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When Reporting on Toxic Hotspots, Go Deeper With Cancer Registries [1]

As awareness grows about how pollution can cause certain cancers, it’s smart to look beyond cancer risk and also explore available information about actual cancer cases. Reporter’s Toolbox explains how extensive data collected regularly in state-level cancer “registries” can take your coverage on the pollution-public health connection to another level. Plus, avoiding pitfalls in reporting possible clusters.

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Reporters Toolbox [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [3]
Chemicals [4]
Disasters [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Environmental Studies [9]
Government [10]
Health [11]
Journalism & Media [12]
People & Population [13]
Pollution [14]
Science [15]
Waste [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Visibility: 
Public [21]
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"Gambling ‘America’s Amazon’" [22]

"Alabama’s largest utility plans to bury a heap of toxic coal waste in one of North America’s most biodiverse river systems. Experts say it will put one of the nation’s most pristine wetlands at risk."

Disasters [5]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [6]
Natural Resources [24]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: CNN [25], 12/06/2021
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Trouble In The Wind: Offshore Turbine Farms Complicate Fishing, Shrimping [26]

"Shrimpers see obstacles that will make their jobs tougher, more dangerous; regulators vow to listen"

Disasters [5]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Fish & Fisheries [27]
Infrastructure [28]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [24]
Pollution [14]
Technology [30]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: Nola.com [31], 11/30/2021
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Biden Gulf Oil Sale Means More Drilling Within Legacy Chemical Dump Site [32]

"The Biden administration’s oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico last week doesn’t just lock in decades of future drilling and greenhouse gas emissions, it also opens up more extraction in an area where chemical companies dumped tons of hazardous industrial waste."

Chemicals [4]
Disasters [5]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [6]
Fish & Fisheries [27]
Infrastructure [28]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [24]
Pollution [14]
Waste [16]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: HuffPost [33], 11/30/2021
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"EPA’s Regan Vows To Help Hard-Hit Areas, But Residents Have Doubts" [34]

"ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. — As white smoke wafted from a massive oil and gas refinery that sits near his backyard, Michael Coleman reminisced about the sweet days of his childhood, before sugar cane fields that stretched for miles were sold and replaced by chemical companies that wiped out the “nice little community we had here.”

Activism [35]
Chemicals [4]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [14]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: Washington Post [36], 11/29/2021
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"Houston Highway Project Sparks Debate Over Racial Equity" [37]

"A $9 billion highway widening project being proposed in the Houston area could become an important test of the Biden administration’s commitment to addressing what it has said is a history of racial inequity with infrastructure projects in the U.S."

Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Pollution [14]
Transportation [38]
Public [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: AP [39], 11/29/2021
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Regulator Gives TVA Approval To Bury Coal Ash In Southeast Memphis [40]

"The Tennessee Valley Authority received the final regulatory approval it needs to remove tons of coal ash from ponds in Southwest Memphis and transport them along Shelby Drive to a landfill in Southeast Memphis."

Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: AP [41], 11/29/2021
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Biden Administration To Struggle With Environmental Justice in 2022 [42]

The history of environmental racism is a long one in the United States, far longer than the efforts to address the problem. But reporting on environmental justice continues to tick upwards, and an analysis in the latest Backgrounder points to promising progress, explaining why for journalists the year ahead may yield important stories, whether about future footholds or new missteps.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Backgrounders [43]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [35]
Air [3]
Climate Change [44]
Diversity [45]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Government [10]
Health [11]
Infrastructure [28]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [29]
People & Population [13]
Planning & Growth [46]
Policy [47]
Pollution [14]
Waste [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [48]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [49]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [50]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [51]
Visibility: 
Public [21]
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Company Cancels Plans For $2.5 Billion Oil Terminal In Plaquemines Parish [52]

"A Midwest energy company on Friday canceled controversial plans for a $2.5 billion oil export terminal and pipeline in Plaquemines Parish after facing numerous obstacles to development. Instead, Tallgrass Energy Partners said it will consider other uses for the site."

Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Justice [7]
Infrastructure [28]
People & Population [13]
Public [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: Nola.com [53], 11/22/2021
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"EPA Overturns Approval Of Mississippi Yazoo Pumps Project" [54]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it has overturned the approval of a massive flood-control project in the south Mississippi Delta that officials said was erroneously greenlit in the final days of the Trump administration."

Agriculture [55]
Disasters [5]
Environmental Justice [7]
Infrastructure [28]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: AP [56], 11/18/2021
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