Publication Items

Lake Charles Newspaper Staff Persists Against Rita's Fury [1]

By JEREMY HARPER
When I went to sleep Wednesday, Sept. 21, Hurricane Rita was threatening the Texas coast, promising to pester Louisiana with no more than a quick bout of tropical storm conditions. I was prepared to ride out the fringe of the storm in either my apartment on the second floor of a sturdy historic building in downtown Lake Charles, La., a city of 75,000 about 40 miles inland of the Gulf of Mexico, or in the newsroom of the American Press, the city's daily newspaper where I have worked for four years as a reporter.
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [2]
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Coal-Waste Impoundment Database Offers Journalists a Tool [5]

A cooperative effort of federal and state agencies, coal companies, and environmental groups, the database lists coal-waste impoundments in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [6]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [7]
Pollution [8]
Waste [9]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [10]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [3]
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Public [4]
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Beach Nourishment: Supreme Court To Decide Who Owns the New Sand [12]

When governments or communities pay to replenish beaches along privately owned beachfront property — or create new beaches by trucking in sand — what does that mean for the landowners' waterfront rights and property value?
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Military [17]
People & Population [18]
Region:
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [3]
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Public [4]
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Two Agencies Hide Neglect of Coal-Dam Safety with Secrecy [20]

US EPA and Army Corps of Engineers say they "cannot make the list of 'high hazard' coal ash impoundment sites public," even though risk to communities exists -- like the December 2008 pond failure at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [6]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [21]
Disasters [2]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Government [22]
Region:
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [3]
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Public [4]
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Troubling Predictions Come True For Reporter And Friends [23]

By KATINA GAUDET
"We have a different fear of hurricanes."

My friend Yasmin was trying to rationalize her fearlessness in the face of an imposing Hurricane Katrina, expected to make landfall near New Orleans the next day, from her first-floor Uptown apartment.

But I was having difficulty, although safe in a hotel room near Memphis. I was frantic, yelling into the phone at Yasmin, "You cannot stay there."
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [2]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [3]
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Public [4]
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Book Shelf, Book 3- America's Wetland: Louisiana' s Vanishing Coast [24]

AMERICA'S WETLAND: LOUISIANA'S VANISHING COAST
Photographs by Bevil Knapp, text by Mike Dunne Louisiana State
University Press, $39.95
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [25]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [3]
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Public [4]
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New Trails Are in 13 States [26]

Twenty-two new National Recreational Trails, covering more than 525 miles, provide a good opportunity to cover outdoor recreation topics.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [14]
Natural Resources [27]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [10]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [28]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
California [30]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [31]
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Public [4]
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New Tool Available For Localizing Coal Ash Controversy [32]

A new map and report by the Center for Public Integrity make it easier to pinpoint exact locations of coal-ash deposits, a waste product of coal-fired power plants.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [2]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Pollution [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [3]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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It's Hurricane Prime-Time in Gulf and Atlantic States [33]

The next 6 weeks or so will see the peak of the hurricane season along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [16]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [10]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [3]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Top 10 Endangered Southern Areas [34]

The Southern Environmental Law Center's top 10 places in America's South that face "immediate, potentially irreparable threats in 2009" represent a cross-section of the major environmental issues facing these states.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [14]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Forests [35]
Natural Resources [27]
Transportation [36]
Water & Oceans [16]
Biodiversity [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [10]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [3]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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