Publication Items

Enviros Seek Disclosure of Household Cleaning Product Ingredients [1]

A court case involving a 1971 NY law may force manufacturers to make public unlisted toxic chemicals in products like stain remover, dish soap and laundry detergent. The cleanser industry says the action is "unwarranted, and that fears about health risks are misinformed," according to the AP.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Getting to Disclosure: SPJ Offers FOIA Negotiating Tips [9]

An Online Quill article by David Cuillier offers advice from William Ury, co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and co-author of “Getting to Yes,” to effectively help reporters move from defeatism to successful disclosure.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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EPA Reveals More High-Hazard Coal-Ash Sites [12]

Disclosure of 22 electric-utility plans for handling coal-ash waste is a good start... but EPA also released the identities of some 40 more — previously undisclosed — scary ash impoundments.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [13]
Waste [14]
Government [10]
Environmental Health [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Sunshine Week Starts March 14 with Focus on Local Heroes [15]

Journalism groups, including key organizer American Society of News Editors, will honor individuals whose open-government work in 2009 has made their communities better places to live.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Feb. 16 Briefing Helps Prep for Release of New US Ocean Policy [16]

RSVP by 4:00 p.m. February 12, 2010, to learn about the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force's proposed marine spatial planning framework for coordinating many ocean and coastal activities by multiple agencies and actors.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Government [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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MIT Crowdsources "Landmen" Reports on Oil, Natural Gas Agents [20]

Billed as "a resource to support citizens negotiating with big energy," this brand new Center for Future Civic Media service could become a useful tool for energy and environment reporting.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [13]
Natural Resources [21]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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100s of New Federal Datasets Released, Many Environmental [22]

Environmental reporters who use databases to find and build stories have a fresh windfall, including three new datasets from EPA, plus many others relevant to the EJ beat.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Study Shows Managed Turf Is Net Greenhouse Gas Loser [23]

A study by Univ. of California-Irvine researchers has found that while grass itself acted as a carbon sink, when other factors are taken into account — fuel burned to maintain the lawn, emissions from fertilizer spread to help it grow, etc. — four times as much carbon was emitted than was absorbed.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [24]
Science [25]
Environmental Health [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Feds Ready To Designate Bald Eagles As "Recovered" [26]

After intense recovery efforts resulting in an increase from ~400 nesting pairs in 1963 to the current count of >7,000, the bald eagle may soon be removed from the USFWS list of endangered and threatened species, with monitoring ongoing for at least five more years.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [27]
Government [10]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Recovering Eagles Flock to U.S. in Winter [28]

This a good time to report on the fate of the bald eagle; the National Wildlife Federation provides a couple of lists that pinpoint at least one spot in every state except Hawaii where the big birds can typically be found.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [27]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Recovering Eagles Flock to U.S. in Winter [28]

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