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Beat Reporter Spotlights Costs of California's Environmental Reckoning [1]

The fossil fuel industry’s outsized climate policy role in the U.S.’s most populous state is the core of award-winning coverage from investigative journalist Aaron Cantú for nonprofit newsroom Capital & Main. In the new Inside Story Q&A, Cantú shares some of what challenged him in his reporting, what surprised him most and a lesson learned.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Policy [12]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
California [14]
Visibility: 
Public [15]
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Polluted Communities Gasp As California Struggles With Diesel Truck Ban [16]

"Standing in his front yard in Wilmington, Jose Ulloa can’t get a sentence out without coughing. Heavy-duty trucks, headed to and from the Port of Los Angeles, pass in front of his home all day, their engines roaring and their exhaust spewing into the air."

Activism [17]
Air [18]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [6]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [20]
Public [15]
California [14]
Source: CalMatters [21], 12/11/2024
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"Chemical Fire at Atlanta-Area Plant Sparks Local Movement Against BioLab" [22]

"Skin rashes, breathing difficulties and “generational rage” led residents to join a nationwide push against companies accused of endangering health and the environment."

Activism [17]
Chemicals [23]
Environmental Justice [6]
Pollution [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
Source: Capital & Main [25], 12/11/2024
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Biden Names National Monument At Notorious Native American Boarding School [26]

"President Biden on Monday formally designated the former site of a notorious boarding school for Native American children as a national monument, issuing a formal apology for the practice of forcibly removing children to such schools."

Environmental Justice [6]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [11]
People & Population [27]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [28]
Source: The Hill [29], 12/10/2024
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"Report: LNG Operators In Louisiana Offered $21.1 Billion In Tax Breaks" [30]

"If all 15 liquefied natural gas plants in Texas and Louisiana open, reductions in overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would slow"

Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Infrastructure [31]
Pollution [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [32]
Source: Floodlight [33], 12/06/2024
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"Biden Pushes Out Over $100 Billion in Clean Energy Grants as Term Winds Down" [34]

"U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has awarded over $100 billion in grants created by its signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden senior advisor for international climate policy John Podesta said."

Climate Change [3]
Environmental Justice [6]
Infrastructure [31]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Transportation [35]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reuters [36], 12/04/2024
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"What Trump’s Second Administration Could Mean For Environmental Justice" [37]

"Biden poured billions into helping communities most threatened by pollution. Donald Trump could stop it."

Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [38], 12/04/2024
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"Handful Of Countries Responsible For Climate Crisis, Top Court Told" [39]

"A handful of countries should be held legally responsible for the ongoing impacts of climate change, representatives of vulnerable states have told judges at the international court of justice (ICJ)."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [40]
Environmental Justice [6]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Water & Oceans [41]
Public [15]
International [42]
Source: Guardian [43], 12/03/2024
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House Passes Bill To Let Treasury Target Nonprofits It Deems "Terrorist" [44]

"The U.S. House passed legislation Thursday that would give the Treasury Department unilateral authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it claims support terrorism, alarming civil liberties groups about how a second Trump presidency could invoke it to punish political opponents."

Activism [17]
Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [45], 11/26/2024
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Texas Reaches $12.6 Million Settlement On 2019 Port Neches Chemical Blast [46]

"Texas reached a $12.6 million settlement with TPC Group over environmental violations related to the November 2019 explosions at the company’s Port Neches chemical plant, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday."

Chemicals [23]
Disasters [40]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [6]
Infrastructure [31]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [32]
Source: Texas Tribune [47], 11/26/2024
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