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Primer Helps To Prep for Reporting on PFAS [1]

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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National (U.S.) [10]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [11]
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June 16, 2025

DEADLINE: The Water Desk Grants [17]

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.

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Agriculture [3]
Biodiversity [19]
Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Health [7]
People & Population [23]
Water & Oceans [9]
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California [24]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [25]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [13]

Companies Leave Some Residents In The Dark After Chemical Emergencies [26]

"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 [4]
Disasters [27]
Environmental Health [22]
Journalism & Media [28]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [13]
Source: Houston Chronicle [30], 06/05/2019

US Officials To Put Off Oil Leases Near Sacred Tribal Land [31]

"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 [32]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [33]
People & Population [23]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [13]
Source: AP [34], 05/30/2019

"If They Build It, Will The Oysters Come?" [35]

"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 [32]
Fish & Fisheries [36]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [13]
Source: Washington Post [37], 05/28/2019

"Tribes, Environmentalists Battle Copper Mine In Arizona" [38]

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.

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Source: AP [39], 05/22/2019

"Pipelines: Texas Looks To Pass ALEC-Backed Protest Bill" [40]

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

Activism [41]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [42]
Journalism & Media [28]
Laws & Regulations [29]
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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [13]
Source: EnergyWire [43], 05/16/2019

"Border Wall To Go Up In National Monument, Wildlife Refuge" [44]

"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 [42]
Natural Resources [33]
Wildlife [45]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [13]
Source: AP [46], 05/15/2019

Is Your Local Landfill Leaking Methane? [47]

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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Waste [50]
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National (U.S.) [10]
California [24]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [11]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [51]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [12]
Northwest (OR WA) [52]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [13]
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Florida: "Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Halt Plastic Straw Bans" [53]

"Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has vetoed a bill that would have prevented Florida’s local governments from banning plastic straws."

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Laws & Regulations [29]
Waste [50]
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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [13]
Source: AP [54], 05/13/2019

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