Publication Items

Controversial Newspaper Campaign Takes on Climate ‘Fatalism’ [1]

The Guardian's James Randerson explains how his newspaper came to launch its 'Keep it in the Ground' campaign, backing the global fossil fuel divestment movement — and how, rather than constraining the paper journalistically, the project provided a connection to readers that goes far beyond a click on a website.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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SEJournal Summer/Fall 2015, Vol. 25 No. 2/3 [8]

In this issue: SEJ prez Jeff Burnside's take on SEJ's 25th annual conference; SEJ's founders on our impact on environmental journalism; a controversial newspaper campaign takes on climate ‘fatalism'; the art of the pitch; turning a scientist’s struggle into a lyrical, multimedia tale; how interview class helps make science clearer; an iconic author and former farmer, plants seeds for a ‘more attractive’ world; book reviews on India’s natural world in crisis, the fracking boom and discoveries in the ancient Southwest.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [9]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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"The Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power" [10]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [5]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [12]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Secret Reports to Congress — Revealed for Environmental Reporters [13]

New expert background reports of interest to environmental journalists and the public have been published by the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [5]
Natural Resources [15]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Region:
National (U.S.) [18]
California [19]
Africa [20]
Antarctica & Arctic [21]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Feds Open Unclassified Spy Satellite Data on Arctic to Public [22]

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 [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [23]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [21]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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FOIA'd E-Mails Open Window on GMO Lobbying by Academics [24]

Investigative reporting in the environmental area depends on the Freedom of Information Act. The latest exposé on GMO lobbying in the New York Times by double-Pulitzer-winner Eric Lipton is a good example.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [25]
Economy & Business [4]
Food [26]
Technology [23]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Settlement Sets Disclosure on Decade-old Gulf Oil Leak [27]

You'd think there shouldn't be such a thing as a secret oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier this year, the Associated Press uncovered an offshore well in the Gulf that had been leaking for a decade. Now — thanks to a lawsuit from environmentalists — the details will be revealed.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [28]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [29]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [17]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Food Industry Heavyweights Spend Big To Lobby Against Transparency [33]

The battleground over transparency on food origins and ingredients is much wider than labeling of foods that contain genetically modified ingredients, as journalist Elizabeth Grossman points out in a recent piece in Civil Eats.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Consumer [34]
Food [26]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Food Safety Group Sues Ag Department for FOIA'd Records on GMO Crops [36]

The Center for Food Safety has sued the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under the Freedom of Information Act for withholding information on genetically modified crops (GMOs), after unsuccessfully seeking information over a period of 13 years.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [25]
Environmental Health [37]
Food [26]
Health [38]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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CAMEO Still Making Appearance as First Responders Face Hazmats [39]

CAMEO is a free and publicly available suite of applications useful to reporters. Developed by the U.S. EPA and NOAA, it includes information about the hazards of various chemicals, as well as map overlays that may show how close a spill site is to the nearest facility of interest, such as a nursery school or retirement home.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [28]
Technology [23]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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