Publication Items

EPA Uses Online Forum To Address TRI Mining Changes [1]

EPA seems to be making efforts to use social media to improve public participation in its decisions, says the watchdog group OMB Watch, citing the TRI forum as one example of several.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [3]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Advisory Arrives Hours After Vilsack Presser [7]

You know you are not on the A-list when the press advisory is sent to you after the press conference takes place, as one SEJ member experienced on October 16, 2009.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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EPA Releases Bush-Suppressed Endangerment Finding [8]

Persistence pays off for Greenwire reporter Darren Samuelsohn who filed his first Freedom of Information Act request for it back in July 2008, re-filed it in January 2009 at the start of the Obama administration, and finally received it October 13, 2009.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [4]
Journalism & Media [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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EPA Names 31 Areas Not Meeting Fine Particulate Air Standards [10]

These communities will have to come up with plans for reducing fine particle pollution. Is yours one of them?
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [12]
Pollution [13]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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USGS Offers Early Warning On Wildlife Die-Offs [14]

You may find a local wildlife story by keeping your eye on the US Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center which keeps constant surveillance on outbreaks of wildlife disease and posts the information online as it comes in.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [15]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Supreme Court Property Rights Case Has Environmental Implications [16]

The Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Dec. 2, 2009. The case, which started with legal action in 2004, involves a dispute over restoration of a stretch of Florida panhandle beaches damaged by storms.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
People & Population [20]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [21]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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100s of National Park Sites Threatened by Climate Change [22]

A new report identifies 25 park units considered to be most threatened, but the vulnerability principles spill over to hundreds of additional national park units and other types of natural areas that may be of interest to your audience.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [23]
Natural Resources [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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SEJournal Fall 2009, Vol. 19 No. 3 [24]

In this issue: New Journalism-Science Initiatives; Veteran Newspaper Writer Finds Teaching's Hidden Pleasures; Photographers Document and Protect Borderland Environments; Germ Killer, Largely Unregulated, Attracts New Concern for Wildlife; Improve Your Video — Get Good Audio; and more.

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SEJournal Online [25]
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Public [6]
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Do E-Journalists Have a "Document Cloud" in Their Future? [26]

An online compendium of key source documents behind all the big stories seems on its way for future reference from ProPublica, thanks to a Knight News Challenge $719,500 grant.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Do E-Journalists Have a "Document Cloud" in Their Future? [26]
FOIA Not Fixed Yet: Senate Panel [27]

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) says Congress has to do more to fix the Freedom of Information Act — especially stemming the hundreds of special exemptions created by Congress itself.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [18]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about FOIA Not Fixed Yet: Senate Panel [27]

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