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"Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children" [1]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [3]
Chemicals [4]
Food [5]
Health [6]
Pollution [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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If Pollution Cleanup Sounds Too Good To Be True, Maybe It Is [9]

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [11]
Pollution [7]
Region:
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [12]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about If Pollution Cleanup Sounds Too Good To Be True, Maybe It Is [9]
A Federal Superfund Site Near You May Hold a Great Story [13]

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [11]
Policy [15]
Pollution [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about A Federal Superfund Site Near You May Hold a Great Story [13]
Utilities Say Public Can't Handle the Truth About Drugs in Water [17]

When water providers find pharmaceuticals in drinking water, they rarely tell the public.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [19]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Utilities Say Public Can't Handle the Truth About Drugs in Water [17]
Read It Now: Suppressed CDC Great Lakes Toxics Report [20]

After Congressional Democrats criticized them for suppressing a report on toxic substances in the Great Lakes, and after an independent investigative journalism group published excerpts, the Centers for Disease Control finally published it March 12, 2008.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [19]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [21]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Read It Now: Suppressed CDC Great Lakes Toxics Report [20]
Use It or Lose It: EPA Releases Toxics Data Feb. 24 [22]

EPA made public the latest year's data from the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) February 21, 2008, catching a few journalists by surprise, as usual.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [7]
Journalism & Media [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Use It or Lose It: EPA Releases Toxics Data Feb. 24 [22]
EPA Would Suppress Info on Toxic Gases From Feedlots at Industry Urging [24]

Large feedlots would no longer have to report toxic emissions under a rule proposed Dec. 21, 2007, by EPA.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Food [5]
Pollution [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about EPA Would Suppress Info on Toxic Gases From Feedlots at Industry Urging [24]
New Jersey Sues EPA Over NSR Air Pollution Reporting Cutbacks [25]

New Jersey filed a lawsuit Feb. 19, 2008, challenging the US-EPA's December 2007 rule that utilities could decide for themselves whether their air pollution increases are significant enough to require detailed record-keeping.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [3]
Pollution [7]
Region:
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [12]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about New Jersey Sues EPA Over NSR Air Pollution Reporting Cutbacks [25]
Great Lakes Study Suppressed [26]

For more than seven months, the nation's top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [19]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [21]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Great Lakes Study Suppressed [26]
EPA Teases Congress on Air Waiver Information: Interrogation Next [27]

EPA still has not complied with requests from two Congressional investigating committees for documents on its decision to deny California and some 16 other states waivers allowing them to regulate tailpipe greenhouse emissions.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [3]
Pollution [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [16]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about EPA Teases Congress on Air Waiver Information: Interrogation Next [27]

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