This story was originally published by theGuardian
as part of their two-year series, This Land is Your Land, examining the threats facing America’s public lands, with support from the Society of Environmental Journalists, and is republished by permission.
Through the overhead lights from his car, the security guard saw that Stephen Vest was injured
. The dark-haired 30-year-old’s left arm appeared to be bleeding as he walked out of the park just before 8 p.m. on a warm night last October.
“What’s wrong? What happened? What can I do to help?” the guard asked Vest from his car.
By Great Lakes Echo
Great Lakes Echo has joined a nationwide collaborative to provide better and more local reporting of climate change.
The Local Media Association selected the 12-year-old regional news service as one of 22 leading outlets in the Covering Climate Collaborative.
Echo is a project of Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.
It is one of two members of the collaborative where university students are the key journalists.
“Echo is founded on the idea that the best way to teach journalism is to do it,” said David Poulson, the editor and founder of Great Lakes Echo. “We are eager to extend that mission and even more eager to better serve our region with the support and training provided by the Local Media Association.”
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Jeremy Deaton
Jeremy Deaton
is the associate editorial director of Nexus Media, where he covers climate, energy, science, and technology. His work has appeared in outlets such as HuffPost, Quartz, Fast Company, Popular Science, Discover Magazine, Scientific American, Teen Vogue, Mother Jones, Bloomberg CityLab, NBC News and The Washington Post. Jeremy belongs to the Society of Environmental Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
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Published: 4/21/2021 6:19:25 AM
Fifty-one years after the first Earth Day the four-state Connecticut River remains prisoner to an ecosystem-crippling license the Federal Power Commission issued in Massachusetts for the Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Project (NMPS) in 1968. Finished in 1972 and built to run off the massive overproduction of electricity from the new Vermont Yankee nuclear plant NMPS began sucking up huge, hours-long inhalations of the Connecticut’s flow. Everything pulled into its giant tunnels perished, from tiny fish eggs to 3-foot American eels. It would be decades before a hint of the scale of its annual carnage would be understood.