Publication Items

Feds Open Unclassified Spy Satellite Data on Arctic to Public [1]

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which runs satellites collecting geodata both classified and unclassified, has put up a new Web page with Arctic information. It just went up, and it's as little geeky, but it shows promise for longer-term utility.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [3]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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New Congressional Research Service Reports for Environmental Journos [6]

Congress, you may remember, has exempted itself from the requirements for open government — and that included a ban on publishing taxpayer-funded explainers by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists, you can read them anyway.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [7]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
Asia [12]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about New Congressional Research Service Reports for Environmental Journos [6]
Group Wins Suit To Disclose Fracking in Gulf of Mexico [13]

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents on offshore Gulf fracking, and was refused by two Interior Department offshore drilling agencies, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. CBD sued, and the lawsuit was settled June 2, 2015.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [14]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Fish & Fisheries [15]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
International [19]
Mexico [20]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Need to Know? Eight Reports from the Congressional Research Service [21]

Congress does not release reports done by the Congressional Research Service to the public, even though taxpayers fund them. Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project, you can read them anyway.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [22]
Economy & Business [7]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Natural Resources [23]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [10]
Science [24]
Technology [3]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Need to Know? Eight Reports from the Congressional Research Service [21]
Canadian Public Not Allowed To Know Kinder Morgan Pipeline Emergency Plan [25]

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 [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [26]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Region:
Canada [27]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Committing to Collaboration: How Two Freelancers Pulled Off a Cross-Pacific Partnership [28]

Winnifred Bird and Jane Braxton Little, a former SEJ mentor program pair, describe (with humor!) the process of how they turned their shared interest in the Fukushima disaster's affect on forest ecosystems and rural communities into a successful writing collaboration.

SEJ Publication Types:
Freelance Files [29]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [30]
Forests [31]
Journalism & Media [32]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [10]
Region:
California [33]
Asia [12]
Europe [34]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Foreign Agents May Cloak Environmental Stories [35]

Environmental journalists can find important stories using data about lobbyists registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act to work for foreign firms and governments. The Sunlight Foundation and other groups have compiled some of the information into a searchable online database — a starting point for finding enviro and energy stories.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [7]
Environmental Politics [36]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Region:
International [19]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Foreign Agents May Cloak Environmental Stories [35]
"Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster" [37]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [38]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [22]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Environmental Health [30]
Health [39]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [10]
People & Population [40]
Region:
National (U.S.) [41]
Asia [12]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about "Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster" [37]
"Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos" [42]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [38]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [22]
Environmental Health [30]
Health [39]
Military [43]
People & Population [40]
Planning & Growth [44]
Pollution [16]
Region:
Asia [12]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about "Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos" [42]
Between the Lines: Rain of Steel — Covering the Environment, Health Fallout of Unexploded Ordnance [45]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [38]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [22]
Environmental Health [30]
Health [39]
Military [43]
People & Population [40]
Region:
Asia [12]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Between the Lines: Rain of Steel — Covering the Environment, Health Fallout of Unexploded Ordnance [45]

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