Racial Minorities Harder, Analysis Finds" [34]

"Racial minorities in the United States will bear a disproportionate burden of the negative health and environmental impacts from a warming planet, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday, including more deaths from extreme heat and property loss from flooding in the wake of sea-level rise."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Justice [5]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [35], 09/03/2021
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EPA Falsifying Risk Assessments For Dangerous Chemicals: Whistleblowers [36]

"Whistleblowers say the US Environmental Protection Agency has been falsifying dangerous new chemicals’ risk assessments in an effort to make the compounds appear safe and quickly approve them for commercial use."

Chemicals [32]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Science [37]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [38], 08/31/2021
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"Biden Opens New Federal Office for Climate Change, Health and Equity" [39]

"Amid deadly heat waves and new evidence showing that wildfire smoke may contribute to premature births, the Biden administration is creating a new federal office to address the health consequences of climate change and their disproportionate effects on poor communities."

Climate Change [17]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Health [8]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [40], 08/31/2021
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Minn. Cops Shared Intelligence on Protest Organizers With Pipeline Company [41]

"Documents reveal Enbridge’s close relationship with police, including offering training on responding to protests."

Activism [42]
Environmental Justice [5]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Intercept [43], 08/30/2021
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"Line 3 Protesters Arrested At Minnesota Capitol" [44]

"Minnesota troopers on Friday arrested four people protesting Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 replacement pipeline project at the state Capitol."

Activism [42]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [45], 08/30/2021
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