"Farewell To The Senate’s Biggest Climate Denier"
"Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) leaves behind a legacy of climate disinformation, and a small army of pro-industry contrarians."
Source: HuffPost, 01/05/2023
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DEADLINE: American Journalism Project's Local News Incubator
The American Journalism Project, with support from the Google News Initiative, is launching this 18-month program to support entrepreneurs in launching a new nonprofit local news organization to serve their communities. $400,000 plus support for R&D and more. Info session on Jan 12. Application deadline is Feb 15, 2023.
DEADLINE: Climate Champion Profiles — A Storytelling Competition
Any teenage journalist anywhere in the world can profile someone who is helping to save the planet for Global Youth & News Media's new global storytelling competition. Two winners get $500 each plus coaching and publication by News Decoder. Deadline is March 1, 2023.
"Has the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point’?"
"One of the first times Luciana Vanni Gatti tried to collect Amazonian air she got so woozy that she couldn’t even operate the controls. An atmospheric chemist, she wanted to measure the concentration of carbon high above the rainforest."
Source: NYTimes Magazine, 01/05/2023
"Emperor Penguins, Reindeer Among Threatened Species: WWF"
"Emperor penguins and reindeer were among the species highlighted in a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report as severely threatened by the cascading impacts of climate change."
Source: DW, 01/05/2023
"Antiquities Act Litigation Threatens Nevada Monument Proposal"
"Tribes and environmentalists are hailing President Joe Biden’s commitment to use the Antiquities Act to create a national monument in Nevada to protect tribal sacred sites, preserve wildlife and Joshua tree habitat, and block the approval of a wind farm."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/05/2023
"Biden Taps Democrat On Interstate Energy Commission As Its Interim Chair"
"President Biden will name Willie Phillips as interim head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the White House confirmed Tuesday."
Source: The Hill, 01/05/2023
Lula’s First Pro-Environment Acts Protect Indigenous People And The Amazon
"In the first day of his third mandate as Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, issued measures to protect the Amazon and Indigenous people, acts highly celebrated by environmentalists and activists as a reversal of an anti-environment-and-Indigenous era from predecessor Jair Bolsonaro."
Source: Mongabay, 01/05/2023
"NPS Cut Its Special Agents By Nearly Half, Memo Shows"
"The National Park Service has reduced the number of criminal investigators who handle difficult cases by 45 percent over the last 20 years, and they will spend less time on property crimes and drug cases as a result, according to an internal memo."
Source: E&E News, 01/05/2023
"Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange"
"Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running bright orange and cloudy, and in some cases they are becoming more acidic. This otherwise undeveloped landscape now looks as if an industrial mine has been in operation for decades, and scientists want to know why."
Source: High Country News, 01/05/2023
