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TOOLBOX: EPA Environmental Impact Statement Database [1]

If you are hunting stories — or useful background for a story under way — you may find a useful tool in EPA's online, searchable Environmental Impact Statement database.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [3]
Environmental Health [4]
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Public [5]
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Federal Judge Limits PETA Video Display at Kansas State Fair [6]

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals had planned to display a video showing animals being slaughtered and instances of abuse. The fair board said that PETA could only show the video within its booth and out of public view, so that people would have to make a deliberate decision to see it.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [7]
Activism [8]
Region:
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [9]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Interior Department Slow To Supply Safety Test Data in Shell Arctic Drilling Case [10]

A retired University of Alaska professor, represented by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, went to court for the testing data on which Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement approval was based, after the agency violated the FOIA by not responding within the required 20-day period.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [13]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Navy Sought To Keep Treasure Island Radiation Concerns Out of Written Record [14]

Documents obtained by the Bay Citizen, an award-winning nonprofit news organization, showed Navy officials responsible for ensuring the site was properly cleaned up trying to convince California state health officials not to put their radiation concerns in writing.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Military [15]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Facing Budget Cuts, NOAA Scales Back Collection of Greenhouse Gas Data [16]

The existing climate research budget crunch may be made worse by across-the-board cuts mandated if Congress and the White House fail to reach a budget agreement by January 2013.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [17]
Government [18]
Climate Change [19]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Data Missing on Farm Use of Antibiotics; Health Study Hindered [20]

A new report by Sabrina Tavernise in the New York Times points out that basic data about the routine use of antibiotics in farm animals (which consume some 80 percent of the nation's antibiotics) is largely missing and that a ferocious germ resistant to many types of antibiotics had increased tenfold on chicken breasts.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [21]
Agriculture [7]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Researchers, Health Groups Urge Congress Not To Black Out Carcinogens Report [22]

More than 70 scientists from research and health groups wrote House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders September 4, 2012, urging them not to cut funds for the biennial Report on Carcinogens, which showed that formaldehyde and styrene can cause cancer.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [23]
Government [18]
Environmental Politics [24]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Going to Tampa or Charlotte? Some Resources for Reporters [25]

You wouldn't think you would get arrested for trying to cover the 2012 Democratic convention in Charlotte, NC, September 4 or the Republican convention in Tampa, FL, August 27. But such things have happened before, and reporters have available some resources to support their rights.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [26]
Environmental Politics [24]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
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Public [5]
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Will Security Lapse Bring Another EPA Data Blackout? [28]

More than a decade ago, on February 17, 2000, the entire EPA website was taken down for two weeks because of data security concerns raised by the House Energy Committee. There are faint hints that such events may be in the offing again.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [3]
Government [18]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Will Security Lapse Bring Another EPA Data Blackout? [28]
Two Dead as FDA Refuses To Name Farm That Recalled Melons [29]

The Food and Drug Administration is so far refusing to name a Southwestern Indiana farm that voluntarily recalled its cantaloupes after a Salmonella outbreak last month that killed two people and sickened some 150.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [23]
Food [30]
Agriculture [7]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [31]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Two Dead as FDA Refuses To Name Farm That Recalled Melons [29]

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