"Unsafe To Drink"
"A Globe review shows water treatment plants are failing on reserves across Canada. For every system the government fixes, plenty remain in a shambolic state."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 02/22/2017
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"Skin Deep: Feeding the Global Lust for Leather"
"Leather processing is big business in Bangladesh, India, and other parts of the developing world, where regulations are lax and poisons run freely."
Source: Undark, 02/21/2017
Trump To Roll Back Obama Climate, Water Rules Through Executive Action
"President Trump is preparing executive orders aimed at curtailing Obama-era policies on climate and water pollution, according to individuals briefed on the measures."
Source: Washington Post, 02/21/2017
Toxics Database a Key Tool for Environmental Journalists
The Toxics Release Inventory has long been a vital reporting tool, and now there's a new edition of the database, issued last month by the outgoing Obama administration. Reporter's Toolbox walks you through how to smartly mine TRI for stories, whether you're a newbie or a veteran. Plus, TRI caveats.
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"Scott Pruitt Makes It Clear That The Clean Power Plan Is Going Away"
"In his first interview as EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt made one thing very clear: the Clean Power Plan, the signature climate regulation of the Obama administration, is not long for this world."
Source: Think Progress, 02/20/2017
"Navajo Nation Abandoned Uranium Mines Cleanup Gets $600 Million"
"After 50 years, mining companies will pay for cleanup at 94 abandoned uranium mines on Navajo Nation. A historic, $600 million settlement agreement reached by the Navajo Nation, the United States and two subsidiaries of the mining company Freeport-McMoRan aims to address a legacy of uranium mining that stretches back to 1944."
Source: Indian Country Today, 02/16/2017
Veteran Reporters Say Ignore the Noise, and Localize
Environmental journalists at a day-long event urged colleagues to report on the real, local impacts of policy, more than on the buzz around the policy. On hand at the SEJ-sponsored program were representatives of administrations past and present, including Trump EPA transition team head Myron Ebell (shown).
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Tracy Mehan lll, American Water Works Association
Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Ed Maibach, George Mason University
Scott Segal, Policy Resolution Group and Bracewell LLP
Bob Perciasepe, Center for Climate & Energy Solutions
Environmental advocates
Journalists panel
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WatchDog Group Sues for Records as Pruitt Confirmation Vote Nears & More
The latest WatchDog TipSheet details an open-records case against U.S. EPA nominee Scott Pruitt (shown), the scoop on an Agriculture Department animal welfare database that vanished then returned, a reporter busted at Standing Rock, plus items on whistleblowers, coal-ash and more.
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"Pollution Has Worked Its Way Down To The World's Deepest Waters"
"The Mariana Trench in the northern Pacific is the deepest part of the world's oceans. You might think a place that remote would be untouched by human activity. But the Mariana Trench is polluted."
Source: NPR, 02/14/2017
"Swift Repeal Of Obama Rules Leaves Former Staffers Steaming"
"Joe Pizarchik spent more than seven years working on a regulation to protect streams from mountaintop removal coal mining. It took Congress 25 hours to kill it."
Source: Politico, 02/13/2017
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