Publication Items

Realities of Coastal Living Often Forgotten, Until the Worst Hits [1]

In the effort to help all coastal communities face with the realities that the Gulf of Mexico is their neighbor and sea level rise is inching up relentlessly, lessons can be learned from Louisiana as it works to adapt and to mitigate flood risk.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [3]
People & Population [4]
Planning & Growth [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Pipeline Data, Maps Could Be a Reporting Resource — If Open [9]

There are many good investigative stories to be done about natural gas pipelines in your local area. You can get some maps and data about these pipelines if you try. Hard. The government is not going to help too much. One resource is the National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS), which allows the general public to see geodata on a county-by-county basis.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [11]
Planning & Growth [5]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Special Edition TipSheet: Coastal Risk and Resilience in the Gulf Region [12]

From 1970 until 2010, 34.8 million more people decided to move towards the coast of the United States and that population is expected to grow just as sea-level rise and climate change continue to increase the risk of living there. Amy Wold, a reporter with The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, covers change and adaptation; locks and floodgates; levees and marshes; communities at risk; insurance issues; and lessons learned. Photo (click to enlarge [13]): In 2012, Wold took this shot of the rapidly disappearing Cat Island in Barataria Basin in south Louisiana. She returned there in 2014 to find barely any land left above water. © Amy Wold, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [15]
Disasters [3]
People & Population [4]
Planning & Growth [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Special Edition TipSheet: Gulf Coast Restoration [17]

Amy Wold, a reporter with The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, writes about coastal challenges facing the state, including coastal loss, restoration, economics, diversion, the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP settlements and the RESTORE Act, fisheries impacts — and why protecting and stabilizing Louisiana’s coastline is not just a local issue, but a national one. Image: Heavy machinery moves around sediment that has been piped in from the Mississippi River at a coastal restoration project in Plaquemines Parish in November 2013. © Amy Wold, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [11]
Fish & Fisheries [18]
Planning & Growth [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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WikiLeaks Exposes Secret Obama Trade Pact on Environment [19]

Corporate lobby groups? Yeah, they can read it. Big campaign donors? They can read it, too. But can the news media and U.S. public read it? — No way! That would be un-American. Welcome to the secretly negotiated trade treaty known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [5]
Environmental Politics [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Economy & Business [22]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Adaptation Snapshots [23]

Special Report: Part Two

By DONALD BORENSTEIN
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [5]
People & Population [4]
Climate Change [15]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Host City for SEJ Conference Maintains Sustainable Attitude [24]

SEJ returns to Chattanooga, Oct. 2-6, for its 23rd annual conference, this time building on and highlighting the city's sustainability theme, which has entered its second generation and garnered worldwide recognition. SEJ President Don Hopey explains.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [5]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Dams and Levees: What You Don't Know Might Kill You [26]

Tens of thousands of U.S. citizens are at risk from potential dam disasters, yet state and federal agencies hold to a policy that amounts to "out of sight, out of mind." The biggest danger, apparently, is that the public might find out about the dangers, and criticize insufficient dam safety measures, inconvenience private dam owners, depress real estate values, or demand public spending that is politically painful for those in office.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [6]
Planning & Growth [5]
People & Population [4]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [27]
Disasters [3]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Dams and Levees: Introduction [28]

This special issue of the WatchDog focuses on the transparency of safety information related to dams, levees, impoundments, and related water-control structures. For environmental journalists, these subjects offer a goldmine of great story possibilities. These are stories that have not been covered much in the past decade, and stories that fit well at the local, state, or regional level.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [6]
Planning & Growth [5]
People & Population [4]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [27]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Disasters [3]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Get Feet Wet on Coastal Adaptation [29]

Special Report: Part Three

By KATE SHEPPARD

Americans — and humans in general — have long flocked to the coasts. Thirty-nine percent of the U.S. population, or about 123 million of us, live in coastal counties. But many in coastal areas are finding it increasingly less hospitable due to sea-level rise and extreme weather events linked to climate change. As communities figure out how to adapt to these changes, it is often environmental journalists who are being asked to cover these complex stories.
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [6]
Planning & Growth [5]
People & Population [4]
Climate Change [15]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Special Report: Part Two

Special Report: Part Three

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