Publication Items

New Orleans Retreat Examines SEJ Mission in These Difficult Times [1]

SEJ's strategic planning retreat started with gumbo ya-ya and ended with new vision and mission statements, and new marching orders for our almost- 20-year-old organization. Read more from SEJ President Christy George.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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SEJournal Summer 2009, Vol.19 No. 2 [6]

In this issue: Journalism "missteps" examined; students tweet Montana pollution trial; enviro stories snatch national awards, and much more.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [7]
Topics on the Beat:
Other or All [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Alaskan Gas Pipeline: Would-Be Operators Vying For Routes, Funding [9]

The proposed $20-40 billion natural gas pipeline would transport natural gas over 2000 miles from AK's North Slope natural gas reserves to the Midwestern US. Or would it?
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Region:
Canada [13]
National (U.S.) [4]
Alaska and Hawaii [14]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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NOAA Fishery Advisers Have New Look [15]

If you report for a coastal region where fisheries are important, it's a good time to investigate the membership makeup of your regional Fishery Management Council.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Fish & Fisheries [16]
Government [17]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Feds Focus on 24 Solar Sites in 6 Western States [18]

Good solar potential, relative proximity to existing or potential energy transmission corridors, and the perception of the fewest conflicts with existing land uses and the natural environment were factors in site selection.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [19]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Government [17]
Region:
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [20]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [21]
California [22]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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EPA: Most US Residents Exposed to Excessive Air Pollution Risk [23]

While it does have limitations, the updated National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment offers risk estimates for each of 180 substances, and three separate combined assessments.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [24]
Pollution [25]
People & Population [26]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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The Devastation Ran Clear Down to Plaquemines [27]

By Amy Wold

Two days after Hurricane Katrina, my editor called me over to his desk and pointed to a place on the map below New Orleans. He said, "Try to get somewhere in this area."

At the time there were four adults, two dogs and two children (some of whom were New Orleans evacuees) staying in my onebedroom home so getting "somewhere in this area" sounded like a really good idea.
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [28]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [29]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Lake Charles Newspaper Staff Persists Against Rita's Fury [30]

By JEREMY HARPER
When I went to sleep Wednesday, Sept. 21, Hurricane Rita was threatening the Texas coast, promising to pester Louisiana with no more than a quick bout of tropical storm conditions. I was prepared to ride out the fringe of the storm in either my apartment on the second floor of a sturdy historic building in downtown Lake Charles, La., a city of 75,000 about 40 miles inland of the Gulf of Mexico, or in the newsroom of the American Press, the city's daily newspaper where I have worked for four years as a reporter.
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [28]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [29]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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'Carbon Black' Report Shows Impacts On Native Americans [31]

By MIKE DUNNE

An effort to document the lives of Oklahoma Indians introduced reporter Vicki Monks to a story that begged to be told: how a carbon black plant affected the health of a neighboring Ponca Indian community.

Carbon black, made by the burning of waste oil, is used primarily to strengthen the rubber in tires.
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [25]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Rockefeller Introduces Bill To Outlaw Bayer Chem-Secrecy Ruse [32]

Rockefeller's bill keeps FOIA exemptions for real security information, but forbids using the "sensitive security information" stamp.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [33]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [34]
Disasters [28]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [36]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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