Environmental Justice

February 4, 2021

Localizing the ‘Land Grab Universities’ Story

Join FIJ and NAJA for an online forum, 11:30 a.m. ET. Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee will discuss their report on land taken from Native Americans and given to colleges and universities, which produced a database of nearly 11 million acres of land and the agreements associated with it. The forum will help you learn how to access and navigate the data to localize this story.

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February 17, 2021

DEADLINE: IJNR Virtual Workshop for Editors on Covering Environmental Racism

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources invites editors to apply by Feb 17 for this 11:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ET training, to explore environmental racism, social equity and the problematic lenses through which these stories get told.

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"Grim Prospects for Drilling on Arctic Leases Despite Trump Push"

"Donald Trump pushed through controversial oil leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as one of his last acts as president—but legal observers say the chance that oil development actually proceeds there is slim."

Source: Bloomberg, 01/21/2021

"Biden, in a Burst of Climate Orders, Rejoins the Paris Agreement"

"President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday recommitted the United States to the Paris climate agreement, the international accord designed to avert catastrophic global warming, and ordered federal agencies to start reviewing and reinstating more than 100 environmental regulations that were weakened or rolled back by former President Donald J. Trump."

Source: NYTimes, 01/21/2021

"EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Taken to Court by States, Cities"

"A coalition of 18 states, one county, and the nation’s three biggest cities sued the EPA on Tuesday in New York federal court over a final rule that restricts how science can be used in future agency rulemaking."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/20/2021

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