Publication Items

Memo to Energy, Business, Science and Health Reporters [1]

Fellow Journalists, we have a lot in common. We’ve read many of your stories on issues surrounding energy, business, science and health. We couldn’t help noticing a common link in so many of your stories: The environment. Those of us at the Society of Environmental Journalists think we are a very good fit for you. Read all the reasons why, by board president Jeff Burnside in the new issue of SEJournal.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Health [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Science [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Congressional Research Service Reports of Use to Environmental Journos [9]

The reports aren't released to the taxpayers who funded them but the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project publishes leaked copies. Here are 17 of the latest, from air to water, food to fuel, and much more.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [11]
Air [12]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Food [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Congressional Research Service Reports of Use to Environmental Journos [9]
Maine Law Hid Threats to Public from Oil Trains [16]

Maine passed a law in 2015 that allowed railroads to keep oil-train routing information from the public — over the governor's veto. In the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting's Pine Tree Watchdog, Dave Sherwood reports how the provision was a bait-and-switch.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [17]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Government [18]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [19]
Transportation [20]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [21]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [22]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [23]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [24]
Northwest (OR WA) [25]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Congressional Think Tank Reports Leaked Again [26]

Although you, as a taxpayer, pay for reports by the Congressional Research Service, Congress does not allow you to read them. Fortunately, somebody leaked these reports of interest to environmental journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [4]
Fish & Fisheries [27]
Food [13]
Natural Resources [28]
Technology [29]
Transportation [20]
Water & Oceans [15]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Congressional Think Tank Reports Leaked Again [26]
Oregonian Reporter ‘Humanizes’ Harm [30]

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [4]
Natural Resources [28]
Transportation [20]
Region:
Northwest (OR WA) [25]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Oregonian Reporter ‘Humanizes’ Harm [30]
"The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World" [32]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [33]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [4]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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"A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka"" [34]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [33]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [35]
Journalism & Media [6]
People & Population [19]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region:
Asia [36]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about "A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka"" [34]
New Power Plant Database Offers Local Stories for New Energy Era [37]

Electric power is often news for environmental journalists. A new database from the Energy Information Administration offers a hunting ground for stories relevant to today's changing energy scene.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [4]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about New Power Plant Database Offers Local Stories for New Energy Era [37]
New Report Documents Extractive Industries' Payments [38]

Journalists reporting on energy and natural resources just got a new data resource: a report from the U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Want to know what the government gets paid for coal, oil, and mining on federal lands? It has pretty good answers.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [4]
Natural Resources [28]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about New Report Documents Extractive Industries' Payments [38]
Read the Reports Congress Doesn't Want You To Read [39]

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 [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [11]
Chemicals [40]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Government [18]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Military [41]
Transportation [20]
Water & Oceans [15]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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