Publication Items

Coal-Ash Issue Not So Easy To Dispose Of [1]

Late last week Congress moved authority over coal-ash pollution standards from the feds to states and utilities. With hundreds of huge pits and ponds of the potentially toxic substance scattered across the United States, our latest TipSheet explores this unsolved problem and helps you find your local coal-ash angle.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Watch List for Trump Federal Agency Appointments [10]

Sarah Palin for Interior secretary? Her name is among those being mentioned for top environment and energy posts in the incoming Trump administration. To help you cover the shaping of the new cabinet, the latest TipSheet runs down better-known and lesser-known candidates being floated for EPA, Interior, Energy and Agriculture department chiefs.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [11]
Air [12]
Chemicals [13]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Food [16]
Forests [17]
Government [18]
Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Natural Resources [20]
Policy [21]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Infrastructure — Covering the Hidden, Neglected Stories [22]

With the nation's infrastructure suddenly atop the political agenda, thanks to incoming President Trump, Circle of Blue reporter Brett Walton talks with SEJournal Online about his award-winning series on the neglected risks of septic system pollution, in our latest 'Inside Story' Q&A.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [23]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [14]
Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [4]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Will a New Broom Sweep Enviro-Energy Policy Clean? Tracking the Trump To-Do List [25]

In the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential upset, U.S. environmental and energy policy may undergo dramatic change. SEJournal Online has prepared a reporter’s watchlist of 12 stories with local angles and broad impact, ranging from fossil fuels to renewables, clean air to clean water, and infrastructure to public lands. Read on. [25]

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [12]
Climate Change [26]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [18]
Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Natural Resources [20]
Policy [21]
Pollution [5]
Science [27]
Transportation [28]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Beyond Fracking — Covering Injection Wells in Your State [29]

When dangerous liquid wastes are pumped into deep wells, it's the Safe Drinking Water Act's Underground Injection Control program that aims to keep the practice safe. But does it work? Our weekly TipSheet looks beyond fracking to other kinds of injection wells, and shows how you can track stories on the practice in your state.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [13]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Government [18]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [7]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Got Coal Ash? Southeast Database Helps Watchdog Power Plants [30]

Another database upgrade that will help environmental journalists is available from the group Southeast Coal Ash. This database site covers Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [3]
Pollution [5]
Technology [32]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [33]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Impaired Waters Lists: A Tool for Water Pollution Reporting [34]

Summer algal blooms, seafood advisories, and beach closures remind us that water pollution has not gone away, and environmental journalists can still find loads of local and regional stories about it — if they dig. Here's a tool that can help. Image: © Clipart.com [35].

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [7]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Impaired Waters Lists: A Tool for Water Pollution Reporting [34]
Pork Producers Win Appeal in CAFO Disclosure Case [36]

In addition to nuisance smells, confined animal feeding operations (aka CAFOs) can present serious air and water pollution problems. They are weakly regulated. Now a federal appeals court says information on who owns those feedlots can be kept secret. Image: © Clipart.com [37].

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [11]
Government [18]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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What Congress Won't Let You Read: Latest CRS Explainers Leaked [38]

The Congressional Research Service produces expert nonpartisan backgrounders on many subjects of interest to environment and energy journalists. But Congress won't release them. Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, you can read them now.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [11]
Climate Change [26]
Disasters [39]
Economy & Business [40]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Transportation [28]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Wyoming "Data Trespass" Legal Conflict Settled by Ranchers, Enviros [41]

A lawsuit over Wyoming's controversial "data trespass" law, which made it illegal to document pollution violations on "private open land", was settled in August without really resolving any of the important Constitutional issues behind it — and with both sides claiming victory.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Region:
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [42]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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