"American Kids Are Being Exposed to Lead From Airports"
"Children living near a small California airport were more likely to have elevated levels of lead in their blood, a new study found."
Source: Earther, 01/13/2023
Environmental Health
"Ban Gas Stoves? Just the Idea Gets Some in Washington Boiling."
"The nation’s top consumer watchdog agency raised concerns about indoor air pollution from gas stoves. A political firestorm ensued."
Source: NYTimes, 01/12/2023
Winning Over Editors and Others with Award Winners’ Multimedia Nuggets
If you’re looking to engage key constituencies for your journalism — whether editors, sources, students or people who have been marginalized — a new set of short videos from award-winning journalists (like KESQ's Angela Chen, at left) can serve as a helpful resource. Inside Story has a roadmap of how to make smart use of these video nuggets to, for instance, convince newsroom powerbrokers to give you more time and support for ambitious stories.
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Water-Sharing in the West: An Urgent and Complicated Environmental Story
Water has always been a precious commodity in the western states. Now, with rapid population growth and a drying climate, the way this resource is shared and distributed is becoming more contentious across the region. Freelance journalist Jennifer Oldham talks about the tensions between supply and demand and how to drill down into water rights laws and policies.
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"Global Pollinator Losses Causing 500,000 Early Deaths A Year – Study"
"The global loss of pollinators is already causing about 500,000 early deaths a year by reducing the supply of healthy foods, a study has estimated."
Source: Guardian, 01/10/2023
"US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears"
"The US Consumer Product Safety Commission will move to regulate gas stoves as new research links them to childhood asthma."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 01/09/2023
"PFAS Bans, Restrictions Go Into Effect in States in 2023"
"Laws and regulations restricting “forever chemicals” in more than a half dozen states are entering effect in 2023, including the start of a timeline for a first-in-the-nation ban on PFAS in all products in Maine."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/09/2023
"Great Salt Lake On Track To Disappear In Five Years, Scientists Warn"
"Without dramatic cuts to water consumption, Utah’s Great Salt Lake is on track to disappear within five years, a dire new report warns, imperiling ecosystems and exposing millions of people to toxic dust from the drying lake bed."
Source: Washington Post, 01/09/2023
"EPA Targets Plastics Company in PFAS Probe"
"EPA and environmental groups are targeting a company for allegedly releasing “forever chemicals” into tens of millions of plastic containers that later contaminated pesticides, which the agency said poses “unreasonable” risks to workers and the environment.
Source: E&E News, 01/06/2023
"Study: Toxic PFAS Chemical Plume Detected in Green Bay"
"A large plume of toxic chemicals produced by a plant that manufactures firefighting foam has seeped through groundwater to Lake Michigan’s Green Bay, scientists said Tuesday."
Source: AP, 01/06/2023
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