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Nevada: No 2020 Dem Wants To Store Nuclear Waste Under Yucca Mountain

"There has been a lot of head-butting in Nevada over unions, health care and civility in politics ahead of the Democratic caucuses on Saturday.

But the White House hopefuls vying for votes in the early caucus state have shown a rare bit of unity over what may be the biggest energy and environmental issue in Nevada.

Every major candidate for president has joined Nevada's crusade to stop the completion of a long-delayed nuclear waste storage site under Yucca Mountain some 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Source: Washington Post, 02/19/2020

Nearly Half of U.S. States Working on PFAS Rules as EPA Drags Feet

"More states are stepping up to protect people from drinking water contaminated with “forever chemicals” in the absence of federal enforcement."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 02/19/2020

DEADLINE: Brown Institute Magic Grants

The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation annually provides year-long funding awards of up to $150,000 ($300,000 for teams with members of both the Columbia and Stanford communities). Plus, access to an advisory and mentoring group, and an alumni network. Deadline: Apr 3, 2025.

Green Maritime Forum

The third annual Green Maritime Forum in Hamburg, Germany will gather experts and specialists from shipowner companies, ports, maritime associations and service companies to discuss adopting the Maritime Industry’s most relevant subjects including developing decarbonisation strategies, clean technology and fuels’ development, as well as future opportunities to make the industry carbon neutral.

Environmental Books by SEJ Members (2018)

Are you an SEJ member who's authored, co-authored or edited a non-fiction or fiction environmental book (published in 2018) you'd like included on this page? Documentaries are also welcome. Please send the following to web content manager Cindy MacDonald:

"Literature: Meet Cli-Fi. It's Dark, It's Gloomy — And It Might Help"

"The southern United States disappeared under rising waters and sudden storms pummel the coast of the Mississippi Sea. New Orleans is gone; so is Florida. Oil is outlawed, and the nation is plunged into a second civil war marked by disease and desperate refugees. ... This is cli-fi."

Source: ClimateWire, 02/18/2020

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Nevada: No 2020 Dem Wants To Store Nuclear Waste Under Yucca Mountain

Nearly Half of U.S. States Working on PFAS Rules as EPA Drags Feet

DEADLINE: Brown Institute Magic Grants

Green Maritime Forum

Environmental Books by SEJ Members (2018)

"Literature: Meet Cli-Fi. It's Dark, It's Gloomy — And It Might Help"

"Pompeo Pledges $1 Billion in US Support For European Energy Initiative"

"GOP Climate Plan Faces Pushback — From Republicans

"Groups Challenge Louisiana Permits For Plastics Plant"

"EPA Orders Hazardous Waste Probe At Shuttered Indiana Site"

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