USFS Releases Report on Threats to Private Forests [1]
The report includes many lists and maps that allow you to zoom in on specific topical and geographic areas of interest to your audience. Here are some angles to explore, evaluated by watershed.
The report includes many lists and maps that allow you to zoom in on specific topical and geographic areas of interest to your audience. Here are some angles to explore, evaluated by watershed.
A leaked "internal draft, not for release" discussion paper contains thoughts on a possible shift toward more conservation — and moving away from BLM's historic pattern of generally emphasizing extraction of natural resources and de-emphasizing conservation of those resources.
Topics of interest to your audience could include agriculture, construction, sewage plant discharges, urban stormwater runoff, industrial sources, concentrated animal feeding operations, hydraulic fracturing used in natural gas extraction, power plant cooling water use, and pesticide infiltration.
The August 24, 2010 Webinar for journalists offered tips for better coverage of the Gulf oil spill and related issues. You can replay it online.
The National Response Center, a single call-in facility for the reporting of all kinds of oil and chemicals leaks, spills, and discharges, puts all the data online in a form than can be queried or downloaded.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility says if NOAA repealed its Don't-Tell press policy, agency scientists would again be able to freely talk to the taxpayers about tax-funded research.
USFWS officers and DHS agents are not allowing independent academic researchers to study damage from the BP oil spill to natural resources from public lands and waters, saying they are justified by the "Natural Resource Damage Assessment" process under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and "national security," respectively.
Obama administration officials are publicly refusing to disclose data backing up an August 4 report announcing that some three-fourths of the BP oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico was "gone.".
Summaries of marine diversity in eight settings around the globe have been published, with another 17 scheduled to be added in coming weeks. One of the discoveries was that the Gulf of Mexico is the fifth most diverse marine setting in the world for known species.
EPA and the Dept. of Energy have collaborated to develop an improved monitoring package that utilizes inline sensors in the water network and software called CANARY.
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[1] https://www.sej.org/publications/forests/usfs-releases-report-threats-private-forests
[2] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/tipsheet
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/forests
[5] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[6] https://www.sej.org/publications/government/blm-paper-national-monuments-other-conservation-units-unveiled
[7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land
[8] https://www.sej.org/publications/government/epa-targets-future-water-cleanups-you-can-cover-problems-now
[9] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[10] https://www.sej.org/publications/disasters/poynter-webinar-oil-spill-coverage-theres-still-time
[11] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/watchdog-tipsheet
[12] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media
[13] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[15] https://www.sej.org/publications/energy-fuel/coast-guard-spill-response-database-offers-near-real-time-story-leads
[16] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
[17] https://www.sej.org/publications/government/peer-petitions-noaa-un-muzzle-agency-scientists
[18] https://www.sej.org/publications/government/will-feds-shut-down-independent-research-gulf-spill-impacts
[19] https://www.sej.org/publications/disasters/three-quarters-white-house-credibility-gulf-spill-impacts-now-gone
[20] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/marine-census-final-results-due-oct-4-2010
[21] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/biodiversity-1
[22] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international
[23] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[24] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/drinking-water-threats-may-soon-be-rapidly-detected
[25] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/health
[26] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/technology
[27] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A
[28] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A?page=207
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[30] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A?page=205
[31] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A?page=206
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[35] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A?page=212
[36] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A?page=323
[37] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/Watchdog+TipSheet