Reversing Trump, White House Moves To Weigh Climate In Infrastructure
"Federal regulators have been instructed to consider planet-warming pollution before approving large projects like pipelines and airports."
Source: HuffPost, 01/11/2023
Environmental Politics
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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NASA Set To Ditch Satellite-Based Environmental Data Source
Instrumentation on the International Space Station that gathers 3-D images of forest canopies and other environmental data is scheduled to soon be junked. But the move is provoking an outcry from scientists and pushback from some politicians. Reporter’s Toolbox examines what the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation does and how journalists might make use of it, while it lasts.
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Water-Sharing in the West: An Urgent and Complicated Environmental Story
Water has always been a precious commodity in the western states. Now, with rapid population growth and a drying climate, the way this resource is shared and distributed is becoming more contentious across the region. Freelance journalist Jennifer Oldham talks about the tensions between supply and demand and how to drill down into water rights laws and policies.
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Grijalva Blasts House Rules Package For Making Public Land Transfers Easier
"The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee blasted a provision in the proposed House rules package that would make it easier to transfer public lands, calling it an indication the new GOP majority intends to pursue a broadly pro-industry agenda."
Source: The Hill, 01/10/2023
"Drilling Down on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change"
"The United States has pledged to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, but Russia’s war in Ukraine set off a bonanza for liquefied natural gas, or LNG. Today, we look at how energy companies and the Biden administration are backsliding on promises to move away from oil and gas."
Source: Reveal, 01/09/2023
"Republicans Target Oil Reserve Releases With Initial Energy Bills"
"House Republicans are honing in on releases from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the first set of bills that they’re expected to take up once they can start legislating."
Source: The Hill, 01/09/2023
Buyers Of Electric Cars Can Get A $7,500 Tax Credit, But It Won't Be Easy
"Uncle Sam wants you to buy an electric vehicle. And he's willing to throw $7,500 your way to make it happen ... if you and the model you want both qualify."
Source: NPR, 01/09/2023
"Biden Administration Moves to Tighten Limits on Deadly Air Pollution"
"A new rule would, for the first time in a decade, reduce emissions of soot that disproportionately harm communities of color."
Source: NYTimes, 01/09/2023
"Brazil Authorities Seek To Punish Pro-Bolsonaro Rioters"
"Brazilian authorities were picking up the pieces and investigating Monday after thousands of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace then trashed the nation’s highest seats of power."
Source: AP, 01/09/2023
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