"Alabama Community Alleges Race Bias Over Toxic Landfill Site"
"Coal ash from earlier environmental disaster is causing health concerns for poor African-American residents."
Source: Aljazeera America, 08/22/2014
People & Population
"Latino Group Sides With EPA on Climate Rule"
"A board member at a major Latino environmental group joined Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Gina McCarthy in promoting the agency’s rule to limit carbon emissions from power plants."
Source: The Hill, 08/20/2014
"EPA to Require Air Pollution Measurements in Black Communities"
"WASHINGTON -- For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency may require oil refineries to regularly measure the air quality at their perimeters. These fence line measurements will give surrounding communities – largely low-income communities of color – data on the level of pollution they are exposed to each day."
Source: NNPA, 08/20/2014
"EPA: Low-Key Staffer Jumps Into Political Hot Seat"
"Lisa Feldt wasn't the obvious candidate to replace Bob Perciasepe as U.S. EPA's second in command."
Source: Greenwire, 08/19/2014
"Navajos Must Drive Miles To Get Drinking Water"
After uranium mining poisoned their wells, thousands of Navajos must drive long miles to get water that is safe to drink.
Source: Arizona Republic, 08/11/2014
SEJournal Summer 2014, Vol. 24 No. 2
In this issue: Covering the environment, health fallout of unexploded ordnance; special report on risk and resilience/lessons from Louisiana on the realities of coastal iving; freelancers and fellowships, a path for growth; utilizing the National Weather Service to track storm intensity; tapping the environmental journalism 'power grid'; book reviews; and classroom research on long-term relevance of front-page stories.
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"Green Groups Too White And Too Male Compared To Other Sectors: Report"
"Survey of 300 US environmental groups show lower percentage of jobs held by ethnic minorities than in science and engineering"
Source: Guardian, 07/31/2014
Fresh Secret Reports from the Congressional Research Service
Here are some recent explainers of interest to environmental journalists from the CRS, which Congress does not allow to be released to the taxpaying public who paid for them. The WatchDog thanks those who leaked them and the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy for publishing them.
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What the Public Isn't Allowed To Know Could Kill You
The federal government has not only done very little to protect the public from the mass-casualty threats chemical facilities present to neighboring communities, they've focused efforts on keeping the public from knowing about those threats or the government's own failures to keep them safe. Now the U.S. EPA has signaled that it is about to revise a key rule governing chemical facility safety and security.
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Mercury Survivors Neglected By Govt, Grassy Narrows First Nation Claims
"A northwestern Ontario First Nation has released a five-year-old report confirming the community suffers ongoing effects from mercury poisoning, but it says the government has never acted on the findings."
Source: CBC News, 07/30/2014
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