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Read more about How a Hurricane Whipped Up Student Energy/Poverty Project [1]

Great Lakes Offer Great Stories to Reporters in the Know [15]

The Great Lakes are not only the largest fresh water system in the world, supplying drinking water to tens of millions. They also face a range of environmental woes that make them ready fodder for reporters. This week’s TipSheet runs down some ongoing developments, plus key resources to cover them.

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TipSheet [16]

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Agriculture [17]

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Chemicals [19]

Consumer [4]

Economy & Business [20]

Energy & Fuel [6]

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Health [23]

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Selective Media Tour on EPA Scandal, ‘Weaponizing’ Transparency and More [32]

The EPA turns to friendly media to share its news, while limiting access to mainstream reporters. And the agency moves to “weaponize” transparency. Those stories, plus, a new way to map political influence on environmental policy, and key reports made public, in the latest WatchDog TipSheet.

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WatchDog TipSheet [33]

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Activism [3]

Air [34]

Consumer [4]

Economy & Business [20]

Energy & Fuel [6]

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SEJ Takes EPA to Task [38]

The Society of Environmental Journalists has written EPA again, asking that its press shop stop distortions, ethically questionable treatment of journalists and appropriation of partisan news for official press releases. That, plus an update on the SEJ’s executive director search, in the latest President’s Report.

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Death and Taxes [40]

A veteran freelancer struggles with tax season in the wake of an unexpected personal tragedy. But as she makes her way through a forest of forms, she offers a series of tips and observations for fellow independents, in the return of our regular Freelance Files column.

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When Disaster Strikes, Building Codes May Make Things Worse [42]

They may not be the sexiest topics on the environmental agenda. But building codes and zoning can become a matter of life and death when natural disasters strike. This week’s TipSheet runs down the reporting challenge when floods, earthquakes and wildfires threaten your coverage area.

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TipSheet [16]

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Disasters [5]

People & Population [10]

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Alaska and Hawaii [43]

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Hotting Up: How Climate Change Could Swallow Louisiana's Tabasco Island [47]

"Avery Island, a dome of salt fringed by marshes where Tabasco sauce has been made for the past 150 years, has been an outpost of stubborn consistency near the Louisiana coast. But the state is losing land to the seas at such a gallop that even its seemingly impregnable landmarks are now threatened."

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Source: Guardian [48], 03/28/2018

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"Once Written Off for Dead, the Aral Sea Is Now Full of Life" [49]

"Omirserik Ibragimov fixed his gaze on the hole he had carved out from the frozen Aral Sea. The 25-year-old’s hands moved steadily, pulling out a fishing net that he and his father had left under the solid, snow-covered surface just three days earlier."

Fish & Fisheries [22]

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Asia [50]

Source: Pulitzer Center [51], 03/28/2018

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"Fishermen Suit Against Atlantic Marine Monument Moves Ahead" [52]

"Organizations suing to eliminate the first national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean have gotten the OK to proceed with a suit designed to reopen the area to commercial fishing, which environmentalists fear could jeopardize preservation efforts."

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Source: AP [54], 03/28/2018

Read more about "Fishermen Suit Against Atlantic Marine Monument Moves Ahead" [52]

Record Extreme Weather Disasters Spur Mitigation Windfall In Omnibus [55]

"The $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill President Trump signed last week includes a record amount of funding to prepare communities for future extreme weather events that scientists say are being exacerbated by the impacts of global warming."

Public [14]