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New Government Effort To Produce More Data On Toxic Chemicals [1]

By CHERYL HOGUE

We don't have a lot of information about many of the industrial chemicals that are in our air, water and soil, or those that are increasingly found in our blood.

This dearth of data often leaves audiences hanging when journalists report about pollution and biomonitoring. Too often, scientists just can't tell us what the presence of Chemical X in our bodies means.
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Chemicals [2]
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National (U.S.) [3]
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Public [4]
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Publishing Paradox: Environment, A Hot Topic, Addressed In Fewer Books [5]

By BILL KOVARIK

The new SEJ book award, along with plans for an increased emphasis on environmental books at this year's SEJ annual conference in Roanoke, VA, are reflections of an increasing interest in environmental book publishing among SEJ members. Yet trends in the national marketplace of ideas seem paradoxical.

Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Studies [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
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National (U.S.) [3]
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Public [4]
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Nation's First Investigative Reporter Drilled Deep On Big Oil [8]

By STEVE WEINBERG
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [9]
Journalism & Media [7]
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National (U.S.) [3]
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Public [4]
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Book Shelf, Book 3 — Listening to Cougar [10]

Listening to Cougar

By Marc Bekoff and Cara Blessley Lowe, editors
University Press of Colorado $24.95

Reviewed by David Baron

Compared with North America's other apex predators, cougars get little respect. Whether measured by screen time on the Discovery Channel or dollars raised for their protection, wolves and grizzlies gain the lion's share of attention.
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [7]
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National (U.S.) [3]
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Public [4]
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Book Shelf, Book 1 — Wallace Stegner and the American West [11]

Wallace Stegner and the American West

By Philip L. Fradkin
Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, $27.50

Reviewed by Laura Paskus

In his new book, Wallace Stegner and the American West, Philip L. Fradkin delves into the writer's upbringing, passions, his artistic influences and his demons.
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Journalism & Media [7]
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National (U.S.) [3]
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Public [4]
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Book Shelf, Book 4 — Apollo's Fire [12]

Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy

By Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks
Island Press $25.95

Reviewed by Tom Henry

Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas calls Apollo's Fire a "brilliant, inspiring book on the need to set goals and find future solutions to achieve clean, efficient energy."
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Journalism & Media [7]
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National (U.S.) [3]
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Public [4]
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Book Shelf, Book 2 — Naked in the Woods [13]

Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery

By Jim Motavalli
$26.95 Da Capo Press

Reviewed by Bill Kovarik

Hermits and wild men of every shape and motivation have long been fixtures of world folklore. From John the Baptist to TV's Bear Grylls, survival in the wilderness has been a hallmark of integrity and, sometimes, intelligence.
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Journalism & Media [7]
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National (U.S.) [3]
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Public [4]
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Photographers"Rave" About Conservation [14]

By ROGER ARCHIBALD
Protecting the cloud forest ecosystem of a nearly-extinct bird with a magnificent plumage.
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Journalism & Media [7]
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Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [15]
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Public [4]
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Troubles In Paradise:SEJ Members Study Tropical Ecosystems In Hawai'i [16]

By JENNIFER OLADIPO
SEJ members Joy Horowitz, Erin K.D. Judd, Charlotte Kidd and Jennifer Oladipo were four of seven environmental reporting fellows at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawai'i in May.
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Studies [6]
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Alaska and Hawaii [17]
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Public [4]
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New Trend In Urban Development: Clean Up Water Pollution [18]

By ROBERT McCLURE

The fastest-growing water pollution threat in my region – and probably in yours, too – is stormwater, that filthy mixture that results when rain or melting snow washes away oil, antifreeze, dog poop, fertilizer, pesticide and anything else on the ground. It is truly foul stuff.

All that ends up somewhere. Usually, that's your nearest stream, wetland or bay. And the rainwater running off streets and other hard surfaces tends to come in big surges that gouge out stream bottoms.
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [19]
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National (U.S.) [3]
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Public [4]
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