Publication Items

SEJ Offers Resources for Covering Summer Stories [1]

Wildfire, hurricanes, recreation, extreme heat, drought, electric brownouts, UV rays and sunscreen, insect-borne disease like West Nile virus, fishing, dead zones, and algal blooms — TipSheet can help you cover these local environmental stories.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [3]
Disasters [4]
Natural Resources [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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California Weekly Newspaper Scores by Unraveling Green Claims from Corporate and Enviro Groups [8]

Bill Dawson gets the inside story from the Monterey County Weekly's assistant editor Kera Abraham (pictured at left) and her award-winning stories involving clashing shades of green.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [10]
Region:
California [11]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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SEJournal Summer 2011, Vol. 21 No. 2 [12]

In this issue: Harvest Public Media fills coverage gap; California weekly unravels green claims; lessons from BP's Gulf oil disaster; nuke experts assess reporting on Fukushima; rethinking climate change-natural disasters relationship; thanks to SEJ's founders; enterprising disaster coverage; spreadsheet techniques check scientists’ studies; UN science panel deals with dwindling natural resources.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [13]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Shark Week To Trigger Media Feeding Frenzy July 31 [14]

Shark Week may once have been an effort to relive "Jaws" — but in more recent years Discovery has used the event as a chance to educate the public about sharks, build awareness of the threats they face, and explain the need to conserve them.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [15]
Water & Oceans [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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EPA To Issue Long Overdue Standards for Oil & Gas Facilities [16]

Two and a half years after being sued, EPA is under a twice-extended court deadline to release by July 28, 2011, proposed standards which will address air toxics from oil production facilities and natural gas production, processing, transmission, and storage facilities.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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EPA May Finally Release Final Ozone Standards [19]

The standards were initially scheduled to be released in August 2010, then October 2010, after EPA determined that the ones approved during the George W. Bush administration weren't grounded in science, didn't protect public health with an adequate margin of safety, and didn't protect the environment.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [20]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Health [3]
Environmental Health [21]
Air [22]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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EPA Vows To Improve IRIS Toxic Effects Database [23]

The more transparent Integrated Risk Information System would have shorter and clearer effects of hazard assessments and use more graphics and tables to present the data.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [3]
Environmental Health [21]
Chemicals [25]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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NOAA Rule Aims To Silence Sea Grant Advocacy [26]

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility petitioned NOAA to reverse its no-advocacy policy, saying it's inconsistent with the agency's official scientific integrity policy and the Obama administration's much-vaunted advocacy of more openness in federal government.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [6]
Policy [27]
Government [28]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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EPA Proposes Expanding Scope of TRI to Additional Industries [29]

The new industries would be Iron Ore Mining, Phosphate Mining, Municipal Waste Incineration, Industrial Dry Cleaning, Petroleum Bulk Storage, and Steam-Only Production from Fossil Fuels.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [20]
Economy & Business [30]
Chemicals [25]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Press Fotogs Sue DHS Over Laptop, Camera Seizures [31]

A U.S. District judge heard oral arguments July 8, 2011 on a DHS motion to dismiss the case, brought by the National Press Photographers Association, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [32]
Government [28]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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