Publication Items

Filming in Parks and Forests: The Alaskan Angle [1]

Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (pictured) has proposed a bill that would (among other things) set a flat $200 annual fee to permit unlimited shooting by small film crews. Now E&E Daily reports Murkowski's filmmaker nephew faced the fees-and-permits barrier when he wanted to shoot near her father's home, surrounded by the Tongass National Forest.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Natural Resources [5]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Alaska and Hawaii [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Feds Raise Fee Barrier to FOIA about Shipbreaking of US Ship Abroad [9]

Maritime historian Jon Ottman has been denied a fee waiver on records he's requested about an aged U.S. Coast Guard cutter that was auctioned to a shipbreaker in Mexico without, he says, being thoroughly checked for toxic and hazardous materials. Photo: America's Queen — Coast Guard Cutter Storis, [10] courtesy US Coast Guard.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Region:
Mexico [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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"Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North" [14]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [16]
Region:
Alaska and Hawaii [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Feds Announce Offshore Oil and Gas Target Areas [17]

Offshore oil and gas drilling from 2012-2017 would be focused in the western and central Gulf of Mexico and off the shores of northern and southern Alaska, if the Dept. of Interior's proposed plan and draft programmatic environmental impact statement, released Nov. 8, 2011, are accepted as is. A 60-day public comment period ends Jan. 9, 2012.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [19]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [21]
Alaska and Hawaii [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Declassified Ice Photos Document Climate Change [22]

The Obama administration releases high-resolution photos, taken by US spy satellites over the years, documenting the extent and quality of arctic sea ice.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [16]
Government [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Alaska and Hawaii [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Alaskan Gas Pipeline: Would-Be Operators Vying For Routes, Funding [24]

The proposed $20-40 billion natural gas pipeline would transport natural gas over 2000 miles from AK's North Slope natural gas reserves to the Midwestern US. Or would it?
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Region:
Canada [25]
National (U.S.) [6]
Alaska and Hawaii [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Projects in 12 States Share Wildfire Funding [26]

$15 million of Stimulus funding for 55 projects, designed to help reduce wildfire hazards and reclaim burned lands, could be of substantial interest in the receiving communities.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [27]
Forests [28]
Government [23]
Region:
Northwest (OR WA) [29]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [30]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [31]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
California [32]
Alaska and Hawaii [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Troubles In Paradise:SEJ Members Study Tropical Ecosystems In Hawai'i [33]

By JENNIFER OLADIPO
SEJ members Joy Horowitz, Erin K.D. Judd, Charlotte Kidd and Jennifer Oladipo were four of seven environmental reporting fellows at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawai'i in May.
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Studies [34]
Region:
Alaska and Hawaii [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Magic Number: a Sketchy "Fact" About Polar Bears Keeps Going...And Going... And Going [35]

By PETER DYKSTRA
When Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced the listing of the polar bear as a threatened species in May, the political trench warfare over global warming flared up anew. Environmental groups professed surprise that a reluctant Bush Administration acted at all. Global warming deniers said the decision was ludicrous. They cited a polar bear population — a five-fold increase since the 1970s, a doubling since the 1950s, a quadrupling since the 1960s.
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [16]
Region:
Alaska and Hawaii [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Groups Sue Interior For Hidden Evidence on Chukchi Lease Sale [36]

Two conservation groups are suing the Interior Department to get hidden documents they say could show the sale would harm polar bears and other marine mammals.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [37]
Region:
Alaska and Hawaii [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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