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#SEJSpotlight: Lisa John Rogers, News Editor, Great Lakes Now [1]

Meet SEJ member Lisa John Rogers! Lisa John is an environmental health journalist and art critic from the Midwest. When not writing about regional PFAS news, she's working as the News Editor for Detroit PBS’s Great Lakes Now, an Emmy Award-winning environmental television show and website.

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Tainted Water, Tainted Power — Inside a Hog-Farm Empire [4]

A powerful politician and his family’s groundwater-polluting agricultural business were the focus of an award-winning series that delved into the intersection of politics, power, privilege and regulatory capture. In the latest Inside Story Q&A, journalist Yanqi Xu discusses how the reporting uncovered deep and unexpected impacts on small town economies, water quality and the living conditions of the hog farms’ neighbors.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [5]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [6]
Chemicals [7]
Economy & Business [8]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Health [12]
Journalism & Media [2]
People & Population [13]
Pollution [14]
Waste [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [18]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
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Public Broadcasting Cuts Would Harm Free Press [19]

Trump administration efforts to defund public media, now before Congress, are a misguided effort to harm a source of journalism that is highly trusted by audiences, argues the latest WatchDog Opinion column. And while public broadcasting’s diverse funding sources may insulate it from politics to some degree, the attacks do threaten to chill press freedom, including environmental reporting, more broadly. The latest Dog explains.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog [20]
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Government [21]
Journalism & Media [2]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Policy [23]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [17]
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Public [3]
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"On Ireland’s Peat Bogs: Climate Action Clashes With Tradition – In Pictures" [24]

"Bord na Móna, which was once a peat extraction company, has now committed to one of the largest peatland restoration projects ever undertaken, targeting 33,000 hectares in over 80 bogs with the hope of reducing carbon emissions and increasing biodiversity. But many households still continue to cut turf, relying on it for heating as have previous generations."

Photographs by Clodagh Kilcoyne for Reuters June 15, 2025. [25]

Climate Change [26]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [2]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [28]
Planning & Growth [29]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [3]
Europe [30]
Source: Reuters [25], 06/16/2025
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Researcher Resigns Citing Tulane Censorship On Pollution Racial Disparity [31]

"A Tulane University researcher resigned Wednesday, citing censorship from university leaders who had warned that her advocacy and research exposing the Louisiana petrochemical industry’s health impacts and racial disparities in hiring had triggered blowback from donors and elected officials."

Chemicals [7]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [2]
People & Population [13]
Pollution [14]
Science [32]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [33]
Source: AP [34], 06/16/2025
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"Hundreds Of Laid-Off CDC Employees Are Being Reinstated" [35]

"More than 460 laid-off employees at the nation’s top public health agency received notices Wednesday that they are being reinstated, according to a union representing the workers."

Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [21]
Journalism & Media [2]
Science [32]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [36], 06/16/2025
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Popular NOAA Climate Website Will Be Hobbled, After Trump Cuts Entire Staff [37]

"A widely used federal website that publishes information about changing weather patterns, drought conditions, agricultural best-practices, atmospheric changes and greenhouse gas emissions will no longer be updated, according to current and former employees familiar with the site. The website will stop publishing new content on July 1."

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [38]
Economy & Business [8]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [2]
Science [32]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NPR [39], 06/16/2025
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UN Ocean Summit Ends With Boost For Marine Conservation, Not Climate [40]

"The UN Ocean Conference in the southern French city of Nice concludes this Friday with countries taking steps towards marine protection and declaring a battle over deep sea-mining, but slammed for leaving fossil fuels off the agenda – the key driver of ocean warming. Nations hoping for new financial pledges to help with battling rising sea levels and overfishing were also left disappointed."

Climate Change [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [28]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [3]
International [42]
Source: AFP [43], 06/16/2025
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Trump Cuts EPA Grants to Address Health Risks on Hopi and Navajo Reservations [44]

"Red Feather, which works to improve housing on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, is just one of hundreds of groups that have had grants meant to help disadvantaged communities terminated by the Trump administration." 

Consumer [45]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [46]
Laws & Regulations [22]
People & Population [13]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [47]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 06/16/2025
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Chesapeake Bay Health Slips in 2025 Report Card Amid Persistent Challenges [49]

"The Chesapeake Bay’s health has taken a downturn, according to a new report card, with the estuary relegated from a “C+” to a “C” as climate extremes and runaway pollution limit restoration efforts."

Biodiversity [50]
Climate Change [26]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Natural Resources [28]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [51]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 06/16/2025
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