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WatchDog Group Sues for Records as Pruitt Confirmation Vote Nears & More [1]

The latest WatchDog TipSheet details an open-records case against U.S. EPA nominee Scott Pruitt (shown), the scoop on an Agriculture Department animal welfare database that vanished then returned, a reporter busted at Standing Rock, plus items on whistleblowers, coal-ash and more.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Journalism & Media [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [10]
Policy [11]
Pollution [12]
Waste [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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Enviro, Energy Reporters Look at Prospects for Beat in 2017 [19]

Veteran journalists gathered in Washington, D.C. last Friday, Feb. 3, to share insights into how environment and energy policy may unfold in the year ahead — and to urge colleagues to prepare for possibly dramatic shifts ahead. Key takeaways, plus video, audio clips and a presentation by SEJ's president. Photo: Washington Post reporter Daryl Fears; courtesy of Schuyler Null/Wilson Center.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [20]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [21]
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [23]
Policy [11]
Science [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
International [26]
Asia [27]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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Turbulent Prospects on Environment-Energy Beat Likely in Trump Era [28]

While it's too soon to tell what the new Trump administration and 115th Congress will do, our special report suggests we may see a groundswell of environmental deregulation and massive energy development. Backgrounder looks at the top 10 energy-environment issues to watch in the President Trump era.

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Backgrounders [29]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [30]
Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [23]
Policy [11]
Pollution [12]
Science [24]
Transportation [32]
Waste [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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Omnibus Politics: Building an Infrastructure Program [33]

Democrats and Republications may agree on a vast federal program to build and repair the nation's crumbling infrastructure, but still uncertain is what will be built, how it will be paid for and who will vote for it. TipSheet looks at the politics of public works (what journalists used to call "pork").

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [34]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Planning & Growth [35]
Policy [11]
Transportation [32]
Waste [13]
Water & Oceans [25]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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Could Trump 'Cancel' Paris Climate Deal? [36]

President Trump said on the campaign trail that he would "cancel" the Paris climate agreement. But could he really wreck the treaty? Or are other nations — and our own — already too far down the road to fully undermine the international pact? TipSheet takes a closer look.

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TipSheet [34]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
International [26]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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Coal Leasing on Federal Lands [37]

While resurrecting the declining U.S. coal industry, as promised by the new administration, is probably not possible, it may not stop a lifting of the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands. TipSheet looks at how the issue moved front and center, and whether the move would help coal country.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [34]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Health [38]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [23]
Policy [11]
Pollution [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [40]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [41]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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Pipelines and Energy Infrastructure Pose Conflict [42]

Oil pipelines like the Keystone XL and Dakota Access are back at the center of a political firestorm, with a new executive order from President Trump just a few days into his new administration giving them the go-ahead. But it's just the beginning — many other pipelines, for both gas and oil, have been proposed.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [34]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Transportation [32]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [15]
Canada [43]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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As EPA, Other Agencies Muzzle Staff, WatchDog Issues Leaker's Guide [44]

At a time when government information may be harder than ever to access, WatchDog offers a unique guide to leaks that reporters can offer potential whistleblowers. Also in the latest column, sealed records on a weedkiller-cancer connection, secret talks on coal-ash regs and more.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [4]
Chemicals [45]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [46]
Government [7]
Journalism & Media [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [12]
Waste [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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What Plans for Clean Power Plan? [47]

This week's TipSheet looks at the murky legal and regulatory prospects for the Clean Power Plan, an EPA effort to cut carbon emissions now being challenged by the Trump administration. Will it be revoked in presidential action, or is more likely to get drawn into a murky court proceeding?

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [34]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Policy [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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Tracking Committee Leaders for 115th Congress [48]

To help keep tabs on the newly seated 115th Congress and its gate-keepers of energy and environment law, the latest TipSheet offers a checklist of committee leadership. Plus, a closer look at three key Senate panels, likely agendas and new leadership, such as Senate Energy Committee Chair John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (shown in photo).

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [34]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [23]
Policy [11]
Pollution [12]
Waste [13]
Water & Oceans [25]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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