Publication Items

"Wonder" Helps Speed Pattern Recognition [1]

When assessing an environmental issue, it may be useful and appropriate to evaluate its links with human deaths and illnesses.
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TipSheet [2]
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Journalism & Media [3]
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National (U.S.) [4]
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"Red, White, and...Green?" Eco Wine Tastes Like a Good Story [6]

For many reporters, eco wine can be an intensely local story. While not every state has vineyards, viticulture has spread way beyond California in recent decades.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Food [7]
Pollution [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Journalism & Media [3]
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National (U.S.) [4]
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Public [5]
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EPA Libraries Open Doors [10]

EPA reopened five libraries September 30, 2008, after fighting its own scientists, enforcement lawyers, open-information groups, and eventually Congress for two years in an unsuccessful effort to keep them closed.
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WatchDog TipSheet [11]
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Government [12]
Journalism & Media [3]
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National (U.S.) [4]
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Public [5]
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House Panel Probes Political Censorship of Science at EPA [13]

More details of White House efforts to silence science at EPA emerged at a September 18, 2008, hearing of a House Energy investigations panel.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
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Public [5]
- Read more about House Panel Probes Political Censorship of Science at EPA [13]
Follow the Money: Oil and Coal Edition [15]

Deep Throat's advice was never more needed: "Follow the money." Those reporters who want to follow Deep Throat's advice now have tools undreamed of in Woodward and Bernstein's hey-day.
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WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [16]
Journalism & Media [3]
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National (U.S.) [4]
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Public [5]
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More Tools for Covering Capitol Hill — From Outside the Beltway [17]

Reporters on "Main Street" need not feel hindered in covering action on Capitol Hill. Here are more tools for Outside-the-Beltway reporters who want to keep an eye on Congress.
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WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
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Public [5]
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UCS to Release Agency Media Policies Study in October [18]

A forthcoming report by the Union of Concerned Scientists — expected the second week of October 2008 — will provide the most extensive documentation to date of federal agency press policies and their impact on environmental reporting.
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WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
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Public [5]
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TOOLBOX: Online Sources for Researching Medical Literature [19]

A useful roundup of links and leads for reporters researching the published literature on medical and some environmental health topics is available online at LLRX.com.
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WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [20]
Journalism & Media [3]
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National (U.S.) [4]
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Public [5]
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Agency FOIA Logs Posted on Watchdog Site [21]

The FOIA logs of agencies covered by environmental reporters offer fascinating insight into their workings — and some good story ideas.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Agency FOIA Logs Posted on Watchdog Site [21]
Proposed Fisheries Rule Would Cut Public Input, Info [22]

Reporters trying to cover fisheries issues may soon find decisions happening faster than they can cover them.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Proposed Fisheries Rule Would Cut Public Input, Info [22]

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