Publication Items

"The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future" [1]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Natural Resources [5]
People & Population [6]
Technology [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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"Tigers Forever: Saving the World’s Most Endangered Big Cat" [9]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Wildlife [13]
Region:
Asia [14]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Between the Lines: Telling the Tiger’s Story [15]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Wildlife [13]
Region:
Asia [14]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Between the Lines: Telling the Tiger’s Story [15]
PHMSA Won't Disclose Restart Plan for Arkansas Pegasus Pipeline [16]

Exxon had said it was planning to restart the aging pipeline — which was given to seam ruptures — by the end of March. But the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has so far refused requests to make public the restart plan. Elizabeth Douglass wrote about PHMSA's secrecy in InsideClimate News. Photo: The Pegasus pipeline, exposed and suspended in Houston County, 7 miles NW of Crockett, TX, in May 2013. Credit: Safe Community Alliance.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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OIRA Actually Makes Searching for Secret Meetings Easier [20]

For years, under multiple administrations, White House officials have subverted open government by holding illegal "ex parte" meetings with special interests affected by agency rulemakings. The meetings are still secret but now they have made the existing online database of meetings and calls searchable by agency, sub-agency, date range, stage of rulemaking, and regulatory identifier. The catch? You can only search for meetings that happened AFTER April 1, 2014.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [21]
Government [22]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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SEJ Objects to Illegal Military Police Treatment of Toledo Blade Journalists [23]

In a strongly worded April 9, 2014, letter by SEJ Executive Director Beth Parke and SEJ WatchDog Project Director Joseph A. Davis, SEJ urged Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to apologize to the Toledo Blade and direct military employees not to let such illegal actions happen again: Blade journalists Jetta Fraser and Tyrel Linkhorn were detained March 28, 2014 by military police in a public area outside the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio. Fraser was held in handcuffs, and military police threatened sexual violence against her.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [24]
Military [25]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [26]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Capitol Officials Call Reporter's Detention "Isolated", Apologize [27]

U.S. Capitol officials apologized for the brief detention March 28, 2014, of BNA energy reporter Ari Natter, effectively conceding that such incidents should not occur. Apologies came from both Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terry Gainer and Capitol Police Chief Kim C. Dine in separate e-mail responses to an April 8 letter of complaint from SEJ.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [21]
Journalism & Media [24]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [28]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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UPDATE: Capitol Police Chief Responds to SEJ Letter [29]

Capitol Police Chief Kim C. Dine responded April 10, 2014, to SEJ's letter complaining about the brief detention of BNA energy reporter Ari Natter on March 28. In an e-mail, Dine said: "some of the most important things we do is protect the rights of citizens to express themselves and protect the freedom of the press as we go about our duties protecting and serving the legislative process."

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [24]
Region:
National (U.S.) [30]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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UPDATE: SEJ "Condemns" Military Treatment of Blade Reporters [31]

The Society of Environmental Journalists has written Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, condemning "in the strongest terms" the treatment of two Toledo Blade journalists March 28 by military police outside a Lima, Ohio, tank plant. The journalists were on public property when they were detained by military police. Photographer Jetta Fraser's camera was confiscated, even though she was taking pictures of what was in plain public view.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [24]
Military [25]
Region:
National (U.S.) [30]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about UPDATE: SEJ "Condemns" Military Treatment of Blade Reporters [31]
Press, Public Thirsty for Information, But Agencies Turning Off Spigot [32]

People care about the information they get. But the public isn’t getting what it needs from federal and state agencies where, during crisis events and day-to-day operations, agencies work harder at controlling the information that reaches the public than they do at gathering and making it available. Read more from SEJ President Don Hopey.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [33]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [21]
Journalism & Media [24]
People & Population [6]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Press, Public Thirsty for Information, But Agencies Turning Off Spigot [32]

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