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EPA Scientific Integrity Policy — Good Journalism and Good Science Need Lots of Light [1]

“Science is back at EPA,” declared the agency’s new administrator. But for reporters to do their job means more, argues the latest WatchDog — it means ditching a long-standing policy that requires EPA scientists have permission, along with press office “minders,” for interviews. Why that holds back quality journalism and government responsibility to protect public health. Plus, how past agency appointees have overruled science.

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Environmental Politics [3]
Government [4]
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Public [9]
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Angling for Stories on Streams Suffering From Climate Change? Try Trout [10]

Telling the local climate change story may mean you’ll have to dip a wading-boot-clad toe into the nearest stream, virtually at least. A decline there of a bellwether species, freshwater trout, could signal climate change-driven changes in critical water temperatures. To help guide your investigation, Reporter’s Toolbox spotlights a government database that taps into a massive network of monitoring stations. 

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Environmental Health [13]
Fish & Fisheries [14]
Journalism & Media [5]
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Fact Check: No, Biden Is Not Trying To Force Americans To Eat Less Red Meat [16]

"Republican members of Congress, Fox News personalities and other prominent right-wing figures are falsely claiming that President Joe Biden is trying to force Americans to eat far less red meat."

Activism [17]
Environmental Politics [3]
Food [18]
Journalism & Media [5]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: CNN [19], 04/27/2021
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"Saudi Arabia To Join New Forum On Climate Change - State News Agency" [20]

"Saudi Arabia will join the United States, Canada, Norway, and Qatar in forming a new platform for oil and gas producers to discuss how they can support the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change, the state news agency SPA reported on Saturday."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Public [9]
International [22]
Source: Reuters [23], 04/27/2021
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"Infrastructure Money Could Aid Push To Plug Oil, Gas Wells" [24]

"By some accounts, Pennsylvania has the worst accumulation of old, unplugged, ownerless oil and gas wells in the nation. There are an estimated 200,000 of them, and the cost to plug them could exceed $6 billion. The state’s orphan well plugging program has been underfunded for decades, but it is primed to take advantage of an influx of cash."

Air [25]
Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Infrastructure [26]
Pollution [27]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [28], 04/27/2021
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"Supreme Court: Military's Mess Sparks Guam Superfund Battle" [29]

"Next week, before the nation's highest court, nearly a century's worth of tension between the United States and Guam over the cleanup of a massive waste site on the remote Pacific island will come to a head."

Chemicals [30]
Environmental Justice [31]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Military [33]
Pollution [27]
Waste [34]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: E&E News [35], 04/27/2021
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New Conservation Corps Could Help the Nation Fight Climate Change [36]

"Proposals currently being considered in Washington differ from the New Deal program because of a focus on employing women and people of color and tackling projects in underserved communities."

Climate Change [12]
Natural Resources [37]
People & Population [38]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Inside Climate News [39], 04/27/2021
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"The Fight to Clean Up the EPA" [40]

"The Environmental Protection Agency recently acknowledged what was plain to most outside observers throughout the Trump era. “Over the past few years, I am aware that political interference sometimes compromised the integrity of our science,” Michal Freedhoff, acting assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, wrote it in a March 10 internal memo."

Chemicals [30]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [3]
Government [4]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Science [7]
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Source: The Intercept [41], 04/27/2021
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EPA Calls Old Creosote Works in Pensacola Threat to Human Health [42]

"Heavy rains have dispersed highly toxic dioxins throughout the Sanders Beach neighborhood for years. Now residents hope the Biden administration will help put an end to their misery."

Chemicals [30]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Pollution [27]
Public [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [43]
Source: Inside Climate News [44], 04/27/2021
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"Paris Climate Agreement Overlooks Wood Pellet Loophole" [45]

"'This rule that was designed to prevent you from counting carbon twice has effectively become a rule in which no carbon is counted at all.'"

"With the U.S. back in the Paris Agreement, and with governments across the country evaluating how they can cut carbon emissions, a question remains about one contentious 'carbon neutral' energy source: wood pellets.

Climate Change [12]
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Forests [46]
Public [9]
International [22]
Source: EHN [47], 04/27/2021
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