Publication Items

FDA Mulls Putting Public's Health Above Companies' Trade Secrets [1]

NYT: "The goal is to open up a system in which the agency failed to inform the public that a widely prescribed heartburn drug was especially toxic to babies; that a diabetes medicine and a painkiller increased heart attack risks; and that antidepressants increased suicidal thoughts and behavior in children and teenagers."
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Health [4]
Government [5]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Obama Openness Promise Still Unfulfilled at MSHA [8]

The Mine Safety and Health Administration still denies FOIA requests, including one filed in Oct. 2008 by mine safety attorney Tony Oppegard for some witness statements.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [9]
Government [5]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Obama Openness Promise Still Unfulfilled at MSHA [8]
New Jersey DEP Proposes Gag Order on Science Info [10]

The Newark Star-Ledger reports a move by a top New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection official to prevent public disclosure of scientific information that should be public until political appointees without science credentials and press officers have approved it.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Government [5]
Science [11]
Region:
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [12]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Old-Fashioned Reporting Turns Good Stories to Gold [13]

By MIKE DUNNE

Two members of the Society of Environmental Journalists honored recently for their investigative reporting efforts say that digging through records and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting helped them make good stories great.

Ken Ward Jr. of The Charleston Gazette was the winner of the Scripps Howard Edward Meeman Award for environmental reporting – the third time he was so honored. His winning work focused on a coal silo permit that should not have been issued and was revoked thanks to his reporting.
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [14]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Climate-Change Skeptics In Europe? Mostly Missing In Action [15]

By PAUL D. THACKER
Where are the global warming skeptics in Europe?

If you canvas a wide variety of news (what journalist doesn't?) and read some newspapers in Europe, you'll notice something about their coverage of global warming: no skeptics. That's right. The media coverage of high-profile global warming skeptics is pretty much an American phenomenon, according to some noted journalists who cover the issue outside the United States.
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [16]
Region:
International [17]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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The Beat: Leaking Gas Tanks And Chemical Pollution Are Common Focus [18]

Ever wonder what lies beneath your feet – what's down there in the ground on which we walk? The Toledo Blade's Tom Henry has an editor who asked that question and the result was an interesting look at what the government is doing – or not doing – to clean up gasoline spills from leaky underground tanks.

Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Pollution [19]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Book Shelf, Book 3- The River Of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey [20]

Teddy's luckless, little-known trip makes a riveting tale

THE RIVER OF DOUBT: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S DARKEST JOURNEY
By Candice Millard
Doubledy, $26
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [14]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Book Shelf, Book 3- The River Of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey [20]
Book Shelf, Book 2- The Winds Of Change: Climate, Weather, And The Destruction Of Civilization [21]

Climate change scientist paints a stark and vivid picture

THE WINDS OF CHANGE: CLIMATE, WEATHER AND THE DESTRUCTION OF CIVILIZATIONS By Eugene Linden
Simon & Schuster, $26
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [16]
Fish & Fisheries [22]
Economy & Business [23]
Consumer [24]
Disasters [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Studies [27]
Food [28]
Forests [29]
Health [4]
Government [5]
Environmental Politics [30]
Journalism & Media [14]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Book Shelf, Book 2- The Winds Of Change: Climate, Weather, And The Destruction Of Civilization [21]
Book Shelf, Book 1 - Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People And The Environment [31]

Exploring the legacy of dams and human delusions of grandeur

DEEP WATER: THE EPIC STRUGGLE OVER DAMS, DISPLACED PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT Jacques Leslie
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, $15.75

Reviewed by NANCY BAZILCHUK
A dam may not be forever, even if constructions like the Hoover Dam are expected to survive for a thousand years. A dam's environmental and social impacts, though, are enormous, extensive and essentially irreversible.
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [32]
Journalism & Media [14]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Book Shelf, Book 1 - Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People And The Environment [31]
From Environmental Fiction to Top Investigative Awards [33]

By JACKLEEN de La HARPE

Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [14]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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