Publication Items

Investigations May Bring News in 2018 [1]

Almost a dozen investigations are underway at the U.S. EPA and the Interior Department, including of unusual travel, private sector connections and staff/advisory panel moves. This week's TipSheet runs down the probes in detail, and offers resources for coverage of developments in 2018.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [4]
Disasters [5]
Economy & Business [6]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Government [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Policy [11]
Science [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Alaska and Hawaii [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Central America & the Caribbean [17]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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Energy Markets Offer Clues on Environment’s Future [19]

How the U.S. economy uses energy has huge impacts on the environment. So this week's TipSheet helps journalists understand the economy-energy-environment nexus, detailing nine top trends to watch on fossil fuels and alternative energy in 2018. Plus, a list of helpful sources for tracking energy markets.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [4]
Economy & Business [6]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Government [9]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [21]
Planning & Growth [22]
Pollution [23]
Technology [24]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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Battle Builds Over Science Integrity in Environmental Policy [25]

Purges of EPA science panels by Administrator Scott Pruitt are just one among many moves in an ongoing dispute over the integrity of the environmental sciences in government policymaking. The latest Issue Backgrounder takes a deep dive with a briefing on five likely battles ahead for the coming year.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [27]
Air [28]
Chemicals [29]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Environmental Studies [30]
Government [9]
Health [31]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Policy [11]
Pollution [23]
Science [12]
Technology [24]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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For Pruitt EPA, There Is No Bad News on Ozone Pollution [32]

Trying to figure out the air quality in your coverage area? The EPA may not be much help. But this week's TipSheet suggests some effective work-arounds for your reporting. Get the backstory on ozone standards, tips on how to track ozone "nonattainment" for your area and learn why smog matters so much to public health.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [28]
Chemicals [29]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Government [9]
Health [31]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Policy [11]
Pollution [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
California [33]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [34]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [36]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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FOIA Suit, Silence on Hog Farms & Sea-Level Rise, Plus Shield Laws [37]

A push for disclosure on hazardous air emissions from industrial hog farms, and reporting on how the coastal real estate industry works to block bad news about sea-level rise. That, plus the Bay Journal FOIAs the EPA over grant defunding, and a move in Congress towards a federal shield law, all in the latest WatchDog.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [38]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [28]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [5]
Environmental Politics [8]
Government [9]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [10]
People & Population [39]
Planning & Growth [22]
Pollution [23]
Waste [40]
Water & Oceans [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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Clean Power Plan Showdown Ahead, But Will It Matter? [42]

President Trump campaigned partly on the promise to abolish an Obama-era program to cut power plant CO2 emissions. But as TipSheet explains in the first in a series of special reports on key issues in the coming year, the program is tied up in complex court proceedings that may, in the end, be moot. Learn why.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [28]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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Reporting on Turkey, Trauma-Free [43]

Turkeys are a favorite American food, but also a multi-billion-dollar industry with myriad environment and food safety issues, not to mention confusing consumer labelling. With Thanksgiving approaching, this week's TipSheet helps reporters carve out a bird beat, serving up story ideas, resources and more.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [27]
Consumer [4]
Food [44]
Health [31]
Journalism & Media [20]
Pollution [23]
Waste [40]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Visibility:
Public [18]
- Read more about Reporting on Turkey, Trauma-Free [43]
Teaching Journalism Skills … To All Comers [45]

If you can both do and teach journalism, your skills are in demand, writes educator Dave Poulson in the new EJ Academy column. Here's how to maximize your chances of finding such opportunities. Plus, Poulson's take on the value of fostering reporting skills and journalistic values, even among non-journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ Academy [46]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [27]
Food [44]
Journalism & Media [20]
Science [12]
Region:
International [47]
Africa [48]
South America [49]
Visibility:
Public [18]
- Read more about Teaching Journalism Skills … To All Comers [45]
"The Death and Life of the Great Lakes" [50]

A look at an acclaimed new work by journalist Dan Egan on the environmental state of the Great Lakes finds much to laud. But our BookShelf editor and long-time Great Lakes reporter Tom Henry sees important weaknesses as well, such as when the comprehensive compendium of environmental challenges tackles Lake Erie’s algae crisis.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [51]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [52]
Water & Oceans [13]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [53]
Visibility:
Public [18]
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"Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats” [54]

A new book on "Big Chicken" dissects how common practices of the U.S. poultry industry are harming our air, water and health — and why Europe does it better.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [51]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [27]
Consumer [4]
Economy & Business [6]
Food [44]
Waste [40]
Region:
National (U.S.) [14]
Europe [55]
Visibility:
Public [18]
- Read more about "Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats” [54]

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