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Tending a New Media Ecosystem [1]

When the Society of Environmental Journalists offered a platform for freelancers to have their voices heard, they showed up — and so did editors willing to lend advice and support. In the new Freelance Files column, co-editor Elyse Hauser takes a look at outcomes from a daylong connection space dedicated to freelance environmental journalists and their needs.

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Journalism & Media [3]
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National (U.S.) [4]
International [5]
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Public [6]
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Alabama’s New Data Center Rules Still Leave Customers in the Dark: Critics [7]

"“The numbers that matter most are still secret,” said Monika Gerhart of the Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association."

Climate Change [8]
Economy & Business [9]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [17], 10/26/2026
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PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water May Be Underestimated: New Study [18]

"Researchers found that treating PFAS measurements below laboratory reporting limits as “zero” may underestimate how widespread the chemicals are in U.S. drinking water."

Chemicals [19]
Consumer [20]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: Inside Climate News [21], 10/26/2026
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Nearly All of World’s Shallow Coral Reefs Are Now Critically Endangered [22]

"If climate change continues apace, 96 percent of shallow coral reef ecosystems may collapse within 50 years, including in Australia’s Great Barrier reef."

Biodiversity [23]
Climate Change [8]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [24]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
International [5]
Source: New York Times [25], 10/26/2026
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How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass [26]

"The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether."

Air [27]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [14]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: New York Times [29], 10/26/2026
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Locations of N. Carolina Poultry CAFOs Have Been a Secret — Until Now [30]

"A few days before Christmas in 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency received a complaint through its National Response Center: “There has been a horrible smell in the air for almost a week,” the caller said, according to state records. “It’s so bad it’s making people throw up.”"

Activism [31]
Agriculture [32]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Waste [34]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 10/26/2026
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West Virginia Attorney General Subpoenas Environmental Groups [36]

"West Virginia’s attorney general has sent investigative subpoenas to environmental advocacy organizations — something the groups are describing as a retaliatory attack on their First Amendment rights."

Activism [31]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [37]
Source: The Hill [38], 10/26/2026
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Map Shows US Drinking Water Contaminated With ‘Forever Chemicals’ [39]

"Federal monitoring data has revealed where two extensively studied PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” have been found in drinking water across the U.S."

Chemicals [19]
Consumer [20]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: Newsweek [40], 10/23/2026
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The Hidden History Of How Big Oil Invented The American Dream [41]

"From the family car to the dream kitchen, fossil fuel companies sold a vision of prosperity that depended on their own products. Grist dug up a century of evidence that shows how they did it."

Climate Change [8]
Consumer [20]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [14]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: Grist [42], 10/23/2026
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A New Ice Age Was Beginning. Then Humans Started Burning Fossil Fuels [43]

"Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course."

Climate Change [8]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Science [24]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
International [5]
Canada [44]
Source: WIRED [45], 10/23/2026
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