Publication Items

Sunshine Events, Standing Rock, FERC and Pruitt [1]

It's Sunshine Week, and open government events are scheduled around the United States. This month's WatchDog TipSheet has a rundown, plus news on SEJ concerns over restrictions to press access at FERC meetings, on a 7,564-page FOIA email dump on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and more.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Journalism & Media [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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Reporting Science, Side-by-Side with the Scientists [11]

An award-winning radio series takes us along for the ride as reporter and editor work to cover the cutting edge of climate change research. Inside Story interviews the pair to explore not only how they pulled the package together, but also how you can advance your own reporting, working directly with scientists in the field.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [13]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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Sundance Festival a Megaphone for Climate Concerns [14]

For the first time, Sundance Film Festival spotlighted a single theme, and it was climate change. Documentaries highlighting the issue including a sequel to Al Gore's blockbuster, as well as more than a dozen other films dealing with issues like coral reefs, recyling, changing landscapes and rainforest destruction.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [16]
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Fish & Fisheries [17]
Forests [18]
Natural Resources [19]
People & Population [20]
Policy [21]
Waste [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Wildlife [24]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
Alaska and Hawaii [25]
California [26]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [27]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [28]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
International [30]
Mexico [31]
Africa [32]
Australia & Oceania [33]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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Veteran Reporters Say Ignore the Noise, and Localize [34]

Environmental journalists at a day-long event [35] urged colleagues to report on the real, local impacts of policy, more than on the buzz around the policy. On hand at the SEJ-sponsored program were representatives of administrations past and present, including Trump EPA transition team head Myron Ebell (shown).

Videos:

Tracy Mehan lll, American Water Works Association [36]
Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute [37]
Ed Maibach, George Mason University [38]
Scott Segal, Policy Resolution Group and Bracewell LLP [39]
Bob Perciasepe, Center for Climate & Energy Solutions [40]
Environmental advocates [41]
Journalists panel [42]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [43]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [44]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [45]
Government [7]
Health [46]
Journalism & Media [8]
Laws & Regulations [47]
Policy [21]
Pollution [48]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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Enviro, Energy Reporters Look at Prospects for Beat in 2017 [49]

Veteran journalists gathered in Washington, D.C. last Friday, Feb. 3, to share insights into how environment and energy policy may unfold in the year ahead — and to urge colleagues to prepare for possibly dramatic shifts ahead. Key takeaways, plus video, audio clips and a presentation by SEJ's president. Photo: Washington Post reporter Daryl Fears; courtesy of Schuyler Null/Wilson Center.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [43]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [50]
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [8]
Laws & Regulations [47]
Natural Resources [19]
Policy [21]
Science [51]
Water & Oceans [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [30]
Asia [52]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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Turbulent Prospects on Environment-Energy Beat Likely in Trump Era [53]

While it's too soon to tell what the new Trump administration and 115th Congress will do, our special report suggests we may see a groundswell of environmental deregulation and massive energy development. Backgrounder looks at the top 10 energy-environment issues to watch in the President Trump era.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [54]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [55]
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [56]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Laws & Regulations [47]
Natural Resources [19]
Policy [21]
Pollution [48]
Science [51]
Transportation [57]
Waste [22]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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The Battle Over Science Integrity, Funding Begins [58]

President Trump's characterization of climate change as a Chinese "hoax" and flirtations with the anti-vaccine movement have led many to conclude that he and his GOP allies are anti-science. A look at scientific integrity and funding in the new administration.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [59]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [45]
Government [7]
Health [46]
Laws & Regulations [47]
Science [51]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [30]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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Could Trump 'Cancel' Paris Climate Deal? [60]

President Trump said on the campaign trail that he would "cancel" the Paris climate agreement. But could he really wreck the treaty? Or are other nations — and our own — already too far down the road to fully undermine the international pact? TipSheet takes a closer look.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [59]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Laws & Regulations [47]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
International [30]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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Coal Leasing on Federal Lands [61]

While resurrecting the declining U.S. coal industry, as promised by the new administration, is probably not possible, it may not stop a lifting of the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands. TipSheet looks at how the issue moved front and center, and whether the move would help coal country.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [59]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [56]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Health [46]
Laws & Regulations [47]
Natural Resources [19]
Policy [21]
Pollution [48]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [62]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [63]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [28]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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Pipelines and Energy Infrastructure Pose Conflict [64]

Oil pipelines like the Keystone XL and Dakota Access are back at the center of a political firestorm, with a new executive order from President Trump just a few days into his new administration giving them the go-ahead. But it's just the beginning — many other pipelines, for both gas and oil, have been proposed.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [59]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [47]
Transportation [57]
Region:
National (U.S.) [9]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [27]
Canada [65]
Visibility:
Public [10]
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