Water & Oceans

"Trump Will Push To Get Fluoride Out Of Drinking Water, RFK Jr. Says"

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged Saturday that a future Trump administration would seek to remove fluoride from drinking water as a Day 1 goal, reversing a decades-old intervention widely credited for boosting public health."

Source: Washington Post, 11/04/2024

"London Protesters Demand Water Companies Clean Up Sewage-Tainted Rivers"

"Holding signs with slogans including “stop the plop” and “species not feces,” thousands of people marched in London on Sunday to demand a cleanup of Britain’s sewage-clogged waterways."

Source: AP, 11/04/2024

"Trump 2.0 Would Bring Whiplash To Interior Department"

"Former President Donald Trump has promised on the campaign trail to take a sledgehammer to the Biden administration’s energy and environmental policies. That means the Interior Department — a vast agency that oversees public lands, the national parks, Western water conservation and endangered species protections — is sure to witness drastic policy shifts if Trump reclaims the White House in January."

Source: E&E News, 11/04/2024
November 14, 2024

Making Sustainable Seafood Choices Irresistible: Closing the Values-Action Gap

This Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and GlobeScan webinar will draw on insights from the world’s largest seafood consumer survey, examining what drives the growing wave of eco-consciousness and explore why, despite their best intentions, consumers often struggle to follow through on sustainable choices. 10am PT / 1pm ET.

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November 21, 2024

Mongabay Webinar: How to Cover RFMOs (Regional Fisheries Management Orgs)

This webinar will focus on how journalists can cover regional fisheries management organizations, a group of over a dozen international bodies that manage fish stocks and fishing activity in the world's oceans. 12pm UTC // 7am EST.

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Prize Winner Spurs Policy Change on Illinois PFAS Contamination

When Illinois downplayed the results of long-delayed PFAS testing in the state’s public water supply, Chicago Tribune reporter Michael Hawthorne revisited a story he had first covered two decades before. His investigation uncovered dangerous practices threatening public health, won him accolades and moved the needle on state policy. How he went about it, in the new Inside Story Q&A.

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"Climate Change Worsened Disasters That Caused Half A Million Deaths: Report"

"The 10 deadliest extreme weather events of the previous two decades, which contributed to some 570,000 deaths, were all intensified by human-caused climate change, according to a new study from World Weather Attribution."

Source: The Hill, 11/01/2024

Slow Firefighting, Costlier Ag Likely If Trump Dismantles NOAA: Experts

"Many industries rely on the agency’s weather and climate data. Even a small gap in its operations could raise food prices and drastically disrupt how people navigate the West’s changing climate."

Source: Inside Climate News, 11/01/2024

"Disaster Misinformation Is Part of the US Political Landscape Now"

"In September 2018, I was in North Carolina riding out Hurricane Florence and reporting on its impacts. For a few days, I embedded with a FEMA rescue team stationed at Hope Mills Recreation Center near Fayetteville, accompanying emergency responders as they evacuated a senior center in the middle of the night and touring flooded neighborhoods by day."

Source: Bloomberg, 10/31/2024

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