Publication Items

"Global Climate Change: A Primer" [1]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Policy [5]
Science [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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"The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid" [8]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [9]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
South America [11]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about "The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid" [8]
Winners Named in SEJ Awards’ New Photo Category [12]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [13]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Coal Slurry Database May Help Reporters Find Problem Impoundments [14]

A fatal November 30, 2012, collapse of part of a coal-slurry impoundment in West Virginia served as a reminder of safety issues that may not be adequately regulated in some states and localities. You can locate local coal-slurry impoundments and information on their status with an online public database.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Disasters [17]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [18]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Coal Slurry Database May Help Reporters Find Problem Impoundments [14]
NRC Board Orders Calif. Nuclear Plant To Turn Over Withheld Records [19]

Is the public entitled to see documents that may bear on the safety of a for-profit utility's plan to restart the flaw-stricken San Onofre nuclear plant in California? Maybe not. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ruled the utility must turn the documents over to the board — but currently plans to keep them secret from the public.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Nuclear Power & Radiation [20]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Region:
California [21]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about NRC Board Orders Calif. Nuclear Plant To Turn Over Withheld Records [19]
Pennsylvania Newspapers Get Break in Fracking Disclosure Case [22]

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was joined by the Washington (PA) Observer-Reporter in a suit to unseal records of the July 2011 settlement of a case in which a family had sued four natural gas companies over damages they claimed were caused by hydraulic fracturing. The appeals court said a lower court had erred in throwing out the newspapers' case.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [18]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Pennsylvania Newspapers Get Break in Fracking Disclosure Case [22]
SEJ Backs Member Threatened by Interior Secretary [23]

The Society of Environmental Journalists wrote Interior Secretary Ken Salazar about the Election Day incident of attempted intimidation in Colorado, when the Secretary threatened to "punch out" SEJ member Dave Philipps, senior investigative reporter with the Colorado Springs Gazette.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Government [24]
Region:
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [25]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about SEJ Backs Member Threatened by Interior Secretary [23]
EPA’s ECHO Database: Your Two-faced Best Friend [26]

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [24]
Journalism & Media [4]
Technology [28]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about EPA’s ECHO Database: Your Two-faced Best Friend [26]
SEJ Members Publish E-books, Change Jobs, Gain Awards [29]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about SEJ Members Publish E-books, Change Jobs, Gain Awards [29]
Bridging the Journalism/Science Divide, Professions Seek New Ways To Collaborate [30]

Bud Ward, editor of The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, writes about the ways for these two disciplines to get along and learn from each other — while preserving their own independence and remaining loyal to their underlying principles.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Bridging the Journalism/Science Divide, Professions Seek New Ways To Collaborate [30]

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