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Read the Secret TTIP Trade Treaty Here [1]

The draft Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) treaty is still being kept secret from the hundreds of millions of people whom it will affect. It matters for environmental journalists as trade treaties often set up mechanisms for corporations to negate the environmental laws of signatory countries. Image: WikiLeaks. [2]

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WatchDog TipSheet [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
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Public [6]
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Farm News Fires Cartoonist for Lampooning Ag Firm CEOs' Pay [7]

The Iowa-based publication Farm News has fired an editorial cartoonist who had contributed to the publication for 21 years. His crime: pointing out that the CEOs of Monsanto, Dupont Pioneer and John Deere made far more than average farmers.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Economy & Business [4]
Food [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Region:
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [11]
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Public [6]
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"Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge" [12]

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BookShelf [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [14]
Climate Change [15]
Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Politics [16]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [18]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [19]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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"Beyond Fair Trade: How One Small Coffee Company Helped Transform a Hillside Village In Thailand" [20]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Economy & Business [4]
Region:
Asia [21]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Nine Years After Request for FEMA Katrina Records: Nothing [22]

The Project on Government Oversight FOIA'd FEMA/DHS in 2006 for documents that might reveal hanky-panky with billions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina recovery contracts. In December 2015, DHS finally wrote POGO to say that disclosing the records would constitute an "unwarranted invasion of privacy."

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [23]
Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Politics [16]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Memo to Energy, Business, Science and Health Reporters [25]

Fellow Journalists, we have a lot in common. We’ve read many of your stories on issues surrounding energy, business, science and health. We couldn’t help noticing a common link in so many of your stories: The environment. Those of us at the Society of Environmental Journalists think we are a very good fit for you. Read all the reasons why, by board president Jeff Burnside in the new issue of SEJournal.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Health [28]
Journalism & Media [10]
Science [29]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Congressional Research Service Reports of Use to Environmental Journos [30]

The reports aren't released to the taxpayers who funded them but the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project publishes leaked copies. Here are 17 of the latest, from air to water, food to fuel, and much more.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Air [31]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Food [9]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Water & Oceans [32]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Congressional Research Service Reports of Use to Environmental Journos [30]
EPA Grants and Contracts Databases Offer Gumshoes Eye on Agency [33]

Grants and contracts are a key way that the agency extends the reach of its work into the world beyond agency offices. They may include an engineering project to clean up a Superfund site, an environmental education and outreach program, snow-plowing agency parking lots, expert studies, and computer services.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [4]
Government [34]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Where's That Meat From? One Problem with Trade Treaties [35]

Do consumers have a right to know where their food comes from? What if there is a federal law decreeing that they have that right? Not anymore. None of that matters. International trade treaties — nowadays often negotiated in secret — trump United States law aimed at protecting consumers.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Economy & Business [4]
Food [9]
Health [28]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Read the Reports Congress Doesn't Want You To Read [36]

Here are some reports of possible interest to environmental journalists from the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Congress does not release them to the public, but the Union of Concerned Scientists' Government Secrecy Project does.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Chemicals [37]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Government [34]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Military [38]
Transportation [39]
Water & Oceans [32]
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Public [6]
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