Publication Items

EPA Names 31 Areas Not Meeting Fine Particulate Air Standards [1]

These communities will have to come up with plans for reducing fine particle pollution. Is yours one of them?
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [3]
Pollution [4]
Government [5]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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USGS Offers Early Warning On Wildlife Die-Offs [8]

You may find a local wildlife story by keeping your eye on the US Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center which keeps constant surveillance on outbreaks of wildlife disease and posts the information online as it comes in.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [9]
Government [5]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Supreme Court Property Rights Case Has Environmental Implications [10]

The Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Dec. 2, 2009. The case, which started with legal action in 2004, involves a dispute over restoration of a stretch of Florida panhandle beaches damaged by storms.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
People & Population [14]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
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Public [7]
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100s of National Park Sites Threatened by Climate Change [16]

A new report identifies 25 park units considered to be most threatened, but the vulnerability principles spill over to hundreds of additional national park units and other types of natural areas that may be of interest to your audience.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [17]
Natural Resources [18]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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SEJournal Fall 2009, Vol. 19 No. 3 [19]

In this issue: New Journalism-Science Initiatives; Veteran Newspaper Writer Finds Teaching's Hidden Pleasures; Photographers Document and Protect Borderland Environments; Germ Killer, Largely Unregulated, Attracts New Concern for Wildlife; Improve Your Video — Get Good Audio; and more.

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SEJournal Online [20]
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Public [7]
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Do E-Journalists Have a "Document Cloud" in Their Future? [21]

An online compendium of key source documents behind all the big stories seems on its way for future reference from ProPublica, thanks to a Knight News Challenge $719,500 grant.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [22]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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FOIA Not Fixed Yet: Senate Panel [24]

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) says Congress has to do more to fix the Freedom of Information Act — especially stemming the hundreds of special exemptions created by Congress itself.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [22]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [12]
Government [5]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Sen. Schumer Pushes Back Against WH Effort To Weaken Shield Law [25]

A federal law protecting reporters who maintain the confidentiality of their sources is currently stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee as Obama breaks campaign promise.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [22]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [12]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Supreme Court Hears Animal Video Case [26]

Some justices skeptically questioned a 10-year-old law, intended to outlaw "crush videos," making it a criminal offense to possess or publish many depictions of cruelty to animals.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [22]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [12]
Government [5]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Lobbyists Target Hundreds of Billions in Transportation Spending [27]

Congress must once again approve a 6-year plan for transportation funding. Lobbyists on all sides of the issues have already spent about $45 million in just the first half of 2009, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Transportation [28]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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