Molly Peterson
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Nobody wanted to talk about this...at first. Then they did. Rachel Becker gets below the surface on this one to talk to people about an invasive species whose costs are still climbing.
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SEJ — Society of Environmental Journalists
4 months ago
That’s a wrap on
#20CongressoAbraji
! SEJ board members
@bykarlamendes.bsky.social
, Michael Kodas,
@bobbymagill.bsky.social
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@mollypeterson.bsky.social
brought global perspectives to São Paulo and connected with attendees, Brazilian SEJ members. Stay tuned for their takeaways and a webinar!
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Marisa Kabas
6 months ago
ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
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EJ Today News
7 months ago
‘Secret Deal’ in California Would Weaken Regulations for Oil Refineries
#news
#environment
Jim Morris and
@mollypeterson.bsky.social
report for
@pubhealthwatch.bsky.social
EJ Today Headlines:
www.sej.org/headlines/list
publichealthwatch.org/2025/04/22/s...
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‘Secret Deal’ in California Would Weaken Regulations for Oil Refineries - Public Health Watch
Steelworkers, other advocates say proposed changes would put workers and communities at risk
https://publichealthwatch.org/2025/04/22/secret-deal-in-california-would-weaken-regulations-for-oil-refineries/
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Sammy Roth
7 months ago
‘Secret Deal’ in California Would Weaken Regulations for Oil Refineries
publichealthwatch.org/2025/04/22/s...
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‘Secret Deal’ in California Would Weaken Regulations for Oil Refineries - Public Health Watch
Steelworkers, other advocates say proposed changes would put workers and communities at risk
https://publichealthwatch.org/2025/04/22/secret-deal-in-california-would-weaken-regulations-for-oil-refineries/
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AJMeszaros
8 months ago
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provides a breath-taking description of how systemic failures in CA's hazardous waste management program works with forces arrayed to protect bad actors to harm real people. This system broken & the harms are real.
publichealthwatch.org/2025/03/18/c...
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California Falls Short in Enforcing Regulations for the Metal Shredding Industry - Public Health Watch
After decades of lax oversight, new efforts are underway to protect communities from toxic emissions without putting the industry out of business.
https://publichealthwatch.org/2025/03/18/california-metal-shredding-lead-waste/
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"[O]n Feb. 5, Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old former college student who goes by the moniker “Big Balls” online and now works for Musk, was given a FEMA badge." Californians, including some wealthy and private ones, are in FEMA's records.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Elon Musk’s agents have gained access to FEMA’s sensitive disaster data
Representatives from Elon Musk’s government efficiency task force were said to be examining data on FEMA grants, according to staff members.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/07/musk-trump-fema-doge/
9 months ago
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Rachael Myrow
10 months ago
"We still have time to fail each other. But we still have time to try not to."
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Disasters Are Exactly the Time for Urban Planning
That first Tuesday in January, well south of the fires, wind put out just about every third streetlight on Figueroa in northeast LA. Nobody…
https://medium.com/@mollypeterson_la/disasters-are-exactly-the-time-for-urban-planning-382e4be660ae
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Under what circumstances has LAFD required residential properties to have hydrants?
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Fire hydrants ran dry as Pacific Palisades burned. L.A. city officials blame 'tremendous demand'
Firefighters battling the Palisades fire dealt with hydrants that had little to no water flowing out. By 3 a.m. Wednesday, all hydrants 'went dry,' an LADWP official says.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-08/lack-of-water-from-hydrants-in-palisades-fire-is-hampering-firefighters-caruso-says
10 months ago
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Rick Caruso, former member of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners, who authorize and help prioritize infrastructure updates
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Not in an evac area, woke up in the night because it smelled like a campfire inside. My house has well-sealed windows but apparently drafty doors, so I blocked those up and doubled up on air purifiers. Outdoor AQIs are 320-400ish for PM 2.5 and PM 10.
10 months ago
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The Pasadena Park Wellness Center had to evacuate patients from the
#EatonFire
yesterday, dozens in wheelchairs, some with only surgical masks on, family members around them. It's a risk we've known about.
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Seniors evacuated from nursing homes due to Eaton Fire near Altadena
YouTube video by NBCLA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuTOmUlgFoM
10 months ago
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way too many inexperienced reporters from national outlets on tv without masks on, in and around the Palisades, not loving the health risks out there
10 months ago
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“The Guild has secured strong ethics protections for our members, including the right to withhold one’s byline, and we will firmly guard against any effort to improperly or unfairly alter our reporting.”
latguild.com/news/2024/12...
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LAT Guild statement: Our commitment to journalistic integrity — L.A. Times Guild - Los Angeles Times Guild
Journalists of the Los Angeles Times are committed to shining a light on injustice, exposing wrongdoing, and seeking the facts. We speak truth to power, regardless of which party is in power.
https://latguild.com/news/2024/12/5/lat-guild-statement-our-commitment-to-journalistic-integrity
11 months ago
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how is los angeles already declaring unlawful assembly
about 1 year ago
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kind of funny that in their effort to paint NPR as being ignorant of Wuhan lab leaks, they play the intro to the story about Wuhan lab leaks
over 1 year ago
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if theres any such thing as a climate friendly monarch this ain’t it, did he offset the costs of jetting out of town with his side squeeze, change out the light bulbs in the castle
almost 2 years ago
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Lisa Pickoff-White
about 2 years ago
Reporters, interested in clean air?
@mollypeterson.bsky.social
and Dillon Bergin will explain how to identify pollution erased from the regulatory record near you using data collected from all 10 EPA regions, state and local governments.
#foia
www.sej.org/calendar/sej...
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SEJ Webinar: Mining Public Records To Unearth Air Pollution
In this SEJ webinar, join California Newsroom reporter Molly Peterson and MuckRock data reporter Dillon Bergin to learn how to turn a question into an effective public records request; find the record...
https://www.sej.org/calendar/sej-webinar-mining-public-records-unearth-air-pollution
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tl;dr jann wenner interview poetry
about 2 years ago
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“The case ought to provoke real introspection among liberals in particular. The Democratic mayor of Atlanta is among Cop City’s principal defenders…How distant, now, the pledges of reform, the public sympathy, the national Democrats in kente cloth. Words are easy.”
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The Cop City Indictment Prosecutes Dissent
Georgia uses RICO to tar activists as dangerous anarchists.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/the-cop-city-indictment-prosecutes-dissent.html
about 2 years ago
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