"How a State Plans to Turn Coal Country Into Coding Country"
"Driven by a tech-industry vision of rural economic revival, Wyoming is requiring all of its K-12 public schools to offer computer science."
Source: NY Times, 08/12/2019
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DEADLINE: Douglas Tweedale Memorial Fellowship
The International Center for Journalists invites Latin American journalists to apply for this biennial fellowship. In 2023, the program begins with a webinar on disinformation and fact-checking best practices. Participants can apply for a 3-week, in-person study tour and newsroom attachment in the U.S. Deadline is Sep 14.
"Summer in the City Is Hot, but Some Neighborhoods Suffer More"
"As the United States suffers through a summer of record-breaking heat, new research shows that temperatures on a scorching summer day can vary as much as 20 degrees across different parts of the same city, with poor or minority neighborhoods often bearing the brunt of that heat."
Source: NY Times, 08/12/2019
"Environmentalists Object To Georgia Power Coal Ash Plans"
"Environmental groups urged Georgia officials to reject plans by Georgia Power to keep coal waste in ponds at several power plants."
Source: AP, 08/12/2019
"Inside The Tsilhqot’in Nation’s Battle Against Taseko Mines"
"A proposed copper and gold mine has been rejected twice by the federal government for its impacts on Fish Lake, an area considered sacred by the Tsilhqot’in. But B.C.’s mining laws allow the company to move ahead with exploration work anyway. That doesn’t square with Tsilhqot’in law and the community says it won’t back down".
Source: The Narwhal, 08/12/2019
"Trump Delay Casts Doubt on First Major U.S. Offshore Wind Farm"
"The Trump administration cast the fate of the nation’s first major offshore wind farm into doubt by extending an environmental review for the $2.8 billion Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts.
Source: Bloomberg, 08/12/2019
"'It Makes Me Angry': Is This The End For America's Joshua Trees?"
"Joshua trees have dotted the Mojave desert for 2.5m years, but even if humans take urgent action to combat the climate crisis, their decimation is all but ensured by the end of this century, a study has found."
Source: Guardian, 08/12/2019
DNC Chair’s New Resolution Could Torpedo Climate Debate Push: Activists
"Democratic National Committee chief Tom Perez has proposed a resolution on the climate crisis that activists fear could be an attempt to undermine the push for a presidential primary debate devoted entirely to global warming."
Source: HuffPost, 08/12/2019
"EPA Dropped Salmon Protection After Trump Met With Alaska Governor"
"The Environmental Protection Agency told staff scientists that it was no longer opposing a controversial Alaska mining project that could devastate one of the world's most valuable wild salmon fisheries just one day after President Trump met with Alaska's governor, CNN has learned."
Source: CNN, 08/12/2019
"In Echo of Flint Lead Crisis, Newark Offers Bottled Water"
"For more than a year, Newark officials denied the city had a widespread lead problem with its drinking water. Then, in an abrupt shift last fall, New Jersey’s largest city began giving out water filters to some residents."
Source: NY Times, 08/12/2019
