Hunting Pirates Who Steal Millions of Tons of Fish From the Seas
"These criminal actors threaten fragile species, forcing an international coalition to track them down".
Source: Smithsonian, 08/25/2020
Laws & Regulations
How Maryland's Trash-Burning Bias Galvanized Activists in Baltimore
"Shashawnda Campbell became an environmental activist at 15, when she learned that a company had proposed building the country's largest waste-to-energy incinerator less than a mile from her high school, in the Curtis Bay section of Baltimore."
Source: InsideClimate News, 08/25/2020
"Thousands Allowed To Bypass Environmental Rules In Pandemic"
"Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment because of the coronavirus outbreak, The Associated Press has found."
Source: AP, 08/25/2020
Dems’ Climate Plan Takes Aim At The Fossil Industry’s Political Power
"Senate Democrats are set to release a 200-page plan arguing that significant US climate action will require stripping the fossil fuel industry of its influence over the government and the public’s understanding of the crisis."
Source: Guardian, 08/25/2020
Bringing Stories Home Under Lockdown, With Remote Video Interviews
They’ve long been a staple of the news business. But now, with the pandemic continuing to keep journalists from their subjects, remote video interviews have become an essential tool. And even newbie video reporters can quickly learn the basics. Science video producer Eli Kintisch shares a quick eight-step remote video setup and some simple tricks of the trade, in this SEJournal how-to.
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Potentially Explosive Fertilizer Could Be Found in Your Community
Ammonium nitrate, the explosive agricultural fertilizer that blew up in Lebanon this month, killing dozens and severely damaging Beirut’s center, is stored by the thousands of tons all over the United States. But regulatory blindspots and secretive information policies mean few know exactly where. Backgrounder reviews the chemical’s oversight regime — and its gaps — and has ideas for reporting from your community.
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‘Like Paradise’: The Cree Nation’s Fight To Save The Broadback Forest
"This 1.3 million hectare forest in Quebec has never been logged or known the incursion of roads. It’s also one of the most carbon dense places on the planet, holding twice as much carbon as the Amazon per hectare — but community members fear ‘the loggers are coming’".
Source: The Narwhal, 08/24/2020
"EPA Pesticide Panel Latest Test Case for Defeated Adviser Policy"
"When the EPA’s pesticide advisers meet later this month, at issue will be not just the topics they deliberate—but who’s doing the deliberating in the first place."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/24/2020
Trump Administration To Pause Permit for Alaska’s Pebble Mine Today
"The Trump administration will say Monday that it is not ready to grant a permit for a controversial gold and copper mine in Alaska, according to three individuals briefed on the decision, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, on the grounds that the firm must do more to address how it will harm the environment."
Source: Washington Post, 08/24/2020
Key Republicans Push To Block Controversial Alaskan Pebble Mine
"Federal approval of a controversial gold and copper mine in Alaska that would be the largest in North America may be put on hold after a small group of influential Republicans — including the president’s son, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a wealthy Trump donor and one of the vice president’s former top aides — launched a full-court press to block the project."
Source: Washington Post, 08/21/2020
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