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C. Lewis
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Co-Editor for SEJournal Inside Story | SEJournal Social Media Editor | The Uproot Project and Society of Environmental Journalists member | EJ Today News | Formerly Great Lakes Echo

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thegreenlightblog.org
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If you’re someone who still reads for pleasure, you are a marvel. If you’re able to unplug from all the chaos of our entertainment culture and disappear into the warmth and solace of a book, that is a rare gift and I’m very glad to know you.
August 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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The Trump administration has slashed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s operations, defunded FEMA’s core program for preventing harm from major disasters and threatened to eliminate FEMA itself.
The Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
floodlightnews.org
July 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The tragedies in Altadena underscore the deadly consequences that Capital B has previously reported on: a poor emergency alert system and a system unprepared to offer vulnerable residents a path to evacuation in high-risk areas. capitalbnews.org/eaton-fire-l...
Why Were Black Altadena Residents Not Warned to Evacuate in Time?
Delayed evacuation orders and profit-driven utility failures robbed families of safety in a close-knit Black community, residents say.
capitalbnews.org
January 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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For all intensive purposes, what idioms or colloquialisms do people seem to constantly get wrong?
December 30, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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President Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) has passed. Last year, Capital B detailed the president's legacy of advancing civil rights causes throughout his political career: atlanta.capitalbnews.org/jimmy-carter/
December 30, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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One passionate, retired scientist is working to rebuild reefs, reduce the carbon imprint and educate the public about the importance of restoring the oyster population in Mobile Bay, Alabama.
In Mobile Bay, the Oysters’ Tale of Woe - Inside Climate News
Academics, conservationists, nonprofits, government agencies—and one passionate, retired scientist—are working to rebuild reefs, reduce the carbon imprint and educate the public about the importance o...
insideclimatenews.org
December 27, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 POLITICO's @eenews.bsky.social is hiring a climate finance reporter to cover how climate change is affecting the financial world. recruiting.ultipro.com/PER1013PCLL/...
recruiting.ultipro.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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What Black communities should expect from Trump’s climate policies: capitalbnews.org/trump-climat...
What Black Communities Should Expect From Trump’s Climate Policies
Here’s how the incoming administration’s policies could set back climate protections – but activists are determined to fight.
capitalbnews.org
November 27, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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More Alabamians wrote in candidates against Public Service Commission President Twinkle Cavanaugh than any other person on the ballot. See who they chose instead.
Nick Saban for Public Office? Alabamians Who Wrote in PSC Candidates Had a Certain Twinkle in Their Eye - Inside Climate News
Twinkle Cavanaugh, president of Alabama’s primary utility regulator, engendered more write-in votes against her than any other candidate on the ballot in November. Could Alabama Power’s energy prices ...
insideclimatenews.org
November 27, 2024 at 9:47 PM
NEW: #SEJournal is introducing a new, weekly report from now to Inauguration Day 2025 to track the incoming #Trump administration as it prepares to reshape U.S. #environmental and #energy policy. Check out #SEJournalEJTransitionWatch now: www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social
EJ TransitionWatch
Environmental Journalism TransitionWatch is a new, limited-run weekly report from SEJournal, published through Inauguration Day 2025. It will track the incoming Trump administration as it prepares to ...
www.sej.org
November 22, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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JUST IN: Former GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz is withdrawing from consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general. cnn.it/4fEA1IY
November 21, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Jim and Pam, a pair of bonded bald eagles, were displaced by a land developer near Auburn University over the weekend. Federal officials are investigating the incident.
War on Eagles? In Auburn, Federal Officials Investigate the Taking of a Bald Eagles’ Nest They Permitted - Inside Climate News
Hughston Homes, a land developer, displaced the eagles, Jim and Pam, cutting down the tree where their nest had been built. Auburn residents have united in their outrage, demanding answers and account...
insideclimatenews.org
November 20, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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In the wake of Hurricane Helene, abortion access is even more scarce in the US South. Uprooter @jkutzie.bsky.social for @19thnews.bsky.social

19thnews.org/2024/10/hurr...
Hurricane Helene made abortion access in the South even harder
Closed clinics, shipping delays and impassable roads have impacted the already fragile reproductive health ecosystem in the region.
19thnews.org
November 20, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Looking forward to the book @davidpakman.bsky.social #echomachine2025
November 20, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Don’t forget to register for Wednesday’s #SEJWebinar! www.sej.org/calendar/sej...
November 18, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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"An unidentified hacker has reportedly gained access to a computer file shared in a secure link among lawyers whose clients have given damaging testimony related to Matt Gaetz"
Hacker Is Said to Have Gained Access to File With Damaging Testimony About Gaetz
The computer file is said to contain testimony from the woman who said she had sex with Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be attorney general, when she was 17.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 The Connecticut Mirror is hiring an Environment and Energy Reporter to cover the complex environmental and energy sectors and the challenges Connecticut faces with respect to climate change. www.journalismjobs.com/1688174-envi...
JournalismJobs.com - Job Listing - Environment and Energy Reporter
JournalismJobs.com has journalism and media job listings with digital media, newspapers, tv stations, radio stations, magazines, nonprofits, and academia.
www.journalismjobs.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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They say your first 50,000 is the hardest, and that seems to be true
November 19, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Inside Port-au-Prince, Haiti: the capital where gangs have taken over – podcast
Inside Port-au-Prince, Haiti: the capital where gangs have taken over – podcast
Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips reports from Haiti on the struggles of the government to reassert its authority over the capital, Port-au-Prince, and on the ordinary Haitians caught up in the violence When the Guardian’s Latin America…
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November 19, 2024 at 3:13 AM
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The elusive deep-water oarfish – considered to be a harbinger of bad news – was spotted yet again on the shores of Encinitas, California. It was the state’s third spotting of the species in the last three months, and only the 22nd over the past century.
The ‘doomsday fish’ returns to California shores for the second time this year. Scientists don’t know why. | CNN
Considered to be the origin of the sea serpent tale, giant oarfish are a species yet to be largely researched by scientists.
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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Public libraries are a really beautiful aspect of our civic life.

As I sit here working in my community library, I feel these operate according to the norms of "public goods" that would apply elsewhere, too.

So if we can agree our libraries should exist, maybe other public goods should too...
November 18, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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Instagram is all videos now and I miss the days when my photography had a fighting chance of being seen. So here’s an Oregon waterfall from a few years ago.
November 15, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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Donald Trump is now (1) below 50% popular vote and (2) has a margin of popular vote victory roughly HALF of Hillary's victory in 2016. They believe the left has to lay down and shut up because of this "landslide" victory.
November 16, 2024 at 3:28 PM