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SEJournal Fall 2008, Vol. 18 No. 3 [1]

In this issue: Bringing Rachel Carson to the Silver Screen; The Environment Plays in the Prez Campaign; The Roots of Conservatives' E-view; Click the title for a hotlinked table of contents.

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Can "Smart Grids" Really Help? [4]

"Smart grids" are packages of technologies and services that allow two-way communication between homes and utilities, as well as between various parts of regional power distribution systems.
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TipSheet [5]
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Energy & Fuel [6]
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National (U.S.) [7]
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Supreme Court Case Could Affect Nearly 550 Power Plants [8]

On Dec. 2, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could decide whether the Clean Water Act (CWA) allows EPA to weigh costs and benefits when determining the best technology available for the cooling water intake structures at existing power plants.
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TipSheet [5]
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Energy & Fuel [6]
Water & Oceans [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
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National (U.S.) [7]
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EPA Libraries Open Doors [11]

EPA reopened five libraries September 30, 2008, after fighting its own scientists, enforcement lawyers, open-information groups, and eventually Congress for two years in an unsuccessful effort to keep them closed.
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WatchDog TipSheet [12]
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Government [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
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National (U.S.) [7]
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House Panel Probes Political Censorship of Science at EPA [15]

More details of White House efforts to silence science at EPA emerged at a September 18, 2008, hearing of a House Energy investigations panel.
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WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [14]
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National (U.S.) [7]
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Follow the Money: Oil and Coal Edition [16]

Deep Throat's advice was never more needed: "Follow the money." Those reporters who want to follow Deep Throat's advice now have tools undreamed of in Woodward and Bernstein's hey-day.
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WatchDog TipSheet [12]
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Energy & Fuel [6]
Journalism & Media [14]
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National (U.S.) [7]
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More Tools for Covering Capitol Hill — From Outside the Beltway [17]

Reporters on "Main Street" need not feel hindered in covering action on Capitol Hill. Here are more tools for Outside-the-Beltway reporters who want to keep an eye on Congress.
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WatchDog TipSheet [12]
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Journalism & Media [14]
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National (U.S.) [7]
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New GAO Report Suggests EPA Doesn't Have a Clue on CAFO Toxics [18]

A Congressional watchdog is saying efforts to exempt feedlot air emissions from standard EPA toxics reporting are based on little or no information.
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WatchDog TipSheet [12]
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Air [19]
Pollution [20]
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National (U.S.) [7]
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UCS to Release Agency Media Policies Study in October [21]

A forthcoming report by the Union of Concerned Scientists — expected the second week of October 2008 — will provide the most extensive documentation to date of federal agency press policies and their impact on environmental reporting.
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WatchDog TipSheet [12]
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Journalism & Media [14]
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National (U.S.) [7]
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Public [3]
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EPA'S IRIS Chemical Risk Database in Shambles: GAO [22]

Interference by the White House Office of Management and Budget has badly damaged the "credibility and timeliness" of IRIS.
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WatchDog TipSheet [12]
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Environmental Politics [10]
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National (U.S.) [7]
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Public [3]
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