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Shark Week To Trigger Media Feeding Frenzy July 31 [1]

Shark Week may once have been an effort to relive "Jaws" — but in more recent years Discovery has used the event as a chance to educate the public about sharks, build awareness of the threats they face, and explain the need to conserve them.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
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Public [5]
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EPA To Issue Long Overdue Standards for Oil & Gas Facilities [6]

Two and a half years after being sued, EPA is under a twice-extended court deadline to release by July 28, 2011, proposed standards which will address air toxics from oil production facilities and natural gas production, processing, transmission, and storage facilities.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [7]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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EPA May Finally Release Final Ozone Standards [9]

The standards were initially scheduled to be released in August 2010, then October 2010, after EPA determined that the ones approved during the George W. Bush administration weren't grounded in science, didn't protect public health with an adequate margin of safety, and didn't protect the environment.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [10]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Health [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Air [13]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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EPA Vows To Improve IRIS Toxic Effects Database [14]

The more transparent Integrated Risk Information System would have shorter and clearer effects of hazard assessments and use more graphics and tables to present the data.
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WatchDog TipSheet [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Chemicals [16]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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NOAA Rule Aims To Silence Sea Grant Advocacy [17]

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility petitioned NOAA to reverse its no-advocacy policy, saying it's inconsistent with the agency's official scientific integrity policy and the Obama administration's much-vaunted advocacy of more openness in federal government.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [4]
Policy [18]
Government [19]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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EPA Proposes Expanding Scope of TRI to Additional Industries [20]

The new industries would be Iron Ore Mining, Phosphate Mining, Municipal Waste Incineration, Industrial Dry Cleaning, Petroleum Bulk Storage, and Steam-Only Production from Fossil Fuels.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [10]
Economy & Business [21]
Chemicals [16]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Press Fotogs Sue DHS Over Laptop, Camera Seizures [22]

A U.S. District judge heard oral arguments July 8, 2011 on a DHS motion to dismiss the case, brought by the National Press Photographers Association, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [23]
Government [19]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Defiant Murdoch E-Tab To Judge: Nuts To Pulling BP Deposition [24]

U.S. Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan of the Eastern District of Louisiana ordered iPad-only publication The Daily to remove the deposition, by former BP CEO Tony Hayward in the Gulf oil spill lawsuit, because it had not been published with her permission.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [7]
Journalism & Media [23]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Central U.S. Is Home to Miscanthus Biomass Crop Projects [25]

The US Dept. of Agriculture is providing financial support for farmers to grow the grass in four project areas in four states. The goal is to substantially increase production of the crop, and USDA estimates about 4,000 jobs will be created.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [8]
Agriculture [26]
Region:
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [27]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
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Public [5]
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Feds and Private Sector Funding Major Solar Panel Projects [31]

Project Amp, expected to lead to the installation of photovoltaic solar panels on about 750 industrial buildings in 28 states, would feed enough energy to the grid to power 90,000-100,000 homes. Taking a different approach, Google and a company called SolarCity are teaming up to spur installation of solar panels to power individual homes, committing $280 million to the project.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [19]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Economy & Business [21]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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