Natural Gas Giant Waging Sneaky War On A Minor Colorado Climate Policy
"Leaked audio reveals that the nation’s biggest gas-only utility is behind a new astroturf group."
Source: HuffPost, 03/07/2022
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Environmental Justice Beat Gets Boost From New Database
The Biden administration, which has been making environmental justice a top goal, has released a new screening tool that complements existing environmental equity databases, but with especially strong attention to a range of categories like clean transit, clean water, housing issues, life expectancy and more (although, interestingly, not race). The latest Reporter’s Toolbox has a guide to the new screening tool.
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A Report Card on Transparency in the Biden Administration
A coalition of open-government and journalism groups is pressing the Justice Department for a clear statement of federal policy favoring openness. The new WatchDog opinion column explains why such a move is needed, and now, not just to signal a change from the Trump-era approach, but also for smoother functioning of the all-important Freedom of Information Act.
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#SEJSpotlight: Marianne Messina, Freelance Journalist
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"IG: FOIA ‘Awareness Program’ Troubled Some Interior Staff"
"A Trump-era FOIA policy at the Interior Department caused some professionals to worry that “political considerations” were hampering the release of information, the department’s watchdog agency reported today."
Source: E&E News, 03/02/2022
"SOTU: What Biden Said — And Didn’t Say — On Climate"
"President Biden used his first State of the Union address to reset his administration after a year of inflation and crises at home and abroad that has left him with nearly record-low approval ratings. But Biden did little to restart his stalled climate agenda."
Source: E&E News, 03/02/2022
Canon Thinktank Pressured To Remove ‘Dangerous’ Climate Articles
"A thinktank linked to Japanese technology giant Canon is coming under pressure to remove multiple articles from a research director who describes the climate crisis as “fake news” and compares campaigner Greta Thunberg to a communist."
Source: Guardian, 02/28/2022
US Oil Industry Leaps On Invasion Of Ukraine To Argue For More Drilling
"The US oil and gas industry is using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to pressure the Biden administration to throw open more land and ocean for domestic drilling and to loosen regulations for large companies attempting to ramp up their fossil fuel extraction."
Source: Guardian, 02/28/2022
Houston Plays Host to First On-Site SEJ Conference Since 2019
Environmental journalists from around the country and beyond will gather in Houston later this month for the Society of Environmental Journalists’ 31st annual conference. Widely known as the energy capital of the world, this highly diverse city is an ideal place to drill down on the causes and consequences of climate change and other environmental issues of the day.
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