Publication Items

Concern Resurfaces for Drinking Water and Food Contaminant [1]

In one of many last-minute actions, the Bush administration delayed a decision on a drinking water standard for the contaminant perchlorate (used in rocket fuel, explosives, fireworks, and many other industrial products, and also occurs naturally), but issued a temporary advisory recommendation. This has immediate implications for at least 31 large US utilities, and perhaps hundreds more.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Food [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Government [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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SEJournal Spring 2000, Vol. 10 No. 1 [9]

In this issue: Smog lingers over Houston–media muddle Bush's record as air progress slows; Green space may calm and cool us; Journalists probe environmental justice issues; Land use in the West; The award-winning beryllium story; Montana mine's toxic legacy; Tracking campaign cash; What was behind EPA blackout? and more. Download the PDF here.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [11]
Chemicals [3]
Government [6]
Natural Resources [12]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Science Survey: Epigenetics...Understanding Chemicals' Newly Recognized Future Effects [13]

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Journalism & Media [15]
Science [16]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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CA PESTICIDE SPRAYING PITS TRADE SECRETS AGAINST RIGHT TO KNOW [17]

California is trying to eradicate the brown apple moth along the state's central coast by aerial spraying of a pheromone-based pesticide intended to interfere with the insect's natural reproductive cycle. Some residents want to know what's being sprayed on them.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Region:
California [19]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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National Response Center Changes Leak Report Policy [20]

The National Response Center has changed its policy on releasing chemical accident reports, making it much harder for journalists to gather crucial information about hazardous materials spills on deadline.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [15]
Chemicals [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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EPA Hides Data on Pesticide Link to Bee Die-Off [21]

The Environmental Protection Agency looks determined to keep the public from knowing whether a pesticide on which it has waived safety rules may be a factor in the worldwide bee die-off known as "colony collapse disorder."
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [22]
Chemicals [3]
Biodiversity [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Coal Ash Stories Untold in Many Communities [23]

The December 2008 coal-ash spill at a Tennessee power plant has been making headlines for two weeks — but few journalists realize there are coal-ash stories to be unearthed in many communities. Here are some clues for finding them.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Disasters [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [26]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Comments Sought On Formaldehyde In Wood Products [27]

Concerns over emissions from formaldehyde in pressed-wood products have been building for many years. California's new rules addressing the problem went into effect Jan. 1, 2009. Now EPA is looking at following suit.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Government [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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EPA HIDES INDUSTRY DATA ON ATRAZINE RISK [29]

An EPA database that has not been made public shows alarming levels of the pesticide atrazine are showing up in water bodies around the U.S.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Industry Keeps Secret the Gas-Drilling Toxins Seeping into Drinking Wells [30]

A series of drinking-water contamination incidents have raised doubts about EPA's safety claims regarding hydraulic fracturing in domestic gas wells. And it's hard for people to get to the bottom of those claims when the identity of the chemicals injected during the process is protected as a "trade secret."
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Water & Oceans [5]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [31]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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