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Winning Over Editors and Others with Award Winners’ Multimedia Nuggets

If you’re looking to engage key constituencies for your journalism — whether editors, sources, students or people who have been marginalized — a new set of short videos from award-winning journalists (like KESQ's Angela Chen, at left) can serve as a helpful resource. Inside Story has a roadmap of how to make smart use of these video nuggets to, for instance, convince newsroom powerbrokers to give you more time and support for ambitious stories.

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"Global Pollinator Losses Causing 500,000 Early Deaths A Year – Study"

"The global loss of pollinators is already causing about 500,000 early deaths a year by reducing the supply of healthy foods, a study has estimated."

Source: Guardian, 01/10/2023

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"UN Says Ozone Layer Slowly Healing, Hole To Mend By 2066"

"Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says."

Source: AP, 01/10/2023

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"PFAS Bans, Restrictions Go Into Effect in States in 2023"

"Laws and regulations restricting “forever chemicals” in more than a half dozen states are entering effect in 2023, including the start of a timeline for a first-in-the-nation ban on PFAS in all products in Maine."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/09/2023

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"EPA Targets Plastics Company in PFAS Probe"

"EPA and environmental groups are targeting a company for allegedly releasing “forever chemicals” into tens of millions of plastic containers that later contaminated pesticides, which the agency said poses “unreasonable” risks to workers and the environment.

Source: E&E News, 01/06/2023

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"Study: Toxic PFAS Chemical Plume Detected in Green Bay"

"A large plume of toxic chemicals produced by a plant that manufactures firefighting foam has seeped through groundwater to Lake Michigan’s Green Bay, scientists said Tuesday."

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Source: AP, 01/06/2023

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February 28, 2023 to March 9, 2023

US EPA's 2023 National Fish Forum: Human Health and Contaminants in Fish

The U.S. EPA Office of Water will hold this forum virtually to bring together interested stakeholders to discuss the many issues related to human health and contaminants in fish, including environmental justice. Noon-5:30 PM ET on Feb 28, Mar 2, Mar 7 and Mar 9, 2023. Registration is open until February 3, 2023.

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"PFAS Bans, Restrictions Go Into Effect in States as Year Begins"

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/04/2023

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EPA Texts Disappear, Suspicions of Misdeeds Do Not

A scandal at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over regulatory capture of some toxic chemical officials has surfaced another serious issue — the EPA says it can’t provide related phone text messages. But it’s required to do so by law. And for environmental journalists, access to such records is key to holding the agency to account, argues WatchDog Opinion.

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"EPA Investigating Colorado For Discriminatory Air Pollution"

"The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether Colorado’s regulation of air pollution from industrial facilities discriminates against Hispanic residents and other racial minorities, according to a letter released Wednesday."

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Source: AP, 01/02/2023

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