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Mining Industry Threatens Journals To Keep Diesel Exposure Data Secret [1]

The Patton Boggs lobbying firm, which represents the mining industry, has sent letters threatening unspecified legal action against four scientific journals if they publish results of a study about the exposure of miners to diesel emissions, according to Science magazine.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Read the Secret Backgrounder on the Secret 2012 Farm Bill [7]

This year's Farm Bill deliberations have been less transparent than ever before. In that spirit, SEJ's WatchDog shares a backgrounder, published by the Federation of American Scientists, on the 2012 Farm Bill done by the Congressional Research Service — which keeps their taxpayer-funded reports secret from the public.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [8]
Environmental Politics [9]
Agriculture [10]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Reporters, Researchers at AAAS Say Canada Muzzles Climate Scientists [11]

The complaints came out at the Vancouver meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this month — the main multidisciplinary science conference held yearly on the continent. Also during the meeting, a letter from six journalism and science groups called on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end the muzzling-scientists policy was released.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [12]
Climate Change [13]
Region:
Canada [14]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Miami According to Helvarg [15]

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SEJ News [16]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [17]
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Public [6]
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Exploring the Narrative Form [18]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [20]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Documerica, Lost and Found [21]

Read about EPA's long dormant photojournalism project containing thousands of color photographs depicting a nation and its environmental problems in the early 1970s — and the new State of the Environment Photo Project this rediscovery has spawned, inviting participants worldwide to submit their work. By SEJournal photo editor Roger Archibald.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [20]
Natural Resources [3]
People & Population [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [24]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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USFS Offers Climate Change Bird Atlas [25]

The atlas — a database actually — is based partly on climate-related changes in tree cover. It maps out current distribution of 147 species and modeled distribution resulting from climate change.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [27]
Forests [28]
Climate Change [13]
Biodiversity [29]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Maplight Provides More Ways To Link Money and Politics [30]

The organization Maplight now offers three additional ways of looking at its data. Over 14 million records cover ties between lobbying money, legislators, and either all legislation or that relating to several environmental topics. This information can help you better cover Congressional election races of interest to your audience.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [31]
Environmental Politics [9]
Economy & Business [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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EPA Makes Surface Water Pollution Easier To Investigate [32]

This user-friendly tool will help you understand and analyze discharges from point sources such as factories, sewage treatment plants, power plants, airports, and feedlots. EPA consolidated data from a number of inventories, making it easier to see who is dumping what, when, and where, and who is known to be in violation of their permit.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [33]
Pollution [34]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Consortium Launches Web Site on Feedlot Air Pollution [35]

The confidential National Air Quality Site Assessment Tool helps the livestock owner/operator figure out how changing on-site practices can reduce emissions of ammonia, methane, volatile organic compounds, hydrogen sulfide, fine particulates, and odors. This may be useful for journalists; whether an owner/operator will discuss the details of their operation or not, there's a story.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [31]
Pollution [34]
Air [36]
Agriculture [10]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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