#SEJSpotlight: Ayurella Horn-Muller, Freelance Journalist
Meet SEJ member Ayurella Horn-Muller! Ayurella is an award-winning freelance journalist and a correspondent at news and research nonprofit Climate Central.
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Secretive Texas Company Owns Largest Share of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
"Hilcorp Energy Co. has a spotty pipeline safety record and refuses to make its financial records public. Can it safeguard the pipeline from climate change?"
"Environmental organizations and pipeline experts continue expressing concerns about a secretive Texas petroleum company with a spotty safety record that acquired the largest share of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline last year as thawing permafrost and flooding linked to climate change threatened the massive oil conduit.
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/24/2021
RCMP Tracked Photojournalist Amber Bracken In Investigations Database
"An RCMP officer reveals police were collecting information about journalists Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano in a database of police investigations".
Source: The Narwhal, 11/23/2021
Congressional Infrastructure Bill Loaded With Local Stories
The massive infrastructure measure signed into law last week is a potential mother lode of stories for environmental journalists. If that is, they can figure out where the money is going. The latest TipSheet takes an initial look at the $1.2 trillion plan and offers guidance on how to track down reportable local and regional projects.
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Rural Reporter Turns Routine Permit Into Award-Winning Investigation
It was a seemingly mundane legal notice about a surface water discharge permit. But when Wyoming journalist Angus Thuermer Jr. took a closer look, he discovered that it would mean massive discharges of pollutants into local waters. Inside Story explains how Thuermer revealed the truth about the plans, prompting local protests and, ultimately, a withdrawal of the permit.
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"COP26: The Truth Behind The New Climate Change Denial"
"As world leaders met at the COP26 summit to debate how to tackle climate change, misleading claims and falsehoods about the climate spiralled on social media. ... We've looked at some of the most viral claims of the past year, and what the evidence really says."
Source: BBC News, 11/22/2021
#SEJSpotlight: Eduardo Franco Berton, Freelance Investigative Journalist and Conservation Photographer
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RCMP Arrest Journalists, Land Defenders Following Gidimt’en Eviction
"RCMP arrested two journalists, including photojournalist Amber Bracken, on assignment for The Narwhal, during police enforcement of a Coastal GasLink injunction in northwest B.C. Friday."
Source: The Narwhal, 11/22/2021
"Brazil Accused Of 'Greenwashing' The Amazon's Deforestation"
"Deforestation in the Amazon region has risen for the fourth straight year, despite international pressure and pledges from Brazil's government to preserve the rainforest."
Source: DW, 11/22/2021
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