"How To Investigate Toxic Lead Lurking In Your Community’s Soil"
"New resources from the Center for Public Integrity and Grist aim to teach residents and reporters how to conduct their own research."
Source: Grist, 04/29/2024
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As Bird Flu Spreads In Cows, Scientists Ask 4 Big Questions
"On Friday, Colorado became the latest state to detect the bird flu virus spreading in dairy cattle. It follows revelations earlier in the week that viral fragments are turning up in retail milk."
Source: NPR, 04/29/2024
"This New Biden Rule Will Save Americans $2 Billion On Utility Bills"
"The Biden administration has finalized a major rule change that raises the bar for real estate developers who want newly built homes to qualify for U.S. government-backed loans, laying the groundwork for a massive overhaul in the way Americans build houses."
Source: HuffPost, 04/29/2024
"How Abrupt U-Turns Are Defining U.S. Environmental Regulations"
"The polarization of politics means that rules are imposed, gutted and restored with each election. Experts say that’s bad for the economy."
Source: NYTimes, 04/29/2024
Spurt in Hydro Relicensing To Leave U.S. Awash in Environmental Stories
Hundreds of hydropower dams in the United States will see their licenses expiring in the next decade, generating years-long federal relicensing processes. That prospect calls for close local and regional coverage of the complicated balance between renewable energy needs with negative environmental impacts. The latest TipSheet explains the licensing process and the dam backstory, along with a dozen story ideas and reporting resources.
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Climate Crisis Makes for Real Fashion Emergency
Fast fashion’s lack of sustainability has long been the subject of news media coverage. But now the realities of climate change mean that fashion reporting must be reimagined to include the lived environmental and human rights realities of workers making what we wear, writes contributor Yessenia Funes in the new Voices of Environmental Justice column. Ideas and resources for getting past simplistic fashion industry narratives.
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"Chicago, Northern Illinois Will See Billions Of Noise-Making Bugs Soon"
"The cicadas are coming; billions of them." 'The noise is actually kind of deafening. It sounds like 100 chainsaws being used at the same time,' said Jim Louderman, a collections assistant in the Field Museum's Insect Division."
Source: WLS, 04/26/2024
"Foes Wage Attacks As Biden Rolls Out Power Plant Rules"
"The Biden administration hopes its new rules will withstand an onslaught of legal and political opposition."
Source: E&E News, 04/26/2024
"Standards Set To Eliminate Emissions From New Federal Buildings By 2030"
"The Biden administration has finalized standards for federal buildings that will eliminate onsite fossil fuel usage for new projects by the end of the decade, the Energy Department confirmed Wednesday."
Source: The Hill, 04/26/2024
"White House Unveils Plan To Accelerate Power Grid Expansion"
"The Department of Energy created a one-stop shop for federal permitting, helping transmission developers avoid the lengthy patchwork of regulatory approvals that has slowed major projects. The program makes the department the lead agency in permitting and finalizes a yearslong, multiadministration effort to coordinate the work of at least nine agencies with a hand in permitting power lines."
Source: E&E News, 04/26/2024
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