EV Battery Manufacturing Capacity Will Rise When 10 New Plants Come Online
"Ten new electric vehicle battery factories are on track to go online this year in the United States."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/21/2025
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"National Science Foundation Fires Roughly 10% Of Its Workforce"
"The National Science Foundation fired 168 employees on Tuesday. According to an NSF spokesperson, the firings are to ensure compliance with President Trump's executive order aimed at reducing the federal workforce in the name of efficiency."
Source: NPR, 02/19/2025
Trump DOE Delays Implementation Of Biden-Era Appliance Efficiency Rules
"The Energy Department on Friday afternoon announced it would “postpone” Biden’s efficiency rules for lightbulbs, clothes washers and dryers, air conditioners, air compressors and gas-powered water heaters."
Source: The Hill, 02/18/2025
From Oil Boom to Lithium Rush — Reporting the Realities
A coming lithium rush in Arkansas drew the notice of journalist Katie Myers, who used a grant from the Fund for Environmental Journalism to explore whether extraction activities near once-booming energy communities could avoid the economic and environmental impacts of another boom-and-bust cycle for a largely Black region with histories of land dispossession, plantation slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Lessons learned in the latest FEJ StoryLog.
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"EPA Removes EJScreen From Its Website" (But Not From the Web)
"On February 5th, EPA removed from its website the environmental justice mapping and screening tool, EJScreen, as well as several related web pages. ... Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) released a reconstruction of Version 2.3 of EPA’s EJScreen."
Source: EDGI, 02/13/2025
Calif. Loves Dungeness Crab, But Whale Safety Concerns Put Industry In Peril
"The Dungeness crab fishery is under increasing regulation as California tries to prevent whales from getting entangled in fishing gear. Facing a truncated season and sharp limits on how many pots they can throw, crabbers wonder whether the industry can survive. Experiments with a new form of pop-up crabbing gear show promise and could offer a solution."
Source: LA Times, 02/12/2025
Trump Pushes For Plastic Straws As He Declares Paper Ones ‘Don’t Work’
"President Donald Trump is moving to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper straws “don’t work” and don’t last very long."
Source: AP, 02/11/2025
AI’s Importance in Journalism and Teaching — Part 2
In Part 2 of a two-part EJ Academy, SEJournal’s Emilia Askari examines changes artificial intelligence is bringing to journalism — among them possibilities for the analysis of data, including on climate and the environment. Plus, ways to use AI tools more effectively and how to track news organizations’ response to and use of AI. Also: Part 1, AI in the classroom.
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