Publication Items

TipSheet Publication To Be Suspended [1]

SEJ regrets to announce that biweekly publication of the TipSheet will be suspended after the next issue pending renewal of adequate funding.There is some chance the TipSheet may be reinvented. In order for this to happen, it will help if you let us know what you did and didn't like about the TipSheet.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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SacBee Wins Access to Forest-Fire Documents [5]

A federal judge ruled that once the documents — depositions of US Forest Service employees about a 2007 forest fire in California that burned tens of thousands of acres — had been entered into court records as part of the evidence discovery process, they were presumptively public records and had to remain that way.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [6]
Topics on the Beat:
Forests [7]
Disasters [8]
Region:
California [9]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Memos Confirm BP Hid Early Spill Estimates [10]

Internal BP corporate memos dating back to the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout show that the company was concerned about a spill rate much higher than what it publicly estimated at the time. The memos were released as part of federal court proceedings.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [6]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [8]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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SEJ Urges EPA Press Office To Open up Agency Info to News Media [11]

On January 27, 2012, SEJ wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, after unreturned phone calls and ignored emails, in an attempt to get the agency to resume quarterly conference calls to discuss access issues and the run-around SEJ members endure when trying to do their jobs.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [6]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
Government [12]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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SEJ Condemns House Science Panel Arrest of Journalist [13]

Read SEJ's February 6, 2012, letter to Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chair Harris condemning ejection of Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Josh Fox from the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology's subcommittee hearing on EPA's policies and enforcement of water quality issues surrounding natural gas drilling or "fracking."
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [6]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [14]
Journalism & Media [3]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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"The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes" [16]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [17]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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"The Way of Natural History" [18]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [17]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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New Jobs, New Awards and New Ventures Await SEJ Members [19]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [20]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Annual AAAS Meeting Offers Many Environmental Stories [21]

This year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Feb 16-20 in Vancouver, BC, offers dozens of sessions on environmental topics — climate change, mineral resource dependency, water, critique of science journalism, disaster recovery, science integrity in government agencies, and more.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [14]
Region:
Canada [22]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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New US Strategy for Coping with Climate Change Open for Comment [23]

NOAA, the USFWS, and the NY State Dept. of Environmental Conservation (representing all state and wildlife agencies) released on Jan. 19, 2012, a draft of the first national strategy for responding to climate change effects on plants, fish and wildlife. The public comment period is open until March 5, 2012, and public meetings and a webinar will occur until Feb. 22, 2012.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [24]
People & Population [25]
Climate Change [26]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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