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Public Land Photo-Fee Provisions Buried in Pending Energy Legislation [1]

The Senate-passed bill contains an explicit exemption from permits and fees for newsgathering. A House energy bill, now going to conference to be reconciled with the Senate bill, contains no newsgathering exemption. But that's not the end of the story. Image courtesy of NPS.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Leaked Again: Secret CRS Reports for Environment Beat [7]

Here are the latest leaked explainers, written by the Congressional Research Service, that may be of use to environmental journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [8]
Disasters [9]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Transportation [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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House Science Panel Probes EPA Unpublishing of Glyphosate Report [14]

U.S. EPA on April 29, 2016, posted on its website the 2015 "final" report by its Cancer Assessment Review Committee on the widely used herbicide glyphosate, sold commercially by Monsanto as Roundup. But on May 2, the report vanished from the EPA site.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [15]
Environmental Politics [3]
Health [11]
Science [16]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Farm News Fires Cartoonist for Lampooning Ag Firm CEOs' Pay [17]

The Iowa-based publication Farm News has fired an editorial cartoonist who had contributed to the publication for 21 years. His crime: pointing out that the CEOs of Monsanto, Dupont Pioneer and John Deere made far more than average farmers.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [18]
Economy & Business [19]
Food [20]
Journalism & Media [4]
Region:
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [21]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Commodity Groups Slip FOIA Exemption into House Appropriations Bill [22]

The language, in the report accompanying the bill, declares that employees of the marketing boards are "not government employees," and "urges the USDA to recognize" that such boards are exempt from FOIA. Image: © Clipart.com. [23]

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Public [6]
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"Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge" [24]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [26]
Climate Change [8]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Politics [3]
Natural Resources [27]
People & Population [28]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [29]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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"Beyond Fair Trade: How One Small Coffee Company Helped Transform a Hillside Village In Thailand" [30]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [18]
Economy & Business [19]
Region:
Asia [31]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about "Beyond Fair Trade: How One Small Coffee Company Helped Transform a Hillside Village In Thailand" [30]
"Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man" [32]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [27]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about "Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man" [32]
"Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver" [33]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [8]
Wildlife [34]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about "Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver" [33]
Between the Lines: Publisher Ponders Future of Environment Books [35]

For the latest installment of Between the Lines, an author Q& A, SEJournal book editor Tom Henry digressed from the writer’s point of view and sought out advice from a publishing company that specializes in energy and environment books. Founded in 1984, Island Press is a nonprofit that has published books by E.O. Wilson, Paul Ehrlich, Sylvia Earle and many other well-known writers. David Miller, Island Press senior vice president and publisher, gave us his thoughts.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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