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'Solid Conflict' and Superb Writing — On the Daily Beat and for His New Book [1]

Bill Dawson gets the "Inside Story" from The Seattle Times' Craig Welch about his award-winning work as a reporter on the environment beat in the Pacific Northwest’s largest city and on his book Shell Games.

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Inside Story [2]
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BLM Says 9 Western States Have Worthy Wilderness Areas [4]

Designating lands as wilderness or some other highly protected status always is contentious, but the BLM has identified 24 areas in 9 western states the agency says have significant local support for this idea: CA (9 areas), CO (3), ID (1), MT (1), NM (2), NV (2), OR (2), UT (3), and WA (1).
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TipSheet [5]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [6]
Region:
California [7]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [8]
Northwest (OR WA) [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [10]
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Public [3]
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Airborne Lead Violations Still Occur in 14 States [11]

The culprits often are one or more significant lead emitters such as smelters, iron or steel foundries, waste incinerators, utilities, or lead-acid battery manufacturers. Piston-engine planes using leaded aviation gasoline are another source.
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TipSheet [5]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [12]
Air [13]
Pollution [14]
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Public [3]
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Feds Announce Offshore Oil and Gas Target Areas [15]

Offshore oil and gas drilling from 2012-2017 would be focused in the western and central Gulf of Mexico and off the shores of northern and southern Alaska, if the Dept. of Interior's proposed plan and draft programmatic environmental impact statement, released Nov. 8, 2011, are accepted as is. A 60-day public comment period ends Jan. 9, 2012.
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TipSheet [5]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [16]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [10]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [18]
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Public [3]
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Deadlines for Plans To Reduce Regional Haze Finally Established [19]

On Nov. 9, 2011, EPA signed a consent decree that requires the agency to receive from and approve a State Implementation Plan for DC, VI, and 43 states that don't have a fully approved one. Each state can determine how it wants to reduce haze. In some cases, the plan will rely on actions already taken, such as reductions in emissions from power plants or vehicles.
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TipSheet [5]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [20]
Air [13]
Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [14]
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Public [3]
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Syngenta Claims Secrecy in Atrazine Trial [23]

Attorneys for some 30 utilities suing Syngenta over atrazine pollution of their drinking water supplies charged the company directed employees to send copies of all correspondence on atrazine to corporate attorneys so that attorney-client privilege could be claimed.
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WatchDog TipSheet [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [14]
Chemicals [12]
Water & Oceans [25]
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Public [3]
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At Last: Study Confirms EPA 'Friday Surprise' Press Release Trend [26]

Researchers at the nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank Resources for the Future fed into their computers some 21,493 press releases issued by EPA between 1994 and 2009, confirming reporters' long-time suspicions.
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WatchDog TipSheet [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [27]
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Public [3]
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Terrified CIA Urged To Shed Secrecy About Climate Threats [28]

The Central Intelligence Agency is spending untold millions to study the national security threats presented by climate change. Now the Pentagon's Defense Science Board (DSB) is urging that another, new office be created to do the same job, for more untold millions.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [27]
Climate Change [29]
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Public [3]
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White House Gives House Inquisitors Only Some of Subpoenaed Documents [30]

The White House rejected the House Energy Committee's subpoena for "all internal communications" related to federal loan guarantees for the now-bankrupt Solyndra solar panel company.
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WatchDog TipSheet [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [27]
Energy & Fuel [16]
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Public [3]
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Justice Dept. Ditches Its Proposal To Lie About Existence of FOIA Records [31]

The regulatory proposal was part of a large package of revised FOIA regulations, which will go forward without it. The Justice Department did not rescind the 1987 Meese memo the proposal was based on; instead it identified ways in which agencies could be unresponsive and uninformative without actually lying.
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WatchDog TipSheet [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Policy [32]
Laws & Regulations [22]
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Public [3]
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