Publication Items

"DDT Wars: Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating the Environmental Defense Fund" [1]

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BookShelf [2]
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Activism [3]
Chemicals [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Wildlife [6]
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Public [7]
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Between the Lines: Author Spends Two Decades ‘Hooked on a Character’ [8]

Rarely does a writer get so deeply into the heart of his or her subject while also avoiding the pitfalls of sentimentality. So began the judges’ comments for “Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island,” winner of SEJ’s 2015 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. [9] The book’s author, Will Harlan, spent 19 years developing a bold, unflinching portrayal of Cumberland Island, Ga.’s most ardent defender, the brilliant-yet-eccentric Carol Ruckdeschel. For the latest edition of SEJournal’s Between the Lines author Q & A, Harlan spoke with our book editor, Tom Henry.

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BookShelf [2]
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Activism [3]
Environmental Studies [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Natural Resources [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Wildlife [6]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [14]
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Between the Lines: Iconic Author, Former Farmer, Plants Seeds for a ‘More Attractive’ World [15]

In this "Between the Lines" excerpt from the latest issue of SEJournal, book editor Tom Henry interviews Earth Policy Institute's Lester Brown, recipient of 25 honorary degrees and author of 54 books (although, amazingly, he never learned to type).

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BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Climate Change [16]
Economy & Business [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Science [19]
Water & Oceans [13]
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Public [7]
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Idaho "Ag-Gag" Law as Unconstitutional [20]

"The facts show the state's purpose in enacting the statute was to protect industrial animal agriculture by silencing its critics," district Judge B. Lynn Winmill wrote. Sometimes investigative journalists need to go undercover. And sometimes muckraking journalists need undercover whistleblowers to tip them to abuses.

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WatchDog TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [22]
Laws & Regulations [5]
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Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
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Public [7]
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Men in Trees in Indie Films [24]

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Features [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Disasters [26]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Forests [27]
Journalism & Media [11]
Natural Resources [12]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [28]
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Public [7]
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Journalist Booted from Denial-Palooza for "Advocacy" [29]

Not all journalists were welcome at the Heartland Institute's annual conference messaging doubt about climate change June 11, 2015. Brendan Montague, editor of DeSmog UK, was denied a press pass for the event and escorted from the meeting site by hotel security.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Climate Change [16]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Is Wyoming Ban on Reporting Environmental Harm Unconstitutional? [30]

A newly enacted Wyoming law seems to be aimed at criminalizing the collection and reporting of stream pollution or other environmental harm. It creates a unique new category of crime called "data trespass." Just what the law, signed in March by Gov. Matt Mead (R), means or does is being debated hotly.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [22]
Environmental Politics [31]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [32]
Region:
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
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Public [7]
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Canadian Public Not Allowed To Know Kinder Morgan Pipeline Emergency Plan [33]

The expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada by the multibillion-dollar Houston firm Kinder Morgan is, to say the least, controversial. So it did not help instill public confidence when Canada's National Energy Board on Jan 16, 2015, ruled that Kinder Morgan did not have to make public its emergency response plans for spills and fires.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Region:
Canada [34]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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With Environmental Rules at Stake, Dark Money Set To Flood 2016 U.S. Elections [35]

Are megabucks from fossil fuels and other big industries corrupting the election of federal government officials? The U.S. public has little chance of knowing under current rules that are bringing "dark money" to ascendancy in American politics.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Environmental Politics [31]
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Public [7]
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Arrest of Four Near Hog Farm Tests Utah's "Ag Gag" Law [36]

One way to deal with bad press is to make it illegal. Exposés of inhumane conditions at feedlots and slaughterhouses are being made illegal by state legislatures that pass "ag gag" laws. Now a case in Utah is challenging whether industrial agriculture's claims of secrecy trump the eating public's right to know. Image: Sows in 7'x2' Smithfield Foods gestation crates. By Humane Society of the US [CC], 2010. [37]

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [22]
Consumer [38]
Health [39]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [32]
Region:
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Northwest (OR WA) [40]
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Public [7]
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