Publication Items
March 3, 2010
03/03/2010 – The site offers some improvements over poring through the Federal Register, but it's not comprehensive, topics are too broad, and there's poor differentiation between topics and constituencies. On the plus side, visitors can comment on in-process regulations, get alerts about specific regulations, attend online public meetings, and sort in-process regs.EPA Launches New Online Regulatory Gateway
03/03/2010 – Educating your audience about the complicated new law will be a useful public service. It will also familiarize you with the people involved at your local facilities, what steps they are taking, and who you can contact if a shooting incident or other violation occurs.Firearms Now Allowed in Parks; Rules Eased in Refuges
03/03/2010 – The site includes news, studies, reports, fact sheets, data, predictions, educational tools, an events calendar, and images. The agency says it will adapt the site in response to comments, so feel free to provide feedback.New Fed Climate Change Site Consolidates Information
03/03/2010 – Many story leads are tucked away in this 196-page report: recession impacts from drops in extraction and consumption, increases in importation of key materials, insights on stories related to climate change and air pollution, and much more.USGS Minerals Report: A Tale of Economy and Environment
03/03/2010 – The Alliance for Biking and Walking's second biennial report, while mainly a recitation of statistics, is a highly useful source of leads and context for transit-related stories.Who's Biking/Walking in Your State and City?February 17, 2010
02/17/2010 – NOAA's proposal to apply quotas to individual fishing operations, rather than across an entire fishery, lands support from environmental groups, draws opposition from many US fishing operations.Catch Share: Fisheries Management Policy Controversy Heats Up
02/17/2010 – USDA's first major national survey of U.S. organic farms includes 14,540 farms and ranches that cover 4.1 million acres in 50 states.Detailed Organic Farm and Ranch Data Available
02/17/2010 – The Trust for Public Land's updated online database includes mapping and a finer level of detail, such as information at the county and parcel levels, for some but not all states as yet.Group Is Releasing Improved Conservation Lands Information
02/17/2010 – University of Virginia researchers find algae-based biofuel uses more energy and water and emits more greenhouse gases than other biofuel sources. However, algae has a high energy yield, and growing it wouldn't significantly affect food crops.Study Suggests Important Tradeoffs for Algae BiofuelFebruary 3, 2010
02/03/2010 – Environmental reporters who use databases to find and build stories have a fresh windfall, including three new datasets from EPA, plus many others relevant to the EJ beat.100s of New Federal Datasets Released, Many Environmental
