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New Arizona Law Limits Disclosure of Companies' Environmental Self-Audits [1]

The information would still have to be provided to the state. Companies would not gain immunity from enforcement merely by auditing themselves.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [5]
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Public [6]
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"Burning Rivers: Revival of Four Urban-Industrial Rivers That Caught on Fire" [7]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [9]
Disasters [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [12]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about "Burning Rivers: Revival of Four Urban-Industrial Rivers That Caught on Fire" [7]
Iowa Outlaws Some Undercover Investigations As Other States Mull Bills [13]

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (pictured) signed the so-called "Ag Gag" bill into law March 2, 2012, making it a crime to obtain access to an agricultural facility "under false pretenses" — without defining "false pretenses." Does this apply to hidden cameras? Animal rights activists have often resorted to hidden cameras — and shared with news media photos and videos of shocking cruelty to animals.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [14]
Government [15]
Region:
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [16]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Va. Supreme Court Denies Cuccinelli Access to Climate Scientist Emails [17]

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R, pictured at left), who avows himself a global warming skeptic, had sought from the University of Virginia grant applications by former U.Va. climate scientist Michael Mann, creator of the "hockey stick" graph, and emails between Mann and other scientists.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [3]
Climate Change [18]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [19]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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SEJ’s 2011 Annual Conference in Miami Achieves Many Firsts, Setting New Standard [20]

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By JAY LETTO

The Miami extravaganza was easily SEJ’s most ambitious annual conference ever. The star-studded Wednesday evening opening reception set the stage for a whirlwind of activity and news-making field trips and presentations that kept members running and writing till they collapsed Sunday morning at the peaceful Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.
SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [21]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
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Public [6]
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Despite High Court, Navy Keeps WA Town in Dark on Explosion Threat [23]

A landmark Supreme Court decision awarded Port Townsend residents the right to know about the potential location of explosives on the Indian Island Naval Magazine near their town. After losing the case, the Defense Department bolstered its legal grounds for secrecy by asking Congress to slip into the 2012 Defense Authorization an amendment creating a new statutory exemption to FOIA for the DOD.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Military [24]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Disasters [10]
Region:
Northwest (OR WA) [25]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Miami According to Helvarg [26]

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SEJ News [21]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Documerica, Lost and Found [27]

Read about EPA's long dormant photojournalism project containing thousands of color photographs depicting a nation and its environmental problems in the early 1970s — and the new State of the Environment Photo Project this rediscovery has spawned, inviting participants worldwide to submit their work. By SEJournal photo editor Roger Archibald.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [29]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [14]
Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [31]
Region:
National (U.S.) [32]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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SacBee Wins Access to Forest-Fire Documents [33]

A federal judge ruled that once the documents — depositions of US Forest Service employees about a 2007 forest fire in California that burned tens of thousands of acres — had been entered into court records as part of the evidence discovery process, they were presumptively public records and had to remain that way.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Forests [34]
Disasters [10]
Region:
California [35]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about SacBee Wins Access to Forest-Fire Documents [33]
Obama Vows Disclosure of Toxic Fracking Secrets on Federal Land [36]

Most current fracking operations happen on non-federal lands. But on federal lands, things are different — Obama intends to require disclosure of fluids as a condition of new leases for fracking on federal lands. If it takes place, this could push the ingredient lists further into the open.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [11]
Pollution [37]
Health [38]
Environmental Politics [39]
Energy & Fuel [40]
Chemicals [9]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [41]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [19]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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