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"More Than 100 Florida Wildfires Scorch State, A Sign Of How Dry We Are" [1]

"Last year Florida was waterlogged. This year Florida is on fire. More than 100 active wildfires are burning across the state right now, according to the Florida Forest Service. Twenty-seven of them are scorching more than 100 acres each."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Source: Tampa Bay Times [7], 04/11/2017
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"Bill Would Roll Back Tennessee's Factory Farm Regulations" [8]

"Most of Tennessee’s factory farms would no longer need state permits that regulate animal waste disposal, under the terms of a bill before the state legislature."

Agriculture [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Source: Nashville Tennessean [12], 04/05/2017
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"Coal Ash Lawsuit To Claim Pollution In Person County" [13]

"An environmental group says Duke Energy is polluting a lake and two river basins with coal ash from its Person County power plant, and gave formal notice Monday that it will sue over the alleged violations."

Energy & Fuel [14]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Source: Raleigh News & Observer [15], 03/14/2017
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EPA Budget Cuts Threaten a Program Near You [16]

As the Trump administration proposes big cuts at environmental agencies like the U.S. EPA, the latest TipSheet explores how to dig up local angles from the budget action. Examples: Tracking changes at EPA regional offices and labs, at Superfund or at state revolving funds for clean water and safe drinking water programs.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat: 
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Fish & Fisheries [20]
Government [21]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [23]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [24]
Pollution [11]
Waste [25]
Water & Oceans [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [26]
California [27]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
Northwest (OR WA) [30]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
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Trump’s New Gulf Oil And Gas Drilling Proposal Looks A Lot Like Obama’s [31]

"The Trump administration on Monday announced an offshore oil and gas drilling proposal in the Gulf of Mexico that appears to mirror a plan offered by his predecessor a few months ago."

Energy & Fuel [14]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Source: Washington Post [32], 03/07/2017
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Court Backs Oil Firms, Not Levee Authority In Wetlands Damage Suit [33]

"A federal appeals court refused Friday (March 3) to revive the east bank levee authority's controversial lawsuit charging oil and gas companies with threatening hurricane levees by digging exploration and production canals through Louisiana's coastal wetlands. It was the latest setback to the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East's four-year effort to make the companies pay for environmental damage inflicted decades ago."

Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [23]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [34], 03/06/2017
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"Holy Sea Cow! Florida Survey Spots Record Number Of Manatees" [35]

"Florida wildlife officials say their annual manatee survey counted 6,620 of the sea cows — the most since the state began the census in 1991."

Water & Oceans [4]
Wildlife [36]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Source: AP [37], 02/21/2017
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"Everglades Restoration Alliance Teeters As Fla. Plans Refuge Takeover" [38]

"LOXAHATCHEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Fla. — Florida water managers are preparing to evict the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this summer from a swath of Everglades that it's managed for 66 years."

Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Source: Greenwire [39], 02/21/2017
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"Special Master Hands Ga. A Victory In Southeast Water War" [40]

"Georgia yesterday notched a big win in the ongoing Southeast water wars when a special master advised the Supreme Court to reject Florida's claims about the Peach State's excessive water use."

Laws & Regulations [10]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Source: Greenwire [41], 02/16/2017
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WatchDog Group Sues for Records as Pruitt Confirmation Vote Nears & More [42]

The latest WatchDog TipSheet details an open-records case against U.S. EPA nominee Scott Pruitt (shown), the scoop on an Agriculture Department animal welfare database that vanished then returned, a reporter busted at Standing Rock, plus items on whistleblowers, coal-ash and more.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [43]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [44]
Agriculture [9]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [21]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [24]
Policy [45]
Pollution [11]
Waste [25]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [26]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [46]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [47]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
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