"Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Fracking 'Gag Rule'"
"A new law in Pennsylvania has doctors nervous."
Source: NPR, 05/18/2012
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"Billboard Wars, Chapter 2 (or Is It 3?)"
"Chicago commuters have all the fun. Two weeks ago, there was the Heartland Institute’s Unabomber billboard likening a belief in climate change to psychopathy. This week, those stuck in traffic missed out on one larger-than-life retort to the Heartland campaign but will get to view another."
Source: Green (NYT), 05/18/2012
SEJ Member Spotlight: Wendee Holtcamp
Houston-based freelance writer and photographer Wendee Holtcamp has covered conservation, adventure travel, environmental issues and science for magazines and websites since 1997. She offers an online writing class, teaching aspiring and established writers everything from improving one's writing through observation journaling to crafting killer queries to the business end of building a successful and lucrative freelance career. Next class starts June 2.
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TOOLBOX: Data Journalism Handbook Released
Environmental reporters with ambitions to do investigative projects using databases will find an enormously rich collection of ideas, tips, examples, and tools in the new book released by the Open Knowledge Foundation and the European Journalism Centre.
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"Advocacy: For Heartland Board, Failed Climate Attack Was a Surprise"
"The Heartland Institute's board of directors was not consulted before the group launched an explosive billboard campaign last week, resulting in the resignation of one director and dismaying others, sources said."
Source: ClimateWire, 05/14/2012
SEJ Member Spotlight: William Souder
Freelance writer William Souder has reported on a wide variety of environmental subjects and is the author of three books, including the forthcoming On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, marking the 50th anniversary of Carson's Silent Spring — and, by extension, a half century of environmentalism.
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"Toxic Roulette" -- EPA Suppressed Science at Odds With Chemical Sales
"Firemaster 550, touted as safe, is the latest in a long line of flame retardants allowed onto the market without thorough study of health risks"
Source: Chicago Tribune, 05/11/2012
"Unabomber Billboard Continues To Hurt Heartland Institute"
"With a simple statement on Tuesday, State Farm Insurance became the latest company to withdraw its support from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think-tank which claims a 'realist' position questioning that humans are responsible for climate change."
Source: LA Times, 05/10/2012
Enviros File FOIA Suit Seeking Details About White House EPA Meetings
"The Environmental Integrity Project filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Tuesday seeking details about dozens of White House meetings with interest groups to discuss Environmental Protection Agency regulations. The non-profit group, which advocates for the enforcement of environmental rules, filed the lawsuit after receiving no response from the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to a January FOIA request seeking more details on the meetings."
Source: E2 Wire, 05/10/2012
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