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St. Croix Tap Water Remains Unsafe To Drink As US Virgin Islands Seek Fix [1]

"With no date in sight for when it will be safe to drink tap water again on the island of St. Croix, officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands announced Wednesday night that they would distribute water filters and provide free lead and copper testing as they work on long-term solutions."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Infrastructure [5]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Central America & the Caribbean [10]
Source: AP [11], 01/19/2024
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‘Control The Narrative’: Alabama Utility Wields Influence By Financing News [12]

"A Floodlight investigation found Alabama Power runs a news service and its foundation bought a Black newspaper. Neither reports on high electric bills or utility-related pollution".

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [13]
Economy & Business [14]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [5]
Journalism & Media [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Source: Guardian [19], 01/18/2024
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Clearing the Smoke — Collaboration Exposes Impacts of Wildfire Pollution-Reporting Rules [20]

Climate change is fueling the frequency and severity of wildfires, but a little-known Clean Air Act rule lets environmental agencies downplay the impacts of wildfire smoke. A collaborative investigation into this loophole connected dots that even the experts didn’t know about. Journalists Dillon Bergin and Molly Peterson explain their reporting process and offer advice for following your own local leads.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [21]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [22]
Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [3]
Government [25]
Health [26]
Journalism & Media [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [6]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [18]
Alaska and Hawaii [27]
California [28]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [29]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [30]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [31]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [32]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [33]
Northwest (OR WA) [34]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
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Public [8]
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Utilities Paid Southern Civil Rights Leaders Who Became Industry Advocates [36]

"A joint investigation by Floodlight and Capital B shows millions of dollars flowed from utilities to Black leaders and their groups since at least 2009."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [15]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Source: Floodlight/Capital B [38], 01/10/2024
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People Don’t Have To Pay Anything For Electricity In This Florida Community [39]

"In Hunters Point, Fla., the world’s first LEED Zero Energy certified residential development, every house produces more electricity than it uses".

Climate Change [23]
Consumer [13]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Infrastructure [5]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Source: Washington Post [40], 01/08/2024
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January 22, 2024

DEADLINE: Advancing Democracy Fellowship [41]

Hearken, Trusting News and Solutions Journalism Network are inviting 20 U.S.-based newsroom teams to apply for this fellowship which is designed to help newsrooms think big, plan long term and reinvent coverage of politics, governance and elections with and for their communities. Deadline is Jan 22, 2024.

Workshops and Fellowships [42]
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Environmental Politics [15]
Government [25]
Journalism & Media [16]
Region: 
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [29]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [30]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [31]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]

"Seagrass Resurgence Offers Ray Of Hope For Florida’s Hard-Hit Manatees" [43]

"The recovery of seagrass, the manatees’ favorite food, in Mosquito Lagoon means that an emergency hand-feeding program that has kept many of the starving aquatic animals alive over the last two winters can be discontinued, at least temporarily."

Biodiversity [44]
Climate Change [23]
Natural Resources [45]
Water & Oceans [7]
Wildlife [46]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Source: Guardian [47], 01/05/2024
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"Biden Administration Grants Louisiana Power To Approve Carbon Capture Wells" [48]

"The Biden administration is handing Louisiana regulators new power to attract and approve carbon capture projects at a time when the state’s influential energy sector wants to make the Gulf Coast a hub for the rapidly expanding industry.'

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [5]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Source: AP [49], 01/02/2024
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Recycled Sewage Water — Overcoming the ‘Yuck Factor’ [50]

Toilet-to-tap water jokes aside, the technology and economics of turning sewage into potable drinking water is increasingly seen as a remedy for water-stressed communities. The new BookShelf review of “Purified: How Recycled Sewage is Transforming Our Water,” explains how water shortages, climate change, unsustainable growth and other factors have led some communities, most recently Los Angeles, to consider going “all in” on purified wastewater.

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [51]
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Infrastructure [5]
Policy [52]
Science [53]
Technology [54]
Waste [55]
Water & Oceans [7]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [18]
California [28]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [29]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
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Public [8]
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"EPA to Louisiana: Strengthen Baton Rouge Air Emission Rules, Or We Will" [56]

"Louisiana must strengthen rules over the release of ozone-creating nitrogen oxide air emissions by industries in the Baton Rouge area during startups, shutdowns and malfunctions, or the federal Environmental Protection Agency will write and enforce its own rules, the agency announced this week."

Air [22]
Chemicals [2]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [57], 12/11/2023
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