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  • Can Permitting Barriers Be Overcome to Accelerate Clean Energy?

    July 21, 2023 |

    The Sweaty Penguin |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Permitting is an important, and mandatory, part of new development projects in clean energy and forest management to ensure compliance with various regulations relating to the environment and land use. It also gives communities a chance to be heard during public comment. But the process is so lengthy that it can halt projects for years.

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  • How Minnesota Became the Surprising Success Story of Gun Reform

    July 05, 2023 |

    The Trace |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    By shifting their message around gun violence to frame it as a public safety issue and narrowing the focus of proposed legislation to appeal to a wide coalition, Minnesota lawmakers were able to pass a sweeping gun reform package that included a red flag law, universal backgrounds checks, and significant investments in community violence intervention programs.

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  • Insurgency spiked crime rate, but this software beats it down

    June 29, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Maiduguri

    To prevent crimes related to tricycles in Maiduguri, Nigeria, the SecureN software was created to verify the vehicles through a registration process. Once they are vetted by a state association, operators and owners are given an identity card, certificate, and QR code for riders to scan before they board. The program also collects tax money.

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  • ‘Building an Industry': Medical Cannabis Investors Focus On Lab Testing For Patient Safety

    May 17, 2023 |

    Mississippi Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    When the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act passed in 2022 and launched a new medical-marijuana program there was an unmet need for cannabis testing. To fill the gap, testing labs like Steep Hill Mississippi are emerging to ensure the medical marijuana available is safe to use.

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  • New Transport Regulations Reducing Road Crashes in Uganda

    April 28, 2023 |

    Radio Sapientia 94.4FM |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Uganda

    New, detailed driver badges, and bus route charts are reducing dangerous crashes involving buses on roads in Uganda. In an attempt to weed out incompetent bus drivers, they are now legally required to have a badge that includes information like their license number, training information, and the company they work for.

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  • California's Methane Climate Solution Rewards Dairy Gas. Other States Take a Harder Line.

    April 26, 2023 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California pays farmers to turn cow manure into biogas in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Harvested in various ways, the gas collected from the waste is used to power farms.

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  • Biological Breaks Helping Improve Fish Production on Lake Kivu

    April 14, 2023 |

    The Chronicles |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Rwanda

    The Rwandan government bans fishing on Lake Kivu during August and September for what they call a “Biological Break.” They pause fishing when the climate is best for fish reproduction and growth to ensure the fish population remains stable.

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  • India's endangered tiger population is rebounding in triumph for conservationists

    April 10, 2023 |

    CNN |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: India

    India developed 53 tiger reserves over 75,800 square kilometers as a part of a government-led conservation program, Project Tiger. Software and technology like camera traps are used to track the tiger population, which reached over 3,100 last year.

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  • How protecting trees can fight gentrification

    December 19, 2022 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Activists in Los Angeles are taking legal action to ensure black walnut trees' protections are not violated by developers to help prevent gentrification and extreme heat.

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  • Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis

    December 14, 2022 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Germany, Saarland

    Unlike the U.S., in Germany medical debt is almost nonexistent because the country limits how much patients have to pay out-of-pocket for doctor and hospital visits and medications. Affordable access to health care has made German patients less likely than Americans to die from conditions that can be treated with good access to care, such as heart attacks, diabetes, pneumonia, and some cancers.

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