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Ugandan Farmers Face Climate Adaptation Challenges [1]

Special Report: Part Five

By LISA MEERTS-BRANDSMA

Uganda’s fertile soils and mild climate not only support a rich diversity of flora and fauna, but also allow 80 percent of the country’s land to be under cultivation, and more than 80 percent of its citizens to live as farmers.
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Natural Resources [4]
Region:
Africa [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Adopting Climate Adaptation Messages [7]

Special Report: Part Four

By LEE AHERN

Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Host City for SEJ Conference Maintains Sustainable Attitude [10]

SEJ returns to Chattanooga, Oct. 2-6, for its 23rd annual conference, this time building on and highlighting the city's sustainability theme, which has entered its second generation and garnered worldwide recognition. SEJ President Don Hopey explains.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [12]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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EPA Database Illuminates Ecological Effects of Toxics [13]

Environmental journalists who want to explore the impacts of toxic substances on wildlife, fish, and plants can get help from a little-known EPA database. Online and searchable, ECOTOX has gotten better over the years, making it useful for reporters as well as scientists.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [15]
Chemicals [16]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Interior Probe of Polar-Bear Scientist Buried with Settlement [17]

As efforts to suppress science go, the Interior Department's dunking-stool investigation of scientist Charles Monnett (who published observations that polar bears were drowning because of ice retreat) was quite a story. Now, with a $100,000 settlement, it is a story that may never be fully told, including whether there was evidence of political interference by top Interior officials.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [18]
Science [19]
Government [20]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Corporations Spy on Environmental Nonprofits: Report [21]

The report documents the startling breadth of corporate spying on nonprofit groups that oppose corporate policies — especially environmental groups. Much of the spying is done by contractors using former government security agency employees — and some is done with complicity or help from the FBI or CIA.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [22]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Animal Rights Activist Charged for Video Exposing Cruelty [23]

Reporting on abuse of animals is now officially a crime — at least under Colorado law. Animal-rights activist Taylor Radig was charged after she made public a video showing employees of a Colorado ranch abusing calves.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [24]
Agriculture [2]
Activism [25]
Region:
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [26]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Senate GOPers Seek To Hide Silica Science Funding [27]

OSHA's proposed silica rule "requests" (not requires) that commenters state clearly who paid for any research they cite and declare whether there may be possible conflicts of interest or whether the funder of the research may have influenced its findings. But 16 Senate Republicans have complained of OSHA's request for funding disclosure.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [19]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Health [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Senate GOPers Seek To Hide Silica Science Funding [27]
Find the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of a Plant Near You [31]

Environmental journalists may find a story by asking about the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a nearby coal-burning power plant or major chemical refinery. A new online EPA database gives information about the largest GHG emitters, makes the query easier and the answers more accurate.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [32]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Chemicals [16]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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EPA Fines Company for Withholding Info on Toxic Chromium [33]

A New Jersey chemical company, Elementis Chromium, will have to pay a $2.6 million fine for failing to disclose information about the toxicity of hexavalent chromium to workers, in violation of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [28]
Economy & Business [22]
Chemicals [16]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about EPA Fines Company for Withholding Info on Toxic Chromium [33]

Special Report: Part Five

Special Report: Part Four

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