Publication Items

Taxpayer-Funded Feedlots Refuse To Disclose Polluting Emissions [1]

Beef and pork factory farms are exempt from federal requirements to report their greenhouse gas emissions but are okay with accepting federal subsidies to capture their methane emissions and turn them into energy.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [3]
Air [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Waste [6]
Government [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Gulf Dispersants Called Trade Secret [10]

The exact ingredients of the chemical mixture being sprayed on and pumped into the spreading BP oil spill are secret, even though some are rated toxic and may endanger the health of Gulf residents and ecosystems.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [11]
Chemicals [12]
Disasters [13]
Health [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Biodiversity [16]
Government [7]
Environmental Health [17]
Wildlife [18]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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J-Groups Seek Open MSHA Inquiry [19]

SEJ and eight other journalism organizations called on the Mine Safety and Health Administration to open to the public its investigation into the Massey mine disaster that killed 29 people.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [20]
Journalism & Media [21]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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EPA Staffers Forced To Ignore Science: Panel [22]

Award-winning investigative journalist Sheila Kaplan, an SEJ member, published a story in Politics Daily bringing to light some 73 interviews with 450 EPA employees depicting political interference in EPA science as an ongoing problem.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Science [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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EPA's Hush-Hush Ground Rules Rile Reporters [24]

The EPA press office continues to ask reporters not to name top EPA officials who participate in news teleconferences and brief journalists. The latest incident, remarked on by InvestigateWest's Robert McClure, was a May 4 briefing on EPA's proposed delay in issuing its coal-ash rule.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Policy [25]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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EPA Begins Restoring Toxics Inventory After Downgrading [26]

Sixteen chemicals may be added to the TRI, after nearly a decade of erosion under the Bush administration.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [12]
Government [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Massey Mine Disaster Raises Openness Issues [27]

Several journalists have raised questions about why more was not known publicly about the safety defects that led to the deaths of 29 miners at Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine in April 2010.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [13]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [28]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Local Officials, Residents, in Dark on Nearby Hazardous Rail Cargoes [29]

Sixty-two U.S. urban areas are threatened by hazardous rail cargoes, but federal agencies still refuse to let many firefighters, governments, and citizens know the rail routes used to transport cargoes that could kill tens or hundreds of thousands.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [12]
Disasters [13]
Transportation [30]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Supreme Court Tosses Overbroad Cruelty Video Law [31]

SEJ and other journalism groups had urged the court to strike down the sweeping law that could criminalize ordinary journalistic investigations meant to expose and end animal cruelty.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [32]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Feds Put Data on Contractor Misdeeds Off-Limits to Public [33]

The good news: government for the first time is centralizing data about contractors at all federal agencies who were terminated, disbarred or suspended from a federal contract or grant. The bad news: taxpayers (and investigative reporters!) are not allowed to see it.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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