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Database Helps Track PFAS Drinking Water Contamination [1]

Millions of people across the United States are believed to be drinking PFAS-contaminated water. And a growing database could prove an invaluable resource for environmental journalists trying to get a handle on that public health risk. Our latest biweekly Reporter’s Toolbox, recently refocused on data journalism tools and techniques, explains how to tap the expanding PFAS data.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Reporters Toolbox [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [4]
Government [5]
Health [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [9]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [12]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [15]
Visibility: 
Public [16]

"Mining: Supreme Court Upholds Uranium Ban In 'Rubik's Cube' Ruling" [17]

"Virginia's longtime ban on uranium mining will remain in place after the Supreme Court issued a splintered decision upholding the policy."

Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [18]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [19]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [12]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Source: Greenwire [20], 06/18/2019

Fracking Companies Fight W.V. Landowners on Trespassing, Win Some Cases [21]

"A week after the West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously upheld the property rights of landowners battling one natural gas giant, the same court tossed out a challenge filed by another group of landowners against a different natural gas company."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [9]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Source: ProPublica [23], 06/13/2019

Closure of Civilian Conservation Centers Ignites Controversy [24]

A decades-old environmental jobs program that provided work for thousands of disadvantaged young people across more than a dozen states has been hit with one of the largest federal downsizings in a decade. Find out how the closing of some Civilian Conservation Centers may be a story near you, from the latest TipSheet.

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TipSheet [25]
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Economy & Business [26]
Environmental Politics [27]
Forests [28]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [7]
Natural Resources [18]
People & Population [9]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [12]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [13]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [29]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [30]
Northwest (OR WA) [31]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
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Public [16]

Keystone, W. Va. Water Woes Worsened by Lack of Money [33]

"One of the only things standing between the residents of Keystone, in McDowell County, and more reliable water service is access to a backhoe, said Vondalere Scott, the town clerk and current acting mayor."

Environmental Health [34]
People & Population [9]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Source: Charleston Gazette-Mail [35], 06/05/2019

"The Shorebirds of Delaware Bay Are Going Hungry" [36]

"On their migrations north, famished birds stop to feast on eggs laid by horseshoe crabs. But the crabs were overfished, and conservationists say that some bird species may not recover."

Fish & Fisheries [37]
Wildlife [38]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [15]
Source: NY Times [39], 06/04/2019
June 28, 2019

Journalism Under Attack; Protect Yourself from Threats [40]

To help journalists manage the heightened dangers they face in newsrooms, in the field and online, the National Press Foundation and the National Press Club Journalism Institute are co-hosting a safety workshop, 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Free registration required; limited seating.

Other Events [41]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]

"Report: Pennsylvania Must Do More To Help Chesapeake Bay" [42]

"A nonprofit that tracks pollution in the Chesapeake Bay lambasted Pennsylvania on Tuesday, saying that the state is failing to protect the nation’s largest estuary from farm manure and dirty stormwater."

Agriculture [43]
Environmental Politics [27]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Source: AP [44], 05/29/2019

SEJ in Press Freedom Case, Chem Secrecy Bill Fails and More [45]

SEJ joined with several dozen other journalism groups to support the right to film police activity in a public place, and bills to block information of importance to environmental reporters failed in Louisiana, California and Iowa, but a Colorado paper was blocked from covering a wild horse roundup. All that in this month’s WatchDog Tipsheet.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [46]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [47]
Agriculture [43]
Air [48]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [49]
Economy & Business [26]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [10]
Science [50]
Wildlife [38]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [12]
California [51]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [29]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [30]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Visibility: 
Public [16]

"Chesapeake Bay Recovery Took A Hit Amid Heavy Rain In 2018" [52]

"The Chesapeake Bay’s recovery took a step back in 2018, but the estuary retained its “C” grade on an annual report card from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science."

Agriculture [43]
Biodiversity [53]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Studies [54]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Natural Resources [18]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Source: Baltimore Sun [55], 05/22/2019

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