"How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists"
"Subpoenaed emails reveal the ways fossil-fuel corporations try to influence the media—and why they often succeed."
Source: Drilled, 05/30/2024
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"EPA Union Deal to Shield Science From Politics as Election Looms"
"The EPA’s biggest union said on Wednesday it had ratified a new contract with the agency, winning scientific integrity protections for the first time."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/30/2024
"EPA Accused Of ‘Egregious’ Misconduct In PFAS Testing Of Pesticides"
"Documents obtained from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicate the agency may have presented false information to the public about testing for harmful contaminants in pesticides, according to allegations being made by a watchdog group and a former EPA research fellow."
Source: Guardian, 05/29/2024
‘Exvangelicals’ Memoir Explores Faith-Science Gap
With her new memoir, “The Exvangelicals,” NPR correspondent Sarah McCammon, a one-time, award-winning environmental reporter, may not have written a book directly about environmental issues. Instead, writes BookShelf editor Tom Henry, her highly personal story about religion, science and betrayal offers an important, if indirect, message to those on the environment beat seeking to understand the faith community. Read his review.
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New PFAS Drinking Water Rule Promises Local Stories
New federal regulations governing a group of “forever chemicals” under the Safe Drinking Water Act — a rule years in the making — have important implications for local drinking water supplies and, per the latest TipSheet, local environment reporting. A look at the problem with PFAS, the complicated route to its regulation and more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources.
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"Top Brands Buy Amazon Carbon Credits From Suspected Timber Laundering Scam"
"An analysis of two carbon credit projects in the Brazilian Amazon has found that they may be connected to illegal timber laundering."
Source: Mongabay, 05/23/2024
"Democrats Refer Big Oil Investigation To Justice Department"
"Two congressional Democrats are asking the Justice Department to pick up where they’ve left off in a yearslong investigation into an alleged climate misinformation campaign perpetuated over decades by Big Oil."
Source: E&E News, 05/23/2024
UK: "Week of Protests Over Equinor’s Media Sponsorship Greenwashing"
"Campaigners likened the fossil fuel company’s patronage of climate events to letting an “arsonist sponsor a fire safety conference”."
Source: DeSmog, 05/21/2024
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