Publication Items

Enviros Want To See Fired New Brunswick Scientist's Glyphosate Report [1]

The Council of Canadians, an environmental group, is calling for release of a report on the herbicide glyphosate that New Brunswick's chief medical officer was working on when she was dismissed six months ago.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Health [5]
Region:
Canada [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Leaked: New Secret CRS Explainers for the Environment-Energy Beat [8]

Here are some recent Congressional Research Service reports relevant to the environment and energy beat, thanks to the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [9]
Disasters [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Health [5]
Transportation [12]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [13]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Leaked: New Secret CRS Explainers for the Environment-Energy Beat [8]
Federal Agencies Pose Information Roadblocks to Health Journalists [14]

Environmental journalists are not alone in their frustrations with the federal officials who are supposed to help journalists get information about what government is doing. Now the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) has surveyed its members and found the federal government often blocks access to information that health care journalists seek.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [5]
Journalism & Media [15]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Leaked Again: Secret CRS Reports for Environment Beat [16]

Here are the latest leaked explainers, written by the Congressional Research Service, that may be of use to environmental journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [17]
Disasters [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Transportation [12]
Water & Oceans [19]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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House Science Panel Probes EPA Unpublishing of Glyphosate Report [20]

U.S. EPA on April 29, 2016, posted on its website the 2015 "final" report by its Cancer Assessment Review Committee on the widely used herbicide glyphosate, sold commercially by Monsanto as Roundup. But on May 2, the report vanished from the EPA site.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Politics [21]
Health [5]
Science [22]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Will Journalists Heed the Lessons of Flint? [23]

SEJ’s WatchDog Project director Joseph A. Davis analyzes local and regional media's role in reporting — or not — the Flint water debacle.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Politics [21]
Health [5]
Water & Oceans [19]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [25]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Memo to Energy, Business, Science and Health Reporters [26]

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 [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Health [5]
Journalism & Media [15]
Science [22]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Failure to Disclose Lead Threats in Drinking Water: Widespread Problem [29]

Bad as it is, the Flint drinking water disaster is hardly uncommon. Even though the law requires authorities to tell the public of dangerous levels of lead in drinking water, they often don't.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Disasters [10]
Environmental Politics [21]
Government [30]
Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [18]
People & Population [31]
Water & Oceans [19]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [25]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Flint Water Debacle Raises Freedom-of-Information Issues [32]

If the water coming from your tap is unfit to drink, you have a right to know. But the crisis in Flint, Michigan, is challenging that assumption. Meanwhile, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (pictured) apologized to the residents of Flint, and "pledged to promptly release his emails about the issue," according to the New York Times.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [33]
Disasters [10]
Environmental Politics [21]
Health [5]
Water & Oceans [19]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [25]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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"The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health" [34]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [35]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [36]
Environmental Health [4]
Health [5]
Science [22]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about "The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health" [34]

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