NAJA Tribal Nations Media Guide
The Native American Journalists Association's Guide offers a context checklist to consider when reporting on Indigenous communities: government, economy, geography, treaties, people and culture.
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Another Casualty Of Coronavirus Pandemic: Trust In Government Science
"This has been the 2020 pattern: Politics has thoroughly contaminated the scientific process. The result has been an epidemic of distrust, which further undermines the nation’s already chaotic and ineffective response to the coronavirus."
Source: Washington Post, 10/13/2020
Could Dems Borrow GOP Playbook To Roll Back Trump Rules?
If oddsmakers are right and the Dems sweep the White House and both houses of Congress next month, one significant outcome could be the rollback of prominent Trump administration deregulatory moves. The latest TipSheet explains how an arcane law might make such reversals possible, and then spotlights half-a-dozen potentially vulnerable Trump regulatory actions.
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"Social Media: Climate Falsehoods Reached Millions On Facebook"
"Climate denial groups have used Facebook to spread disinformation to millions of people in the lead-up to the 2020 elections, according to a new report."
Source: E&E News, 10/09/2020
Harris, Pence Spar Over Climate Science, Fracking, and Green New Deal
"Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) sparred over their commitment to the science of climate change, with the vice president repeatedly falsely asserting a Biden administration plans to ban fracking and adopt the Green New Deal."
Source: The Hill, 10/08/2020
"Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents"
"Exxon Mobil Corp. had plans to increase annual carbon-dioxide emissions by as much as the output of the entire nation of Greece, an analysis of internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg shows, setting one of the largest corporate emitters against international efforts to slow the pace of warming."
Source: Bloomberg, 10/06/2020
"White House: Trump Team Delaying Work On Major Climate Report"
"The Trump administration is slow-walking a mandatory climate report by not seeking out scientists to work on it, says one of the authors of the last National Climate Assessment."
Source: E&E News, 10/06/2020
Plant Trackers Help Mark Coal’s Decline
Keeping tabs on the increasingly frequent closing of U.S. coal-fired electric power plants is an important way to follow developments on the larger climate change beat. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox points to several mapping databases that help make the job far easier — whether watching the industry in the United States or abroad.
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HHS Renews $10.2 Million Contract For COVID-19 Data Tracking Company
"The Department of Health and Human Services decided to award a second $10.2 million, six-month contract to TeleTracking Technologies even though Congressional committees are investigating the process by which the contract was awarded and the HHS Inspector General is looking at how the company is securing the information it is gathering, an NPR Investigation has learned."
Source: NPR, 10/05/2020
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