Publication Items

1st National Criteria For Sustainable Landscapes Released [1]

The nation's first set of voluntary criteria for planning, design, construction, and maintenance of landscapes.was announced Nov. 6, 2009.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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EPA Develops "Green Home" Site [6]

This new tool is broken out by space type (e.g., kitchen, bathroom, garage, yard), and covers a wide range of indoor and outdoor energy, toxicity, consumption, and environmental impact issues — even topics such as finding a greener mortgage.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [3]
Government [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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CO2 Emissions Rise in Most States, But Some Buck Trend [8]

Carbon dioxide emission volumes, trends, and sources vary substantially by state, according to a report released Nov. 12, 2009, by the advocacy group Environment America.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [9]
Pollution [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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4 Years, 500 Lakes, and A Lot of Polluted Fish: New EPA Study [11]

Results of sampling the tissue of fish caught in freshwater lakes throughout the US reveal widespread contamination by pollutants such as mercury and PCBs.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Fish & Fisheries [12]
Chemicals [13]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [14]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Toolbox: Google Scholar Opens Science to Everybody — Almost [15]

A new tool makes finding, understanding, and communicating science easier for environmental reporters.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [17]
Technology [18]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Toolbox: Google Scholar Opens Science to Everybody — Almost [15]
Toolbox: Zippy Access to EPA Data on Sites in Your Community [19]

Environmental journalists working for local news media outlets may want to check out the EPA ZIP code lookup tool for discovering potential stories in their areas.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Journalism & Media [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Toolbox: Zippy Access to EPA Data on Sites in Your Community [19]
Congress Clears, Obama Signs Open FOIA Act [21]

From now on, Congress must specifically declare every new FOIA exemption it creates by law.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Watchdog Groups Call for Improvements in Contractor Misconduct Database [22]

The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) and OMB Watch want the federal government to tighten the accountability of federal contractors by fixing problems with the database — a potentially valuable tool for environmental reporters.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [23]
Consumer [24]
Health [25]
Government [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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SEJ Joins Call for End to "Minders," Interview-Control at FDA [26]

As USA TODAY exposes a culture of secrecy at FDA that caused schoolkids in several states to get sick because the FDA hid information about tainted tortillas, SEJ and other journalism groups insist FDA ends restrictions on staff interviews with press.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Journalism & Media [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about SEJ Joins Call for End to "Minders," Interview-Control at FDA [26]
The Psychology of Climate Change Communication [27]

The Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University has published a free, research-based guide for "Scientists, Journalists, Educators, Political Aides, and the Interested Public."
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [28]
Journalism & Media [20]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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