Health

Waste Incineration May Put Toxics Into Local Air

Sometimes on the environment beat, what seems like an old story is perpetually new again. That’s the case with waste incineration, finds the latest TipSheet. Rather than being reduced, incinerators are just being transformed, with the ongoing burning of plastics especially troubling for the environment and public health. Get the backstory on where the regulatory regime may have holes, plus key reporting angles and story ideas.

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Data on Pesticide Incidents Openly Available for First Time

A decade’s worth of government pesticide data — only available before through FOIA — has been made newly available. And, explains the latest Reporter’s Toolbox, it can lead to revealing environmental, public health and environmental justice stories. More on how the data came to be compiled and advice on using it smartly, along with some caveats.

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Painful Process Underway of Regulating PFAS in Drinking Water

Long-growing concern over dangerous “forever” chemicals has drawn the attention of federal and state policymakers, local communities and the utilities that provide their drinking water. But little about regulating PFAS will be quick or easy, making it a major environmental and public health story for years to come. Issue Backgrounder unfolds the regulatory moves, the politics and the larger implications of PFAS policy.

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The Spread of Harmful Algal Blooms Makes News in Multitude of Locales

As algal blooms (think “red tides” or “dead zones”) grow larger and more frequent, they are emerging not just on the coasts and major estuaries, but in inland lakes and streams. And they cause all kinds of harm, to humans and to the environment. The latest TipSheet has details on how to cover the problem locally, including story ideas and reporting resources.

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Asthma Data — A Starting Point for Key Environment-Health Stories

Whether marginalized communities suffering from asthma or cities cloaked in smoke from far-away wildfires, journalists looking to connect public health and environmental concerns around air pollution will find much of the data they need via the Centers for Disease Control’s asthma surveillance data. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox outlines the source and smart ways to use it.

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August 31, 2023

US EPA Webinar: Food Sovereignty (Part 2) – Food Forests & Sustainable Healthy Foods

This EPA webinar will focus on how forests are an important source of healthy foods for tribal and Indigenous communities. Learn how tribes, tribal communities, indigenous communities, and any interested community can work with forest managers to access and support food forests.

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July 24, 2023

DEADLINE: USC Annenberg Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems

This program supports investigative or explanatory projects on systemic racism in public health, health care policy and the practice of medicine, including inequity in treatment, access to care, patient experience and health outcomes for Black people, Indigenous people and other people of color. Apply by Jul 24, 2023.

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August 24, 2023

AHCJ Rural Health Journalism Workshop

Join the Association of Health Care Journalists in Kansas City for this workshop with the theme "The 5 Most Urgent Conversations About Rural Health." Scholarships are available for Kansas- and Missouri-based journalists that can assist with mileage, registration and one hotel night. Registration closes Aug 11.

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July 20, 2023

AHCJ Webinar: Covering High-Risk Lab Accidents and the COVID-19 Origins Story

In this Association of Health Care Journalists webinar, investigative reporter Alison Young will talk about her book; provide context about what is known about what happened at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and about lab leaks more broadly; and offer resources and tips for staying on top of this very timely issue. 2 p.m. ET.

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July 19, 2023

AHCJ Webinar: Cancer News — Balancing Fear, Hype and Reality

At this Association of Health Care Journalists webinar, experts will suggest approaches to putting the latest U.S. Preventive Services Task Force screening recommendations in context while eliminating hype and not creating false hope. 2:00 p.m. ET.

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