Publication Items

Congressional Think Tank Reports Leaked Again [1]

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 [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [3]
Fish & Fisheries [4]
Food [5]
Natural Resources [6]
Technology [7]
Transportation [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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Oregonian Reporter ‘Humanizes’ Harm [11]

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [3]
Natural Resources [6]
Transportation [8]
Region:
Northwest (OR WA) [13]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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"The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World" [14]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [3]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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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"" [16]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [17]
Journalism & Media [18]
People & Population [19]
Water & Oceans [9]
Region:
Asia [20]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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New Power Plant Database Offers Local Stories for New Energy Era [21]

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 [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [3]
Visibility:
Public [10]
- Read more about New Power Plant Database Offers Local Stories for New Energy Era [21]
New Report Documents Extractive Industries' Payments [22]

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 [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [3]
Natural Resources [6]
Visibility:
Public [10]
- Read more about New Report Documents Extractive Industries' Payments [22]
Read the Reports Congress Doesn't Want You To Read [23]

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 [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [24]
Chemicals [25]
Economy & Business [26]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Government [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Military [29]
Transportation [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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SEJournal Summer 2007, Vol. 17 No. 2 [30]

In this issue: Taking readers on a journey; award winner focuses on eco damage being done now; investigative reporting can produce a ‘higher obligation’; effects of climate change on journalism; report probes multiple sources of global mercury pollution; studying smaller newspapers; basing coverage on scientific evidence; farm bill’s future environmental impacts; book reviews; and more.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [24]
Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Journalism & Media [18]
Pollution [33]
Science [34]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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EPA Intends To Add Natural Gas Processing Plants to Toxics Inventory [35]

Administrator Gina McCarthy revealed October 22, 2015, that the U.S. EPA intends to add some natural gas processing facilities to the Toxics Release Inventory, a searchable online database of many of the largest discharges of toxic substances to air, water, and land — and a key tool for environmental journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [25]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Pollution [33]
Visibility:
Public [10]
- Read more about EPA Intends To Add Natural Gas Processing Plants to Toxics Inventory [35]
Between the Lines: Iconic Author, Former Farmer, Plants Seeds for a ‘More Attractive’ World [36]

In this "Between the Lines" excerpt from the latest issue of SEJournal, book editor Tom Henry interviews Earth Policy Institute's Lester Brown, recipient of 25 honorary degrees and author of 54 books (although, amazingly, he never learned to type).

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [37]
Climate Change [32]
Economy & Business [26]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Science [34]
Water & Oceans [9]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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