Publication Items

"Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation" [1]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Health [4]
Pollution [5]
Region:
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Global Environmental Issues, Journalism Star at Sundance [8]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [10]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Elephant Wrangling on the Energy Beat [11]

More than one observer has compared covering energy to the folk tale about the blind men who try to describe an elephant, and end up shouting at each other because they’ve each grasped a different part of the beast and believe their portion represents the whole thing. Freelancer Jennifer Weeks reports.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [15]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Changing the Language of Climate Change [16]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [17]
Journalism & Media [10]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Covering Climate: Are Journalists up to the Task? More Important — Is Journalism? [18]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [17]
Journalism & Media [10]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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State 'Ag-Gag' Laws Spreading, Protect Misdeeds from Scrutiny [19]

While a Tennessee governor vetoed "ag-gag" legislation in that state, bills criminalizing the collection of information about abuses in livestock operations are still being pushed in other states — and the mechanism may be extended to stifle reporting on other environmental abuses.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [20]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [21]
Agriculture [22]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Canadian Info Watchdog Probes Harper Govt's Muzzling of Scientists [25]

Canada's Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault will be investigating the muzzling of Canadian scientists — a perennial complaint of SEJ's Canadian members who can not freely interview tax-funded scientists about subjects like climate. SEJ has twice urged Environment Canada to end such media policies, receiving no answer.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [20]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [26]
Government [27]
Region:
Canada [28]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Secret White House Review Paralyzes Chemical Safety [29]

An EPA initiative to protect American consumers from toxic chemicals, especially endocrine disruptors, has run into a brick wall put up by the Obama White House three years ago due to secret urging of the chemical industry — even though the law requires information and arguments on which federal regulations are based to be open and on the record.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [20]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [21]
Environmental Politics [14]
Consumer [30]
Chemicals [3]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Obama Admin Says It Won't Charge Reporters with Conspiracy to Commit Journalism [31]

In the wake of the Justice Department's chilling seizure of AP phone records, the Department asserted that a Fox reporter violated the law by reporting the news. The unprecedented assertion was made by FBI agent Reginald B. Reyes in a search warrant application that was ultimately approved by a judge, allowing Reyes to snoop through the phone records of Fox News correspondent James Rosen.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [20]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [21]
Journalism & Media [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Covering Sprawl, Science, and Chickens [32]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [33]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [22]
Disasters [34]
Journalism & Media [10]
People & Population [35]
Planning & Growth [36]
Science [26]
Water & Oceans [37]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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