Panel: Conflict Looms over Environment and Energy in 2015
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"The Truth Behind Peabody's Campaign To Rebrand Coal as a Poverty Cure"
"The story Linda Jing tells in the video is slick and persuasive: she was a girl from a poor village forced to study by candlelight because there was no electricity until coal-fired power plants arrived, transforming her destiny and that of China."
Source: Guardian, 05/20/2015
Can Nonprofit News Rescue Environmental Journalism?
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"USDA Develops New Government Label for GMO-Free Products"
"The Agriculture Department has developed a government certification and labeling for foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients."
Source: Wash Post, 05/15/2015
"Oil Lobby Launches Ads Against EPA Ozone Rule"
"The oil industry is launching a multimedia advertising campaign tomorrow in opposition to the Obama administration’s attempt to restrict allowable concentrations of ozone pollution."
Source: The Hill, 05/15/2015
"Green Group Launches Smog Text Alert System"
"The Sierra Club launched a system Tuesday to send text message alerts when smog pollution is at a high level in certain areas."
Source: The Hill, 05/07/2015
Despite FOIA, EPA Press Policy Remains a Puzzle Palace
In response to the WatchDog's request for the U.S. EPA's press policy, EPA seems to be saying that it doesn't have one. Or that paradoxically EPA staff can talk to reporters but are forbidden to talk to reporters. Or that EPA does not respond to requests for information. Even though the WatchDog finally got a partial response to its June 10, 2014, FOIA request for EPA policies on news media access to EPA employees on April 29, 2015, nothing was revealed. Puzzled? So are we.
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Old-School Reporting in a New-Style Package
"Inside Story" editor Beth Daley speaks with J. Carl Ganter, director of Circle of Blue, a Michigan-based team of journalists and researchers that reports on the global intersection of water, food and energy. Photo: Punjabi farmers who use free water and energy are causing food waste and power shortages in India. Credit: © J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue.
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Workers No Safer 2 Years After West, Texas, Blast: Report
"Do your first responders have the information they need in an emergency?"
Source: In These Times, 04/22/2015
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