"Skin Deep: Feeding the Global Lust for Leather"
"Leather processing is big business in Bangladesh, India, and other parts of the developing world, where regulations are lax and poisons run freely."
Source: Undark, 02/21/2017
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"Trump Energizes The Anti-Vaccine Movement In Texas"
"The group of 40 people gathered at a popular burger and fish taco restaurant in San Antonio listened eagerly to the latest news about the anti-vaccine fight taking place in the Texas legislature."
Source: Washington Post, 02/21/2017
Toxics Database a Key Tool for Environmental Journalists
The Toxics Release Inventory has long been a vital reporting tool, and now there's a new edition of the database, issued last month by the outgoing Obama administration. Reporter's Toolbox walks you through how to smartly mine TRI for stories, whether you're a newbie or a veteran. Plus, TRI caveats.
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"Politics-Wary Scientists Wade into the Trump Fray at Boston Rally"
"Hundreds of scientists put aside their habitual wariness toward political activity and rallied over the weekend in Boston’s Copley Square, with many saying the Trump administration has left them no choice."
Source: Scientific American, 02/20/2017
Lead Ammunition Poisons Wildlife But Too Expensive To Change: Hunters
"On the day before President Trump's inauguration, the outgoing Obama administration passed a last-minute directive, banning the use of lead ammunition and fishing sinkers on federal land."
Source: NPR, 02/20/2017
"Scott Pruitt Makes It Clear That The Clean Power Plan Is Going Away"
"In his first interview as EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt made one thing very clear: the Clean Power Plan, the signature climate regulation of the Obama administration, is not long for this world."
Source: Think Progress, 02/20/2017
Experts Paint A Dire Portrait Of Climate Change’s Public Health Impacts
"ATLANTA — In a gathering impacted by presidential politics, an all-star cast of public health experts largely stuck to their own bleak script: Climate change is poised to unleash an unprecedented, global public health crisis."
Source: Daily Climate, 02/17/2017
"Scientists' Group Launches Website to Help Federal Whistleblowers"
"Fearing an assault on science from the Trump administration, the Union of Concerned Scientists is creating a way for federal scientists to report abuses."
Source: InsideClimate News, 02/16/2017
Veteran Reporters Say Ignore the Noise, and Localize
Environmental journalists at a day-long event urged colleagues to report on the real, local impacts of policy, more than on the buzz around the policy. On hand at the SEJ-sponsored program were representatives of administrations past and present, including Trump EPA transition team head Myron Ebell (shown).
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Tracy Mehan lll, American Water Works Association
Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Ed Maibach, George Mason University
Scott Segal, Policy Resolution Group and Bracewell LLP
Bob Perciasepe, Center for Climate & Energy Solutions
Environmental advocates
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"Why Killer Viruses Are On The Rise"
"Pygmy elephants. Monkeys with noses the size of beer cans. And a deer so small you could cradle it like a baby.... We're in the middle of Malaysia's Borneo rain forest. Olival has brought us here because this is the type of place where pandemics are born. HIV came from a rain forest. So did Ebola. Yellow fever. And Zika."
Source: NPR, 02/14/2017
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