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April 27, 2026

DEADLINE: Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) Grants [1]

The Fund for Investigative Journalism is accepting applications for regular grants (up to $10,000 for full investigative stories) and seed grants for early reporting (up to $2,500). Proposals for both types of grants are due on April 27, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern.

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New US Strategy for Coping with Climate Change Open for Comment [10]

NOAA, the USFWS, and the NY State Dept. of Environmental Conservation (representing all state and wildlife agencies) released on Jan. 19, 2012, a draft of the first national strategy for responding to climate change effects on plants, fish and wildlife. The public comment period is open until March 5, 2012, and public meetings and a webinar will occur until Feb. 22, 2012.

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Planning & Growth [12]
People & Population [8]
Climate Change [13]
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New USDA Plant Hardiness Map Reflects Changing US Climate [14]

Finally, after numerous delays amid allegations of political interference by people who don't want to see documented evidence of climate shifts, the wait is over. The new detailed interactive map is based on data from 1976-2005, and is the first official revision since the 1990 update.

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Planning & Growth [12]
Climate Change [13]
Agriculture [15]
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NGOS Fill Federal Void on Plant Hardiness Zone Changes [16]

The American Horticultural Society and the National Arbor Day Foundation offer generalized hardiness maps as a starting point, until the US Department of Agriculture gets around to unveiling its own update.

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Climate Change [13]
Agriculture [15]
Planning & Growth [12]
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Talks Delay Rules for Power Plant, Refinery GHG Limits [17]

One day, EPA may propose rules for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and petroleum refineries. But the process continues to drag out, with the consent of the state and local governments and environmental advocacy groups that have been litigating for about five years to make the agency take action.

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Pollution [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Climate Change [13]
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UN Pitches Rio+20 Talks as Departure From Political Strife on Climate [20]

"UNITED NATIONS -- This summer's sustainable development conference in Brazil, known as Rio+20, is emerging as an overt attempt by U.N. officials to shift away from the divisive politics of climate change to a broader debate on the green economy and how to bring it to developing nations."

Environmental Politics [21]
Natural Resources [22]
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International [23]
Source: ClimateWire [24], 02/01/2012

Oklahoma Residents Settle for $119 Million Over Old Blackwell Smelter [25]

"BLACKWELL, Okla. — Blackwell Zinc Co. paid one of the best wages in Kay County before environmental problems and contamination concerns closed it in 1974. Now some residents here are entitled to one last payday — this time for damages caused by the smelter operation."

Pollution [18]
Public [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
Source: Oklahoman [27], 02/01/2012

"Republican Transportation Vision: More Highways, Funded By Drilling" [28]

"House Transportation Chair John Mica introduced Americans to the GOP vision for transportation on Tuesday -- more highways and more toll roads. To pay for it all, there would more offshore drilling. Democrats and environmentalists, predictably, weren't impressed."

Environmental Politics [21]
Transportation [29]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Huffington Post [30], 02/01/2012

Texas Fracking Disclosure Rule Takes Effect Today [31]

"FORT WORTH, Texas — A new Texas Railroad Commission rule requiring oil and natural gas operators to publicly disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing of natural gas and oil wells takes effect Wednesday."

Journalism & Media [6]
Public [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
Source: Ft. Worth Star-Telegram [32], 02/01/2012

"A Vast Canadian Wilderness Poised for a Uranium Boom" [33]

"Canada’s Nunavut Territory is the largest undisturbed wilderness in the Northern Hemisphere. It also contains large deposits of uranium, generating intense interest from mining companies and raising concerns that a mining boom could harm the caribou at the center of Inuit life."

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Nuclear Power & Radiation [34]
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Canada [35]
Source: YaleE360 [36], 02/01/2012

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