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When Extreme Weather Amplifies Hazardous Waste Threats [1]

Toxic waste is bad enough when it’s in one spot. But it can be even more dangerous when it is made mobile by climate-induced natural disasters. The latest TipSheet looks at just a few of the problems that can arise — or have already arisen. Plus, story ideas and reporting resources to cover this issue in your locale.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [3]
Chemicals [4]
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Health [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Waste [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
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Public [17]
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Grant Prompts Improved Coverage of Indigenous Perspectives at Bears Ears [18]

Inspired by a discussion at a Society of Environmental Journalists conference, freelancer Rico Moore (pictured, left) applied for a Fund for Environmental Journalism grant to report on Bears Ears National Monument. Then, armed with advice for better covering Indigenous communities and Native American tribes, Moore found a new way to write about the cultural and environmental richness of those lands. His experience, in the new FEJ StoryLog.

SEJ Publication Types: 
FEJ StoryLog [19]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [20]
Diversity [21]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [23]
Journalism & Media [9]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [10]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [14]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [25]
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Public [17]
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Tilling the Storytelling Fields on the Food, Ag and Environment Beat [26]

In his more than a decade at the helm of the Food & Environment Reporting Network, Samuel Fromartz was instrumental in shaping a new way of covering food, agriculture and environmental issues. As he prepares to turn over the top editor’s job to his successor, Fromartz talks about FERN’s innovative business model and the power of narrative.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [27]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [28]
Biodiversity [29]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [30]
Economy & Business [31]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [22]
Food [32]
Government [33]
Health [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Pollution [11]
Waste [12]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility: 
Public [17]
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"On The Hunt For Yellowstone’s Bison" [34]

"Deer and elk were no problem for Kashius Gleason. The 19-year-old member of the Yakama Nation had hunted plenty of them around his reservation in the state of Washington. Yet standing in freezing temperatures at the doorstep of Yellowstone at daybreak one February morning, he was nervous as a herd of bison trekked out of the park."

Biodiversity [29]
Environmental Justice [22]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [10]
Wildlife [35]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [36], 05/15/2023
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Biden Pledged To Stop Funding Fossil Fuels Overseas. ExIm Bank Does Anyway [37]

"In 2021, the Biden administration told federal agencies to stop funding many new fossil fuel projects abroad..... But now, leaders of America's Export-Import Bank have decided to lend nearly $100 million for the expansion of an oil refinery in Indonesia."

Climate Change [5]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Policy [39]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [40]
Source: NPR [41], 05/15/2023
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"Nature Lawyers Up" [42]

"A growing number of countries and courts say the environment should be endowed with legal rights."

Biodiversity [29]
Environmental Justice [22]
Laws & Regulations [43]
Natural Resources [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [40]
Source: NYTimes [44], 05/15/2023
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Controlled Burns Prevent Wildfires, But Regulations Make It Very Hard [45]

"Even though the 2021 Marshall Fire made it clear that the fire threat posed by Colorado’s grasslands endangers large urban areas, federal, state and local rules continue to make it difficult to address the risk."

Disasters [6]
Forests [46]
Laws & Regulations [43]
Natural Resources [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: ProPublica [47], 05/15/2023
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Flush With Federal Money, a Deep South Factory Votes to Unionize [48]

"Workers at a rural Georgia factory that builds electric school buses under generous federal subsidies voted to unionize on Friday, handing organized labor and Democrats a surprise victory in their hopes to turn huge new infusions of money from Washington into a union beachhead in the Deep South."

Climate Change [5]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [43]
Transportation [49]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Source: NYTimes [50], 05/15/2023
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Kerry Challenges Oil Industry To Prove Its Promised Tech Rescues [51]

"Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time is here for the industry to prove it can make the technology happen — at scale, affordably and quickly — to stave off climate disaster."

Climate Change [5]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Politics [23]
Pollution [11]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [52], 05/15/2023
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"Unusually Early Heat Wave In Pacific Northwest Tests Records" [53]

"An early heat wave took hold Saturday in parts of the Pacific Northwest, with temperatures nearing or breaking records in some areas and heat advisories in place through Monday. The historically temperate region has grappled with scorching summer temperatures and unprecedented wildfires fueled by climate change in recent years."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [14]
Northwest (OR WA) [54]
Canada [55]
Source: AP [56], 05/15/2023
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