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TOOLBOX: Wilileaks Offers Offshore Protection for Disclosure of Wrongdoing [1]

Virtually unknown until the Swiss bank Julius Baer tried to censor it for publishing allegations of financial hanky-panky, a website called Wikileaks has catapulted to fame as a potential tool for journalists... and those who leak to them.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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AP Water Series Highlights Information Blackout [6]

Can the public be trusted with information about drugs in their drinking water?
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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It's Sunshine Week-Do you Know Where Your City's Secrets Are? [8]

"News is what people want to keep hidden - and everything else is publicity." Bill Moyers made famous that maxim he gleaned from a Texas mentor.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Use It or Lose It: EPA Releases Toxics Data Feb. 24 [9]

EPA made public the latest year's data from the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) February 21, 2008, catching a few journalists by surprise, as usual.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [10]
Journalism & Media [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Use It or Lose It: EPA Releases Toxics Data Feb. 24 [9]
Court Reverses Ban on Farm Data Releasees [11]

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, ruled Feb. 15, 2008, that the public had a legitimate interest in data from some previously unreleased Agriculture Department databases - clearing the way for their release.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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EPA Would Suppress Info on Toxic Gases From Feedlots at Industry Urging [13]

Large feedlots would no longer have to report toxic emissions under a rule proposed Dec. 21, 2007, by EPA.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Food [14]
Pollution [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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SEJ Voices Concern Over Muzzling of Environment Canada Scientists [15]

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 [12]
Region:
Canada [16]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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BLM Proposal May Limit Transparency, Public Input On Its NEPA Actions [17]

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 [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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EPA Greeenhouse Reporting Rules Goes Forward Despite White House [18]

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 [19]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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New Jersey Sues EPA Over NSR Air Pollution Reporting Cutbacks [20]

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 [21]
Pollution [10]
Region:
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [22]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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