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DEADLINE: Frontline's Environmental Reportage

The Banff Centre's Frontline program series trains and supports writers who are exploring, testing, witnessing and reporting back on some of the most current and pressing issues of our time. This year’s program, Apr 11-23, 2016, is on environmental reportage. Apply by Jan 27.

She’s Braved Rough Seas, Space Walks -- and Now Climate Change Deniers

"Kathryn Sullivan has helped U.S. Navy sailors navigate — literally — through rough seas as an oceanographer in the Navy Reserves. As a NASA astronaut, she’s walked in space, the first American woman to step outside a spacecraft, 140 miles above Earth. These challenges are a world apart from what she’s now confronting in Washington as she leads an agency of federal scientists in the crosshairs of a powerful member of Congress."

Source: Wash Post, 12/15/2015

"Aviation Emissions Deal Expected Next Year"

"A deal on limiting carbon dioxide emissions from aviation will likely be reached next year, no matter the outcome of this week's climate change talks in Paris, a senior official from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Thursday."

Source: Reuters, 12/15/2015

"USDA Finalizes Record Keeping Rule for Ground Beef"

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) finalized a new rule Monday that will require all producers of raw ground beef to keep records of where the meat has come from."

Source: The Hill, 12/15/2015

How US Negotiators Ensured Paris Climate Deal Was Republican-Proof

U.S. diplomats spent much effort, time, and political capital engineering a Paris climate agreement that could not be derailed by Congressional Republicans.

Source: Guardian, 12/15/2015

"Feds Acknowledge Radiation, Chemicals Likely Killed 396 in Idaho"

"Jim Delmore came to the lab he ran at the Idaho National Laboratory on Nov. 13, 1972, to find it roped off from entry because of a plutonium contamination."

Source: Idaho Statesman, 12/15/2015

"AP Interview: Fukushima Chief Says 'No Textbook' for Cleanup"

"The man leading the daunting task of dealing with the Fukushima nuclear plant that sank into meltdowns in northeastern Japan warns with surprising candor: Nothing can be promised."

Source: AP, 12/15/2015

"The Siege of Miami"

"As temperatures climb, so, too, will sea levels."

Source: New Yorker, 12/15/2015

"E.P.A. Broke Law With Social Media Push for Water Rule, Auditor Finds"

"The Environmental Protection Agency engaged in 'covert propaganda' and violated federal law when it blitzed social media to urge the public to back an Obama administration rule intended to better protect the nation’s streams and surface waters, congressional auditors have concluded."

Source: NY Times, 12/15/2015

"Paris Climate Pact Sinks Coal Stocks, Lifts Renewable Energy"

"A landmark deal to curb global warming dented shares of fossil fuel companies and lifted renewable energy stocks on Monday, although some price swings were muted by the non-binding nature of the pact."

Source: Reuters, 12/15/2015

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