Publication Items

Where's That Meat From? One Problem with Trade Treaties [1]

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 [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Food [5]
Health [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Read the Reports Congress Doesn't Want You To Read [9]

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 [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [3]
Chemicals [10]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Government [12]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Military [13]
Transportation [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Between the Lines: Iconic Author, Former Farmer, Plants Seeds for a ‘More Attractive’ World [16]

In this "Between the Lines" excerpt from the latest issue of SEJournal, book editor Tom Henry interviews Earth Policy Institute's Lester Brown, recipient of 25 honorary degrees and author of 54 books (although, amazingly, he never learned to type).

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [18]
Climate Change [19]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Science [20]
Water & Oceans [15]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Controversial Newspaper Campaign Takes on Climate ‘Fatalism’ [21]

The Guardian's James Randerson explains how his newspaper came to launch its 'Keep it in the Ground' campaign, backing the global fossil fuel divestment movement — and how, rather than constraining the paper journalistically, the project provided a connection to readers that goes far beyond a click on a website.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [22]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [19]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Journalism & Media [23]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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FOIA'd E-Mails Open Window on GMO Lobbying by Academics [24]

Investigative reporting in the environmental area depends on the Freedom of Information Act. The latest exposé on GMO lobbying in the New York Times by double-Pulitzer-winner Eric Lipton is a good example.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Food [5]
Technology [25]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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"Greening Health Care: How Hospitals Can Heal the Planet" [26]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Health [27]
Health [6]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Are Health Warnings on Soda Unconstitutional? Industry Says Yes [28]

The American Beverage Association, California State Outdoor Advertising Association and California Retailers Association sued San Francisco for requiring health warnings on advertisements for certain sugary beverages when posted on city property, saying it violates their First Amendment rights.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Consumer [29]
Economy & Business [4]
Health [6]
Region:
California [30]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Disclosure of Research Funding Key Issue for Academics, Journos [31]

The issue re-ignited recently when astrophysicist and climate change denier Willie Soon, affiliated with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, was revealed to have taken funding — but not disclosed it — from fossil fuel interests. Now the Smithsonian Institution has said it will tighten its guidelines for disclosure of funding by its researchers.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [19]
Economy & Business [4]
Science [20]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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New Congressional Research Service Reports for Environmental Journos [32]

Congress, you may remember, has exempted itself from the requirements for open government — and that included a ban on publishing taxpayer-funded explainers by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists, you can read them anyway.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region:
Asia [34]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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"Carbon Shock: A Tale of Risk and Calculus on the Front Lines of the Disrupted Global Economy — How Carbon Is Changing the Cost of Everything" [35]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [19]
Consumer [29]
Economy & Business [4]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about "Carbon Shock: A Tale of Risk and Calculus on the Front Lines of the Disrupted Global Economy — How Carbon Is Changing the Cost of Everything" [35]

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