"During The Most Important Year For Climate News, TV Coverage Fell"
"A report by Media Matters for America reveals that the media are failing to inform the American public on the most important issue of our time".
Source: Guardian, 03/07/2016
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Environmental Photog Braasch Dies Snorkeling At Great Barrier Reef
"Award-winning American environmental photographer Gary Braasch died on Monday while snorkeling at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef."
Source: Reuters, 03/07/2016
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The availability of government data has soared over the last decade — offering a huge opportunity for watchdog journalists to find stories that advance the public interest. The environmental beat is the Saudi Arabia of data (yes, that means vast, rich, accessible, and untapped reserves).
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Trump Hopes To Use Libel Laws To Get at Journalists
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is promising to toughen libel laws to get back at news media who "write purposely negative and horrible and false articles." Especially those that criticize him. Photo: By Marc Nozell (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0].
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House OKs Lands Bill with Photo Fees, Permits — Now It's Up to Senate
The Senate Energy Committee last November approved a different version of the bill which seems to include an exemption from fees and permits for "news gathering." But whether it will pass on the floor or get reconciled with the House bill in an election year is unknown.
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USDA Rejects Scientist's Claim It Tried To Hide His Pesticide Research
"Federal officials have rejected a complaint by an entomologist who charged that the government has tried to suppress negative research findings about a widely used pesticide, in a complex case involving monarch butterflies, scientific freedom and the safety of the nation’s food supply."
Source: Guardian, 03/01/2016
Oregon Didn't Tell Portland Schools About Alarming Lead Soil Readings
"Two state agencies leading Oregon's emergency response to toxic air pollution concerns in Portland have known for a month that a soil test at Cleveland High School found high levels of arsenic and lead contamination. Yet neither the Oregon Health Authority nor the Department of Environmental Quality have shared the soil result with Portland Public Schools, which instead learned about it Friday from The Oregonian/OregonLive."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 02/29/2016
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