"The state’s environmental agency has the authority to investigate and issue fines for illegal spills, but lacks sufficient staff and resources."
"Virginia’s newly elected Democratic Attorney General Jay Jones took action Thursday that creates a pathway for Virginia to rejoin the carbon market called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI."
"Six cities and 13 nonprofit groups still cannot recoup millions of dollars after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals this week overturned a lower court’s ruling that forbade the Trump administration from terminating or freezing grant funding for environmental justice, agricultural and climate programs."
"A massive pipe that moves millions of gallons of sewage has ruptured and sent wastewater flowing into the Potomac River northwest of Washington, D.C., polluting it ahead of a major winter storm that has repair crews scrambling."
"The city of Philadelphia on Thursday sued the Department of the Interior after National Park Service staff removed an exhibit on slavery from the President’s House site in Independence National Historical Park."
"This historic storm is will spread destructive ice and heavy snow over 34 states through Monday including the South, Midwest and Northeast."
Outgoing board president Halle Parker reflects on her year leading the organization as her term comes to a close, thanking board members, staff and volunteers for their work during a challenging time for journalism. She highlights key changes aimed at better supporting freelancers and students, notes efforts to strengthen representation and community within SEJ and looks ahead to the organization’s 35th anniversary conference in Chicago. Parker also underscores why recent membership bylaw revisions — approved by members — are critical to SEJ’s future.
"The historic site, on an island in South Carolina, could be inundated by rising seas in decades to come. A display on the threat has been removed."
"Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon region, authorities said Thursday."
"Neither the House nor the Senate included funding for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service in new spending bills. The Interior Department is still forging ahead."
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