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Two Communities, Two Hazards and the Two Award-Winners Reporting Them [1]

Two outstanding features — one on air pollution from a local coke plant in Pennsylvania, another on deaths from a shellfish toxin in Alaska, and both focused on public health, neglected communities and environmental justice — are the subject of the new Inside Story Q&A. Society of Environmental Journalists’ award-winners Nancy Averett and Zoya Teirstein share their reporting insights and advice.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [3]
Climate Change [4]
Diversity [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Studies [9]
Fish & Fisheries [10]
Food [11]
Health [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Science [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [18]
Alaska and Hawaii [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [20]
Visibility: 
Public [21]
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Getting Glasgow — Covering the Climate Conference From Afar [22]

A critically important global gathering to advance the Paris climate accords gets underway in Scotland next month. And the latest TipSheet offers an extensive walk-through on the UN meeting — basic terminology and negotiating aims, global politics, green climate funds and more — to help environmental journalists report on it with relevance, whether from there or home.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [23]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [4]
Environmental Politics [24]
Government [25]
Journalism & Media [13]
Policy [26]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [18]
International [27]
Asia [28]
Australia & Oceania [29]
Europe [30]
Middle East [31]
Visibility: 
Public [21]
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#SEJSpotlight: Anton L. Delgado, Reporter, Southeast Asia Globe [32]

#SEJSpotlight graphic for Anton Delgado

 

Topics on the Beat: 
Journalism & Media [13]
Visibility: 
Public [21]
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"Love The National Parks? Get Ready For Them To Heat Up" [33]

"Glaciers vanishing in Glacier National Park. Sand dunes blowing away at White Sands in New Mexico. Wildfire smoke obscuring the Tetons, flames licking at the sequoias near their namesake park, Joshua trees dying out in their namesake park. These are just some of the ways that global heating is reshaping America’s public lands."

Climate Change [4]
Natural Resources [34]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: LA Times [35], 09/24/2021
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"Philanthropists Pledge $5 Billion To Save Threatened Species" [36]

"The Wyss Foundation and eight other philanthropic organizations pledged Wednesday to give $5 billion by 2030 to protect biodiversity around the planet, the largest-ever private gift for conservation."

Biodiversity [37]
Economy & Business [38]
Wildlife [39]
Public [21]
International [27]
Source: Washington Post [40], 09/24/2021
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Rising Natural Gas Prices Help Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Electricity Sources [41]

"Natural gas prices have surged, reverberating across the energy economy."

Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 09/24/2021
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"Biden Picks Trump Critic To Lead EPA Science Office" [43]

"A longtime expert adviser to EPA on air issues and an outspoken critic of the Trump administration is President Biden’s choice for leading the agency’s science office."

Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [24]
Science [16]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [44], 09/24/2021
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FERC Blames Texas Energy Policies For Severity Of February Blackouts [45]

"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released some findings on Thursday from an investigation into February’s deadly winter storm and blackouts. Regulators faulted Texas energy policy for much of the disaster."

Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [46]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [47]
Source: Houston Public Media [48], 09/24/2021
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Gov. Newsom Signs $15 Billion Climate Package At Sequoia National Park [49]

"Speaking at Sequoia National Park, where firefighters have toiled for the past two weeks to keep wildfires from killing some of the largest trees in the world, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed a package of bills providing $15 billion for a wide range of climate, wildfire and water projects — from thinning forests to building electric car charging stations and encouraging the development of offshore wind farms."

Climate Change [4]
Disasters [50]
Laws & Regulations [46]
Public [21]
California [51]
Source: San Jose Mercury News [52], 09/24/2021
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"Drilling on the Arctic Beach" [53]

"Russian Arctic oil is moving north into territories previously untouched by man. The latests lands up for industrial expansion might be the shorelines and delta areas of several Arctic rivers and bays."

Disasters [50]
Economy & Business [38]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [21]
Antarctica & Arctic [54]
Source: Barents Observer [55], 09/24/2021
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