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"Climate Deniers Try to 'Fact Check' Real Reporting" [1]

"A prominent group of deniers with a history of dark money benefactors is now trying to claim media is biased, thanks to new funding."

Climate Change [2]
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Source: Earther [8], 01/11/2023

"U.S. Sets Up Office To Oversee Abandoned Oil Well Cleanup" [9]

"U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Tuesday issued an order to establish an office to ensure efficient use of the Biden administration's $4.7 billion investment in the cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells."

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Source: Reuters [14], 01/11/2023

Reversing Trump, White House Moves To Weigh Climate In Infrastructure [15]

"Federal regulators have been instructed to consider planet-warming pollution before approving large projects like pipelines and airports."

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Source: HuffPost [19], 01/11/2023

Winning Over Editors and Others with Award Winners’ Multimedia Nuggets [20]

If you’re looking to engage key constituencies for your journalism — whether editors, sources, students or people who have been marginalized — a new set of short videos from award-winning journalists (like KESQ's Angela Chen, at left) can serve as a helpful resource. Inside Story has a roadmap of how to make smart use of these video nuggets to, for instance, convince newsroom powerbrokers to give you more time and support for ambitious stories.

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NASA Set To Ditch Satellite-Based Environmental Data Source [38]

Instrumentation on the International Space Station that gathers 3-D images of forest canopies and other environmental data is scheduled to soon be junked. But the move is provoking an outcry from scientists and pushback from some politicians. Reporter’s Toolbox examines what the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation does and how journalists might make use of it, while it lasts.

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Water-Sharing in the West: An Urgent and Complicated Environmental Story [41]

Water has always been a precious commodity in the western states. Now, with rapid population growth and a drying climate, the way this resource is shared and distributed is becoming more contentious across the region. Freelance journalist Jennifer Oldham talks about the tensions between supply and demand and how to drill down into water rights laws and policies.

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"U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose 1.3% In 2022 - Rhodium" [50]

"Greenhouse gas emissions increased slightly from the previous year in 2022 by 1.3%, keeping the U.S. just 15.5% below 2005 levels and off track to meet its global pledge to slash emissions 50-52% by 2030, according to estimates published on Tuesday by research group Rhodium."

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Source: Reuters [51], 01/10/2023

Grijalva Blasts House Rules Package For Making Public Land Transfers Easier [52]

"The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee blasted a provision in the proposed House rules package that would make it easier to transfer public lands, calling it an indication the new GOP majority intends to pursue a broadly pro-industry agenda."

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Source: The Hill [53], 01/10/2023

"Drilling Down on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change" [54]

"The United States has pledged to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, but Russia’s war in Ukraine set off a bonanza for liquefied natural gas, or LNG. Today, we look at how energy companies and the Biden administration are backsliding on promises to move away from oil and gas."

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Source: Reveal [55], 01/09/2023

"US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears" [56]

"The US Consumer Product Safety Commission will move to regulate gas stoves as new research links them to childhood asthma."

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Source: Bloomberg Green [57], 01/09/2023

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