"Use COVID-19 To Build Back Better, Cities Told"
"The United Nations urged civic leaders to build more liveable urban centres better for public health, society and the environment"
Source: Reuters, 11/02/2020
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In ND, Money Meant To Clean Up Old Wells Goes To Frack New Ones
"North Dakota, where Covid-19 rates are surging, is redirecting the federal relief money, turning it into grants that will go directly to oil companies."
Source: InsideClimate News, 10/30/2020
Protect Nature Or Face Deadlier Pandemics Than COVID, Scientists Warn
"Pandemics will emerge more often, spread faster, cost more and kill more people than COVID-19 without bold action to halt the habitat destruction that helps viruses hop from wildlife to humans, according to a study published on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 10/30/2020
SEJ Grant Program Gives Boost to Environmental Coverage
With this issue, SEJournal launches its newest column — FEJ StoryLog. The bimonthly feature will bring you the lessons of journalists who have been able to pursue their public service reporting work through the largesse of the Fund for Environmental Journalism. Column editor Carolyn Whetzel tells the story of the grant program and its successes. And watch in coming weeks for our first grantee StoryLog, from reporter Christine Woodside.
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"North Dakota Seeks To Repurpose Coronavirus Aid For Fracking"
"North Dakota officials say they want to repurpose $16 million in federal coronavirus aid and spend it on grants to encourage fracking instead of using it to clean up abandoned oil well sites."
Source: AP, 10/23/2020
"The Oil Lobby’s COVID-19 Wish List"
"The American Petroleum Institute sent Trump’s Interior Department a lengthy list of demands in March to help it weather the effects of the coronavirus pandemic."
Source: HuffPost, 10/23/2020
"How Trump Gutted OSHA and Workplace Safety Rules"
"Trump’s attack on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has left workers vulnerable to Covid-19."
Source: NPR, 10/22/2020
"Watchdog To Investigate Allegations Of Trump Interference at CDC, FDA
"An independent government watchdog will investigate the Trump administration's alleged political interference with public health agencies, Democratic senators announced Monday."
Source: The Hill, 10/20/2020
Letting Residents Take the Lead in ‘Polluter's Paradise’
A battery of polluting industry spewing toxic pollution and a small town of residents south of Baton Rouge unbowed by their circumstance make for the ingredients of a powerful team investigative project, newly named to the top prize in the Society of Environmental Journalists’ 2020 reporting awards. Inside Story offers a look behind “Polluter’s Paradise” in a Q&A with reporter Tristan Baurick.
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Coronavirus Cases Rising in US, Sparking Worries Next Big Wave Has Begun
"U.S. coronavirus cases are rising again, driven by rapid transmission in Midwestern states and sparking fears that a forewarned wave of infections this fall and winter has begun."
Source: Washington Post, 10/14/2020
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