"Sea Level Rise Is Unlocking Decades-Old Pollution" [1]
"Salt water creeping upland could release legacy fertilizer into the Chesapeake Bay."

"Salt water creeping upland could release legacy fertilizer into the Chesapeake Bay."

The 2018 elections may prove highly consequential for environment and energy policy, possibly slowing or even reversing the Trump-GOP deregulatory agenda. The latest Issue Backgrounder helps reporters frame the choices voters face, including environmental justice and offshore drilling.
"Pennsylvania environmental officials ordered Sunoco on Wednesday to halt construction of a natural gas pipeline across the southern part of the state, citing a series of spills and leaks of drilling fluid and other “egregious and willful violations” of state law that have plagued the $2.5 billion project."
"Virginia regulators unexpectedly tossed the fate of the Atlantic Coast pipeline project up in the air yesterday, as what was widely expected to be a vote to let the natural gas pipeline proceed instead raised new questions about the project's timing and next steps forward."
"BALTIMORE — Keyonta Parnell has had asthma most of his young life, but it wasn’t until his family moved to the 140-year-old house here on Lemmon Street two years ago that he became one of the health-care system’s frequent customers."
"Even though repeated promises of a seawall have failed to materialize, teen and Tangier’s other residents refuse to give up hope"
"Like most high school seniors, Cameron Evans is at the edge of change. He’s anxious about whether to major in photography or politics, annoyed about having to go to the dentist, animated when talking about the Yankees, his favorite team.
"After more than four decades as a coal miner, Stanley Sturgill ambled into an ornate room at West Virginia’s state capitol Tuesday to deliver a stark message to the Trump administration: Climate change is real and continuing to burn the dirty fossil fuel hurts future generations."
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[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
[5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mid-atlantic
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[9] https://www.sej.org/calendar/protecting-polar-ocean-spaces
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/event-types/news-events/press-conferences
[11] https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/2018-elections-could-be-game-changer-environment-energy
[12] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication-types/backgrounders
[13] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business
[15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[16] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics
[17] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government
[18] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population
[19] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/policy
[20] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[21] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/alaska-and-hawaii
[22] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/california
[23] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-lakes
[24] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mountain-west
[25] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast
[26] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northwest
[27] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast
[28] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southwest
[29] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pennsylvania-shuts-down-construction-sunoco-gas-pipeline
[30] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[31] https://www.apnews.com/850e83266b3c4b4193467e30769d3482/Pennsylvania-shuts-down-construction-on-Sunoco-gas-pipeline
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[33] https://www.sej.org/category/event-type/conferences/regional
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[35] https://www.eenews.net/energywire/stories/1060068863
[36] https://www.sej.org/calendar/biochar-2018
[37] https://www.sej.org/category/event-types/professional-meetings
[38] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hospitals-find-asthma-hot-spots-more-profitable-neglect-fix
[39] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health
[40] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/hospitals-find-asthma-hot-spots-more-profitable-to-neglect-than-fix/2017/12/01/0d804ce2-b806-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html
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