90.7 WMFE BEGINS COLLABORATION WITH INSIDECLIMATE NEWS
FIRST PROJECT, CAUGHT OFF GUARD, EXPLORES PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SOUTHEAST
ORLANDO – 90.7 WMFE has begun an ongoing collaboration with InsideClimate News, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, non-profit, non-partisan news organization dedicated to covering climate change, energy and the environment.
WMFE environmental reporter Amy Green is a part of ICN's new project Caught Off Guard: The Southeast Struggles with Climate Change, which features Southeast reporters' stories on the progress and problems their communities face related to climate change. Journalists from nine newsrooms found communities struggling with funding or a lack of political will, and an urgent need for technological breakthroughs to meet global warming head-on.
Green's story, Orlando Aims High With Emissions Cuts, Despite Uncertain Path, focuses on the city of Orlando’s promise to achieve 100% clean energy by 2050.
"As its population grows, the Southeast region is facing some of the biggest global warming threats in the United States. And it's having a hard time rising to that challenge," ICN Southeast reporter James Bruggers wrote. "We’re proud to bring you these stories, and proud of our work to revive and strengthen local environmental journalism."
WMFE is part of the Southeast hub of ICN’s national environmental reporting network. The other members are fellow Florida station WJCT Public Media in Jacksonville, Raleigh News and Observer, West Virginia Public Broadcasting/Ohio Valley Resource, The Post and Courier, The State, BirminghamWatch, Georgia Public Broadcasting and WFAE.
WMFE is also part of the Florida Climate Reporting Network, a multi-newsroom initiative founded by the Miami Herald, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, The Palm Beach Post, the Orlando Sentinel, WLRN Public Media and the Tampa Bay Times to report about climate change.
Green shared her Orlando emissions story with the Florida network, and the Orlando Sentinel published it in their print edition on Jan. 27.
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