Publication Items

Controversial Newspaper Campaign Takes on Climate ‘Fatalism’ [1]

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 [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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FOIA'd E-Mails Open Window on GMO Lobbying by Academics [8]

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 [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [10]
Economy & Business [4]
Food [11]
Technology [12]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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"Greening Health Care: How Hospitals Can Heal the Planet" [13]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Health [15]
Health [16]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Are Health Warnings on Soda Unconstitutional? Industry Says Yes [17]

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 [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Consumer [18]
Economy & Business [4]
Health [16]
Region:
California [19]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Disclosure of Research Funding Key Issue for Academics, Journos [20]

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 [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Science [21]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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New Congressional Research Service Reports for Environmental Journos [22]

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 [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Region:
Asia [26]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about New Congressional Research Service Reports for Environmental Journos [22]
"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" [27]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [18]
Economy & Business [4]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Need to Know? Eight Reports from the Congressional Research Service [28]

Congress does not release reports done by the Congressional Research Service to the public, even though taxpayers fund them. Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project, you can read them anyway.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [29]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Natural Resources [30]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [24]
Science [21]
Technology [12]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [31]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Need to Know? Eight Reports from the Congressional Research Service [28]
Freelancers as Founders: Potential, Pitfalls of Digital Journalism Startups [32]

Writer/editor Amy Westervelt relates lessons learned by herself and her freelance colleagues on the road to financial stability for their reporting endeavour, Climate Confidential. Photo: Westervelt speaks at the Nov 13, 2014, “Food Fight” in Brooklyn. Credit: Mariya Pylayev, Climate Nexus.

SEJ Publication Types:
Freelance Files [33]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [4]
Journalism & Media [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Ohio Utilities Seek To Keep Reasons for Public "Bailout" Secret from Public [34]

Three major electric utilities want the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to make ratepayers pay for aging and unprofitable coal and nuclear generation plants in that state. But the ratepayers — the utilities claim — aren't entitled to know whether they might be ripped off.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Consumer [18]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [24]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [35]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Ohio Utilities Seek To Keep Reasons for Public "Bailout" Secret from Public [34]

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