Publication Items

Presidential Campaign Proves Environment a Hot Story [1]

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Climate: "Smoking Gun" is Laid on the Table-With a Thump [7]

The latest update of scientific consensus on climate change - to be released Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, is said to present "smoking gun" evidence that global warming is happening now and that human emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) are causing it.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Water Security Measures Open to Public Review [10]

Steps necessary to improve security at tens of thousands of US drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater facilities have become a little more definitive with the release Dec. 14, 2006, of a draft set of voluntary guidelines. (
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Waste [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Climate Change Info Emerges in Advance of IPCC Release [13]

With climate change continuing to grow in news prominence, it'll be helpful to have access to the latest developments.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [9]
Region:
International [14]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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"Wonder" Helps Speed Pattern Recognition [15]

When assessing an environmental issue, it may be useful and appropriate to evaluate its links with human deaths and illnesses.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about "Wonder" Helps Speed Pattern Recognition [15]
Climate Change: Investor Angles Heating Up [16]

Business/finance stories are spilling over onto the environment beat, and vice versa, as the potential impacts of climate change become more tangible and costly.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Special Issue: Year 2007 Environmental News Look-Ahead Calendar [17]

A split-party government is likely to bring more controversy, more conflict, and more news.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [18]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Special Issue: Year 2007 Environmental News Look-Ahead Calendar [17]
20 U.S. States, Canada and Mexico Have Dead Zones [19]

The Gulf waters off of Louisiana aren't the only US area burdened by a "dead zone." There are similar, smaller areas with short- or long-term oxygen depletion off the shores of 20 states, as well as Canada and Mexico.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [12]
Region:
Canada [21]
National (U.S.) [5]
Mexico [22]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Public Role in Decision Making Supported by Expert Committee [23]

A committee commissioned by the National Academies has found that the public's role in government decision-making processes on environmental matters is invaluable, when properly handled.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Studies [24]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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EPA Updating Science for SO2 [25]

After recently issuing highly controversial updates for two of the main criteria air pollutants — fine particulates and ozone — EPA is in the midst of its review of two others.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [26]
Pollution [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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