Publication Items

Checking Local Water Use and Scrutinizing Those Big Water Projects Can Benefit Your Community [1]

Author Cynthia Barnett explains water-use truths and fallacies, offers tips for investigating water projects proposed for your audience area, and reports how some of the country’s most progressive engineers and local governments are showing that it’s absolutely possible to live with far less water.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [4]
Natural Resources [5]
Planning & Growth [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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New UN Science Panel Deals with Dwindling Natural Resources [9]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [5]
Pollution [11]
Science [12]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about New UN Science Panel Deals with Dwindling Natural Resources [9]
Dept. of Energy Focuses on Critical 'Rare Earth' Minerals [13]

The new Critical Materials Strategy lays out the issues for 16 key materials used in the manufacture of components for electric vehicles, electronics, wind, solar, and lighting equipment — such as current and projected supply and demand, options for reducing supply and demand problems, alternative materials and product designs to explore, and implications for various international relationships.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [5]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Dept. of Energy Focuses on Critical 'Rare Earth' Minerals [13]
BLM Says 9 Western States Have Worthy Wilderness Areas [16]

Designating lands as wilderness or some other highly protected status always is contentious, but the BLM has identified 24 areas in 9 western states the agency says have significant local support for this idea: CA (9 areas), CO (3), ID (1), MT (1), NM (2), NV (2), OR (2), UT (3), and WA (1).
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [5]
Region:
California [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [18]
Northwest (OR WA) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Erionite, Like Asbestos, Can Cause Cancer [21]

The naturally-occurring erionite causes malignant mesothelioma and evidence suggests it is much more toxic than asbestos. Concern is rising as development that disturbs erionite deposits occurs in 12 western states.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [22]
Chemicals [23]
Natural Resources [5]
Region:
California [17]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [24]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Erionite, Like Asbestos, Can Cause Cancer [21]
Feds Provide Conservation Funds, But Won't Disclose Recipients [25]

USDA spokeswoman Isabel Benemelis declined to release the names or locations of the landowners who are likely to be participating in two new SAFE (State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement) efforts, saying journalists have to make such requests via FOIA.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [5]
Government [26]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Annual Land & Water Conservation Fund Dollars Announced [27]

The states, territories, and Washington, DC, will share $37.4 million doled out through the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund. The grants, administered by the National Park Service, match funding provided by states and local entities, and are supposed to be used for local parks, recreation, and conservation projects.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [7]
Natural Resources [5]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Annual Land & Water Conservation Fund Dollars Announced [27]
SEJ Offers Resources for Covering Summer Stories [28]

Wildfire, hurricanes, recreation, extreme heat, drought, electric brownouts, UV rays and sunscreen, insect-borne disease like West Nile virus, fishing, dead zones, and algal blooms — TipSheet can help you cover these local environmental stories.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [22]
Disasters [29]
Natural Resources [5]
Water & Oceans [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about SEJ Offers Resources for Covering Summer Stories [28]
Feds Award Millions for Environmental Projects [30]

There is local news in these USDA and USFWS grants. These on-the-ground projects involve specific groups and individuals, offering prime examples of programs you can investigate to see whether federal tax dollars are being effectively and efficiently spent.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [31]
Agriculture [32]
Climate Change [33]
Natural Resources [5]
Wildlife [34]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Feds Award Millions for Environmental Projects [30]
Wildfire a Key to Local Environmental Stories [35]

Rarely will you learn from national fire coverage the names of people whose homes the fire has destroyed or threatened. Or what flooding and wildlife loss may follow a fire. That is covered by local media or not at all. Be prepared with these resources to help you.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [5]
Disasters [29]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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