Publication Items

EPA Releases 2010 TRI National Analysis [1]

The analysis can be a useful starting point for targeting angles you want to investigate for toxic pollution stories. The raw data also offer numerous ways to look at occurrences and trends in many ways nationally and locally the agency hasn't addressed or emphasized in its analysis.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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EPA To Release Dioxin Noncancer Risk Reassessment [5]

The assessments, expected late January 2012, could have wide-ranging direct and indirect effects in realms such as toxic site cleanups, brownfield development, manufacturing processes, domestic food production and sales, and international trade of food and possibly other goods.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [6]
Health [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Chemicals [3]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Checking Local Water Use and Scrutinizing Those Big Water Projects Can Benefit Your Community [9]

Author Cynthia Barnett explains water-use truths and fallacies, offers tips for investigating water projects proposed for your audience area, and reports how some of the country’s most progressive engineers and local governments are showing that it’s absolutely possible to live with far less water.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [8]
Natural Resources [12]
Planning & Growth [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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SEJournal Winter 2011-12, Vol. 21 No. 4 [15]

In this issue: Documerica photo archive rediscovered; exploring the narrative form; SEJ Miami, according to Helvarg and Letto; important considerations for freelancers; Transparency Watch project raises serious concerns about government access; how to check local water use and scrutinize big water projects; climate change coverage dips in quantity, shifts in presentation; SEJ members' new books and projects.

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SEJournal Online [16]
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Public [4]
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Press Access Issues in Agency Science Policies Still Unclear, Imperfect [17]

Environmental journalists are still waiting to see whether EPA revises the draft Scientific Integrity Policy in which it claims the right to keep scientists from talking to reporters without press office permission — and have Saddam-style "minders" sit in on interviews.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [19]
Policy [20]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Judge Allows Pool Video, Audio Coverage of WV Monsanto Trial [21]

In response to a request for live-streaming of the trial, the judge has expanded the gag order for the case, a class-action lawsuit seeking medical monitoring for people who may have been exposed to hazardous chemicals produced at Monsanto's former plant in Nitro, W.V.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [22]
Health [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Chemicals [3]
Agriculture [23]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Who Are Your Local "Sunshine" Heroes? [25]

Somewhere near you there is probably an activist who has been doggedly seeking documents from a local, state, or federal agency which has been reluctant to provide them. Their story might well be worth telling. Sunshine Week, March 11-17, 2012, will celebrate "Local Heroes" with a roundup of such stories.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [26]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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House Adopts Online Publication Standard [27]

It remains to be seen how successful the House will be in timely posting of electronic versions of bills — especially when they are thousand-page appropriations bills being rammed through at the last minute. The WatchDog will be watching to see if bills are published electronically well before subcommittee markups begin.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [22]
Government [26]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Big Canadian Fish Farm Firm Seeks to Criminalize, Silence Environmental Critics [28]

Mainstream Canada, the nation's second-largest farmed-salmon producer — and a subsidiary of an even more gargantuan Danish transnational holding company — will try to crush and silence environmental activist Don Staniford, who has had the temerity to criticize their operations publicly.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [14]
Fish & Fisheries [29]
Activism [30]
Region:
Canada [31]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Is Documenting Cruelty to Animals a Federal Terrorist Crime? [32]

According to the Los Angeles Times, recent directives from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force suggest that merely filming commercial acts of cruelty to animals could be a terrorist offense — something that now can lead to indefinite military detention without trial.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [22]
Food [33]
Economy & Business [34]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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