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Big Environmental Impacts on Small Communities Is Story That Must Be Told [1]

While environmental journalists often focus on regulatory wrestling matches in Washington, D.C., a seasoned New York Times investigative reporter argues the most important stories are those in the real communities where bureaucratic impacts are felt. Three-time Pulitzer winner Eric Lipton makes the case for public service in journalism that tells the environment story from the outside in.

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Features [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [3]
Air [4]
Chemicals [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Government [9]
Health [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Policy [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [18]
California [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [21]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [24]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [25]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
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Public [27]
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Primer Helps To Prep for Reporting on PFAS [28]

It’s a category of more than 4,000 industrial chemicals that affect our lives nearly every day — and many of which are toxic. So what do journalists need to know to report on the emerging contaminants known as PFAS? Our most recent Issue Backgrounder offers a detailed primer on what PFAS are, where they come from, what their health effects are and how they might be cleaned up.

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Backgrounders [29]
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Agriculture [3]
Chemicals [5]
Consumer [30]
Food [31]
Health [10]
Science [32]
Water & Oceans [16]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [24]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
International [33]
Australia & Oceania [34]
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Public [27]
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June 16, 2025

DEADLINE: The Water Desk Grants [35]

The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder's Center for Environmental Journalism is offering grants (up to $10,000) to media outlets and individual journalists covering water issues (and intertwined topics) related to the Colorado River Basin. Apply by Jun 16, 2025.

Awards and Grants [36]
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Agriculture [3]
Biodiversity [37]
Climate Change [38]
Economy & Business [39]
Environmental Health [7]
Health [10]
People & Population [40]
Water & Oceans [16]
Region: 
California [19]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]

Companies Leave Some Residents In The Dark After Chemical Emergencies [41]

"Mary Gonzalez wanted to know why there wasn’t an alarm when a tank holding toxic chemicals caught fire in Deer Park in March."

Chemicals [5]
Disasters [42]
Environmental Health [7]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
Source: Houston Chronicle [43], 06/05/2019
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US Officials To Put Off Oil Leases Near Sacred Tribal Land [44]

"U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has agreed to put off oil and gas leasing for a year on land that Native Americans consider sacred surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico."

Energy & Fuel [6]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [40]
Public [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
Source: AP [45], 05/30/2019
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"If They Build It, Will The Oysters Come?" [46]

"COPANO BAY, Tex. — The orange buoys placed along the perimeter of an underwater construction site here keep disappearing, leaving behind a rust-stained barge with a massive pile of broken limestone. The barge carried it down the Mississippi River, to be dumped a mile off the Texas coast."

Energy & Fuel [6]
Fish & Fisheries [47]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
Source: Washington Post [48], 05/28/2019
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"Tribes, Environmentalists Battle Copper Mine In Arizona" [49]

Native American tribes and environmental groups have sued to stop a massive copper mine near Tucson. The $1.9 billion Rosemont Mine, at a half-mile deep and a mile wide, would sprawl across federal, state and private land, leaving a waste pile the height of skyscraper.

Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [40]
Public [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
Source: AP [50], 05/22/2019
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"Pipelines: Texas Looks To Pass ALEC-Backed Protest Bill" [51]

"Texas lawmakers appeared poised to pass a bill that will impose hefty prison sentences on protesters who damage pipelines and other "critical infrastructure."

Activism [52]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
Source: EnergyWire [53], 05/16/2019
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"Border Wall To Go Up In National Monument, Wildlife Refuge" [54]

"The U.S. government plans on replacing barriers through 100 miles (161 kilometers) of the southern border in California and Arizona, including through a national monument and a wildlife refuge, according to documents and environmental advocates."

Environmental Politics [8]
Natural Resources [13]
Wildlife [55]
Public [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
Source: AP [56], 05/15/2019
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Is Your Local Landfill Leaking Methane? [57]

It’s a good case for the global-local nexus: The potent greenhouse gas methane may be leaking from your local landfill. And this week’s TipSheet explains the latest news developments in this long-standing controversy, as well as policy disputes over capturing the gas. Plus, get story ideas and questions to ask for your local reporting.

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Activism [52]
Air [4]
Chemicals [5]
Climate Change [38]
Consumer [30]
Environmental Politics [8]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Waste [59]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [17]
California [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [24]
Northwest (OR WA) [60]
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