Publication Items

"There Is Still Time: To Look at the Big Picture...and Act" [1]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Natural Resources [4]
People & Population [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Newly Leaked: CRS Explainers To Help Environmental Journalists [7]

The Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy publishes leaked copies of Congressional Research Service research papers. Here are a few recent ones of use to environmental journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [9]
Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Health [12]
Technology [13]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Investigative Journalism Lives! — CMD Exposes GOP on Clean Air Plan [14]

Patience, attention to detail, and public-records requests can still get you a bombshell story on the environmental beat. One recently tied coal and oil company megabucks to Republican attorneys general challenging the Clean Power Plan (CPP) in court.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [15]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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What Congress Won't Let You Read: Latest CRS Explainers Leaked [16]

The Congressional Research Service produces expert nonpartisan backgrounders on many subjects of interest to environment and energy journalists. But Congress won't release them. Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, you can read them now.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [9]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [17]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [20]
Transportation [21]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about What Congress Won't Let You Read: Latest CRS Explainers Leaked [16]
Between the Lines: Collaborators in the Chronicling of Destruction and Hope [22]

For the latest installment of Between the Lines, an author Q & A, SEJournal book editor Tom Henry interviewed award-winning children’s nature book author Lynne Cherry, best known for“The Great Kapok Tree,” which sold more than a million copies and became a staple in elementary schools. Cherry speaks about her career, as well as her longstanding collaboration with the late Gary Braasch, a renowned photojournalist and past SEJ member who passed away March 7 [23].

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Journalism & Media [24]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Between the Lines: Collaborators in the Chronicling of Destruction and Hope [22]
Reporters Mine a Rich Vein of Who Knew What, When, on Climate [25]

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [15]
Science [27]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Reporters Mine a Rich Vein of Who Knew What, When, on Climate [25]
House GOPers in Standoff with State AGs Over Exxon Climate Probe Docs [28]

Transparency is at the core of an escalating confrontation between House Republicans and some state Attorney Generals over Exxon's support for climate change denial. The AGs in July defied a subpoena from the House Science Committee, chaired by Lamar Smith (R-TX, pictured).

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about House GOPers in Standoff with State AGs Over Exxon Climate Probe Docs [28]
Scientists Critique Media Reports on Climate [29]

Yale Climate Connections' Bud Ward reports on the Climate Feedback project, which scores articles and columns for accuracy, logic and reasoning, fairness, objectivity and precision.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [30]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Journalism & Media [24]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Scientists Critique Media Reports on Climate [29]
Court Docs in Bankruptcy Disclose Peabody Funding of Climate Denial [31]

Peabody, the documents show, funded at least two dozen groups that sowed doubt about whether climate change is caused by human emissions and that opposed regulating climate emissions. Most of that funding had been kept secret until now.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [20]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Court Docs in Bankruptcy Disclose Peabody Funding of Climate Denial [31]
Leaked Again: Secret CRS Reports for Environment Beat [32]

Here are the latest leaked explainers, written by the Congressional Research Service, that may be of use to environmental journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [17]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Transportation [21]
Water & Oceans [33]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Leaked Again: Secret CRS Reports for Environment Beat [32]

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