Publication Items

SEJ Voices Concern Over Muzzling of Environment Canada Scientists [1]

The Society of Environmental Journalists has asked Environment Canada for its written policies on staff communication with news media.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [3]
Region:
Canada [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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BLM Proposal May Limit Transparency, Public Input On Its NEPA Actions [6]

The Bureau of Land Management has proposed changing its rules for complying with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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EPA Greeenhouse Reporting Rules Goes Forward Despite White House [8]

Congress mandated a mandatory "registry" of greenhouse gas emissions with $3.5 million tucked into the final fiscal 2008 omnibus appropriations bill it passed late in 2007.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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New Jersey Sues EPA Over NSR Air Pollution Reporting Cutbacks [10]

New Jersey filed a lawsuit Feb. 19, 2008, challenging the US-EPA's December 2007 rule that utilities could decide for themselves whether their air pollution increases are significant enough to require detailed record-keeping.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [11]
Pollution [12]
Region:
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [13]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Great Lakes Study Suppressed [14]

For more than seven months, the nation's top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [16]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Access to Congress: A Few Coverage Tips and Tricks [17]

The U.S. Congress can be even more frustrating to cover than executive agencies.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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SEJournal Fall 2007, Vol. 17 No. 3 [18]

In this issue: Editors focus new attention on climate change, environment...for the complete hotlinked table of contents, click on the journal cover.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [19]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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SEJournal Winter 2008, Vol. 17 No. 4 [20]

In this issue: Covering coal country; Three decades on the beat; Photography for reporters; Network news going green; Undersea reporting...for the complete hotlinked table of contents click, on the journal cover.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [19]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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SEJournal Spring 2008, Vol. 18 No.1 [21]

In this issue: Tarbell: first to take on big oil; Environment books of the year; Oil on the Brain tracts crude to gas; Conference agenda sneak peek; FOIA successes...for complete hotlinked table of contents, click the journal cover.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [19]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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FERC Slightly Eases Some Secrecy Requirements [22]

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has slightly relaxed some requirements for secrecy on decisions it makes on "critical energy infrastructure."

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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