Publication Items

Clean Power Plan Undoing Has State, Regional Fallout [1]

Rewinding the Clean Power Plan and its planned cuts in U.S. carbon emissions may not have the effect intended, reports this week's TipSheet. Why changes now underway in the electric power industry may have less to do with regulations than with the energy market itself. Plus, covering developments state by state.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [3]
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Trump Review of Auto Emissions Standards Upsets Deal [12]

Has President Donald Trump really unraveled Obama-era auto mileage standards and the climate policy they supported? Far from it, explains our latest Backgrounder. Here's why true change on auto emissions will take much more than a presidential fiat. And get angles and sources to report the ongoing issue.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [3]
Climate Change [4]
Consumer [14]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [9]
Transportation [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
California [16]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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How To File a FOIA Request [17]

As SEJournal's part during Sunshine Week, we've put together a step-by-step for filing your own Freedom of Information Act requests. Find out about best practices for waiving fees, expediting requests, pushing back on exemptions, appealing FOIA denials and using state open-records laws. [Image: © Clipart.com [18]]

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
- Read more about How To File a FOIA Request [17]
EPA Budget Cuts Threaten a Program Near You [21]

As the Trump administration proposes big cuts at environmental agencies like the U.S. EPA, the latest TipSheet explores how to dig up local angles from the budget action. Examples: Tracking changes at EPA regional offices and labs, at Superfund or at state revolving funds for clean water and safe drinking water programs.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [6]
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Government [7]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [24]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [25]
Pollution [9]
Waste [26]
Water & Oceans [27]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
California [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
Northwest (OR WA) [30]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Get Wise on Water Rule [32]

Wondering what WOTUS is? Or how the Clean Water Rule relates to the Clean Water Act and to the Section 404 permitting program meant to prevent the destruction of U.S. wetlands? Our Beat Basics column explains the history and background of the rule to help you cover White House, EPA and court action likely ahead.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [33]
Environmental Politics [6]
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Government [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [24]
Planning & Growth [34]
Water & Oceans [27]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Draining a Different Kind of Swamp [35]

As the Trump administration last week began its rollback of the Clean Water Rule, reporters are likely to see many more stories about wetlands permitting — especially on the local level. The latest TipSheet walks you through the Section 404 permitting maze and helps you find out what's happening in your locale and state.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [6]
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [27]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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As Fight Flares Over Public Lands, Summoning Power of Past Bond [36]

Bobby Magill, in his most recent SEJ President's Report, recalls his time traversing federal wilderness areas that are now increasingly the subject of dispute. How are they to be used? Who is to hold them? Will these vast Western lands remain in the public domain? And what is the role of journalists in covering this story?

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [37]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [6]
Forests [38]
Government [7]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [24]
Wildlife [39]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Toxics Database a Key Tool for Environmental Journalists [40]

The Toxics Release Inventory has long been a vital reporting tool, and now there's a new edition of the database, issued last month by the outgoing Obama administration. Reporter's Toolbox walks you through how to smartly mine TRI for stories, whether you're a newbie or a veteran. Plus, TRI caveats.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [41]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [42]
Disasters [43]
Economy & Business [33]
Environmental Health [22]
Health [44]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [9]
Waste [26]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Veteran Reporters Say Ignore the Noise, and Localize [45]

Environmental journalists at a day-long event [46] urged colleagues to report on the real, local impacts of policy, more than on the buzz around the policy. On hand at the SEJ-sponsored program were representatives of administrations past and present, including Trump EPA transition team head Myron Ebell (shown).

Videos:

Tracy Mehan lll, American Water Works Association [47]
Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute [48]
Ed Maibach, George Mason University [49]
Scott Segal, Policy Resolution Group and Bracewell LLP [50]
Bob Perciasepe, Center for Climate & Energy Solutions [51]
Environmental advocates [52]
Journalists panel [53]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [54]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [55]
Government [7]
Health [44]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Policy [56]
Pollution [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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WatchDog Group Sues for Records as Pruitt Confirmation Vote Nears & More [57]

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 [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [58]
Agriculture [59]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [25]
Policy [56]
Pollution [9]
Waste [26]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [60]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [61]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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