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"Curtain Lowers On Nuke Plant A Stone’s Throw From Manhattan" [1]

"With the push of a red button, one of the two operating reactors at an aging nuclear plant serving millions of people in the New York City area will shut down Thursday night as federal regulators consider the owner’s proposal to sell it to a company that plans to demolish it."

Energy & Fuel [2]
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Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [5]
Source: AP [6], 05/01/2020
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Go-To Books for Understanding and Surviving a Pandemic [7]

If you’re looking for perspective in your reporting connected with the coronavirus story, it might help to turn to the extensive library of non-fiction books offering insight into disease and epidemics. Our own Bob Wyss offers a helping hand, with a select list of the most useful texts. Plus, links to resource lists for many more, in the latest BookShelf.

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Science [14]
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National (U.S.) [15]
California [16]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [17]
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International [18]
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Tribe That Drew Trump’s Fire Over Casino Loses Its Reservation Status [21]

"The U.S. Interior Department is rescinding the reservation status of a Native American tribe whose plan to build a casino on its Massachusetts land was attacked by President Donald Trump last year."

Economy & Business [22]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
People & Population [13]
Public [4]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [5]
Source: HuffPost [25], 03/30/2020
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SEJournal Relaunches WatchDog with a ‘Voice,’ Plus Coronavirus and More [26]

SEJournal welcomes back from hiatus our WatchDog feature, now recast as an opinion column from Joseph A. Davis, Society of Environmental Journalists’ veteran freedom of information advocate and longtime SEJournal contributor. In part one of a two-parter, find out why we’re relaunching the new column, plus get Davis’ take on government openness (or lack thereof) around coronavirus, as well as more on SEJ’s deep commitment to open information and a rundown of its recent FOI activities. And watch for part two next week.

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Tiny Island Off Maine Coast May Hold Answer To Future Of Electricity [67]

"Living on an island forces one to be an innovator in ways large and small. For the 50 or so year-round residents of Isle au Haut, an island off the coast of Maine, innovation can look like using PVC pipe as a curtain rod because there are no real curtain rods at hand — or it can look like the future of the nation’s electrical grid."

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Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [5]
Source: Ensia [68], 03/11/2020
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"The Original Long Islanders Fight to Save Their Land From a Rising Sea" [69]

"Shinnecock Indians are using nature-based solutions to calm the waves and restore the beaches that protect their lands."

Climate Change [33]
Natural Resources [42]
People & Population [13]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [4]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [5]
Source: NY Times [70], 03/06/2020
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"After Trump Mocks a Sea Wall in New York, Plan Is Abruptly Shelved" [71]

"The Trump administration has unexpectedly halted a project to protect the New York City region from flooding during dangerous storms like Hurricane Sandy — a decision that came six weeks after President Trump took to Twitter to ridicule the study’s most expensive proposal, a giant sea wall that could have cost billions of dollars."

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Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [5]
Source: NY Times [72], 02/26/2020
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March 26, 2020

New Imaginings: Storytelling, Science and Activism Featuring Novelist Richard Powers [73]

Award-winning environmental journalist and SEJ board president Meera Subramanian will host this free event, 4:30-7:00 p.m. at Princeton University in New Jersey, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Powers, author of "The Overstory"; Robin Wall Kimmerer, SUNY professor of environmental biology and author of "Braiding Sweetgrass"; and forest activist Timothy Ingalsbee, executive director of Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology. Will be available to watch online post-event.

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"Boston Harbor Brings Ashore A New Enemy: Rising Seas" [75]

"Facing climate change, Boston must gird itself for an era of rising water — or be inundated".

Climate Change [33]
Disasters [9]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [4]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [5]
Source: Washington Post [76], 02/20/2020
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Data Project Details Nation's Disintegrating Dams [77]

Hundreds of U.S. dams are at risk, and the Associated Press undertook a massive two-year-long investigative reporting project to gather and sort data that would identify those presenting the greatest hazards. In this guest Reporter’s Toolbox, AP data journalist Michelle Minkoff details the news service’s painstaking process, its striking findings and the impact of its reporting. Plus, key lessons learned for other data news projects.

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