Publication Items

High Court Mulls Public's Right To Know of Threats to Its Safety [1]

In the case of Milner v. Navy, a Puget Sound resident and activist sought information that would identify the locations and potential blast ranges of explosive ordnance stored at Washington’s Naval Magazine Indian Island.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population [3]
Military [4]
Government [5]
Disasters [6]
Activism [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Interest in High-Speed Rail Is Widespread [9]

The Department of Transportation awarded $2.4 billion for 54 projects in 23 states. The winners were selected from 132 applicants in 32 states, who had asked for a total of $8.8 billion for planning, construction, equipment purchases, and other closely related efforts.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Transportation [11]
Planning & Growth [12]
People & Population [3]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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EPA Asks for Comment on School Siting Guidelines [13]

This guidance would provide insights and reduce threats when competing forces — such as land availability, cost, timing, vehicle and utility access, zoning, and developer cooperation — drive decision makers to build a school at a site that may pose a toxic threat to the children and staff.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [14]
People & Population [3]
Health [15]
Air [16]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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EPA Releases Reports on Toxics at Selected Schools [17]

Following a December 2008 USA Today report on outdoor air pollution at hundreds of schools, EPA began a monitoring process. Final reports for 21 (of the small number of schools selected) have now been released; the results are mixed.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [14]
People & Population [3]
Health [15]
Chemicals [18]
Air [16]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Disease-Tracking Tool May Help Both People and Wildlife [19]

This growing database may help you identify emerging problems and patterns, and supplement what government and university personnel can track.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [20]
People & Population [3]
Health [15]
Environmental Health [21]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Create Custom Environmental Maps with National Atlas [22]

Dial up just one layer of data, or add layer after layer (from scores of topics) to create your own concoction of interlinked factors. The zoom function allows you to narrow or enlarge your geographic coverage as you see fit.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [23]
People & Population [3]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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EPA Gives Public an Environmental Justice Mapping Tool: EJView [24]

This new tool allows any user online to create custom study areas based on a wide range of variables: address, ZIP code, county, city, township, facility, watershed, or geographic coordinates. Other environmental data can then be mapped onto that study area.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [23]
Pollution [14]
People & Population [3]
Health [15]
Government [5]
Environmental Health [21]
Chemicals [18]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Peak Water: A New Way To Look at Long-Term Water Issues [25]

Viewing local, regional, national, and global water issues through the lens of "peak water," a concept explained in a Pacific Institute paper, can yield some interesting angles on water-related stories and long-term water issues.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [26]
People & Population [3]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Calif. Climate Ballot Fight: National Ripple Effects Either Way [27]

If Proposition 23 passes, it could disrupt plans for many green companies and their suppliers in CA and around the US — not to mention weakening political will in other states, or at the federal level, for tougher green energy policy.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population [3]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Economy & Business [30]
Climate Change [31]
Region:
California [32]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Improved Tsunami Warning System Still Needs Work [33]

A National Research Council report says one of the most significant problems is a continuing lack of communication between federal tsunami warning system officials; local officials and emergency managers; the media; and the public.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [26]
Planning & Growth [12]
People & Population [3]
Disasters [6]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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