"Eight Of The Top 10 Online Shows Are Spreading Climate Misinformation"
"Often backed by large advertising budgets, a new breed of climate denial is gaining popularity."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 05/15/2025
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Calif. Senator Calls On NOAA To Restore 'Billion-Dollar' Disaster Database
"Democratic Senator Adam Schiff on Tuesday urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's acting secretary to restore a database that tracked billion-dollar U.S. disasters."
Source: Reuters, 05/14/2025
"Facing Lawsuit, USDA Says It Will Restore Climate Change-Related Webpages"
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to restore climate change-related webpages to its websites after it was sued over the deletions in February. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group, argued that the deletions violated rules around citizens’ access to government information."
Source: AP, 05/14/2025
#SEJSpotlight: Anzula Jafarova, Senior Director, 24media.az; Lecturer, Baku State University
Meet SEJ member Anzula Jafarova! Anzula is a journalist, editor and lecturer specializing in international data journalism. She is the director and chief editor of 24media.az, the first platform in Azerbaijan where students from different universities collaborate to produce news content. At Baku State University, Anzula teaches journalism fundamentals, focusing on news reporting, editing and data-driven storytelling.
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"Enviros Release Climate Emissions Data After EPA Refused"
"An environmental group has released EPA’s annual accounting of greenhouse gas emissions after the agency refused to do so."
Source: E&E News, 05/12/2025
Environmentalists Will Be Seeing Trump Forces in Court — Often
The judiciary is looking to become a major environmental battleground for journalists to watch in the coming months and years, as activists confront the Trump administration over its deregulatory campaign. The new Issue Backgrounder maps out the action, explaining how key laws foster citizen suits, while numerous nonprofits are staffed up to sue. Plus, some ways to track the action.
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Environmental Justice Grants Disappear. Environmental Injustice Does Not
Decades of effort to tackle the often-intractable problems of environmental injustice, supported in recent years by billions in funding, are now facing the knife under the Trump administration. The latest TipSheet provides a thumbnail history of government initiatives and why it matters, then offers a dozen story ideas and reporting resources to tell the story in your community.
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RFK Jr. Says DARPA Is Spraying "Chemtrails" — With No Basis In Fact
"The white streaks behind planes are condensation trails made of ice, not chemicals sprayed by the Defense Department"
Source: Poynter, 05/09/2025
US Will Stop Tracking Costs Of Extreme Weather Fueled By Climate Change
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer track the cost of climate change-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example of changes to the agency and the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change."
Source: AP, 05/09/2025
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