Publication Items

Chemical Safety: Right-To-Know? No — Not Exactly [1]

The system for informing Americans about the threats to their health and safety posed by chemical plants is seriously broken, a Reuters investigation revealed August 10, 2013. Facilities often misidentify chemicals or their location, or fail to report the existence of the substances. But there are tools to help reporters.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [3]
People & Population [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Health [6]
Disasters [7]
Chemicals [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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NIOSH Withholding Locations Where Fracking Sand Threatens Workers [10]

Studies by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health show silica used in hydraulic fracturing of tight oil and gas formations can endanger workers. But a FOIA request seeking to know the sites where workers had been endangered has met with no response, independent journalist and SEJ member Elizabeth Grossman reports.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population [4]
Health [6]
Government [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Does Info on Pipeline Hazards Belong to Public They Endanger? [13]

A doughty, Pulitzer-winning publication is insisting the public has a right to know when pipeline companies are profiting by endangering people's lives, health, and property. InsideClimate News is pushing back against oil companies and federal regulators who say reports on pipeline flaws and hazards are trade secrets.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population [4]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Economy & Business [14]
Disasters [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [15]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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What the Public Doesn't Know About Treaties Won't Hurt the Corporations [16]

If you are looking for yet another category of environmental information that the U.S. public is not allowed to know about, try international trade agreements. A recent court decision — one that got little attention from the news media — upheld the federal government's authority to keep secret some information about the health and environmental impacts of trade treaties.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Economy & Business [14]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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AP Probe: Keeping Explosive Chemicals Secret May Not Make People Safer [17]

Aftershocks of the April 17, 2013, ammonium nitrate explosion in West, Texas, continue — including investigations by news organizations as well as state and federal agencies. A major multistate investigative project by the Associated Press could only get data for 28 of the 50 states, but within those states it found that more than 600,000 people live within a typical blast zone and more had family in schools and hospitals within one.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population [4]
Disasters [7]
Chemicals [8]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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"Cairns: Messengers in Stone" [19]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [20]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [21]
People & Population [4]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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"Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam’s 'Lost World'" [22]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [20]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [23]
Journalism & Media [21]
People & Population [4]
Planning & Growth [3]
Wildlife [24]
Region:
Asia [25]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about "Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam’s 'Lost World'" [22]
"Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall" [26]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [20]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [23]
Journalism & Media [21]
People & Population [4]
Planning & Growth [3]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Mexico [28]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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"Places: Habitats of a Human Lifetime" [29]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [20]
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population [4]
Region:
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [30]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Covering Sprawl, Science, and Chickens [31]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [32]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [33]
Disasters [7]
Journalism & Media [21]
People & Population [4]
Planning & Growth [3]
Science [34]
Water & Oceans [35]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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