Publication Items

Creek Daylighting: A Stormwater Management Trend [1]

Strenuous local battles sometimes erupt over "daylighting" (freeing streams from culverts and paved channels), an increasingly popular method for state, county, and local governments to improve stormwater management and water quality.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Report Documents Foreign Ownership of U.S. Farm Lands [7]

Foreign ownership of privately-held US agricultural lands, on the rise for the second year in a row, can affect the local economy, politics, culture, foreign investment in the US, food security, and agricultural subsidies.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Economy & Business [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Feds Begin To Quantify Hidden Climate Change Costs [10]

As debate over climate legislation rages, reporters will encounter many confusing and seemingly contradictory statements about the costs of changing US energy practices. You may help your audience with an understanding of how incomplete the cost figures cited by companies and politicians often are.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [9]
Government [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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US, Canada, Mexico Aim To Coordinate Toxics Databases [13]

The North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (NAPRTR) Consultative Group, under the auspices of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, will meet November 10-11, 2009, in Guadalajara, Mexico to review the programs of the 3 countries.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [15]
Region:
International [16]
Canada [17]
National (U.S.) [5]
Mexico [18]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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EPA Uses Online Forum To Address TRI Mining Changes [19]

EPA seems to be making efforts to use social media to improve public participation in its decisions, says the watchdog group OMB Watch, citing the TRI forum as one example of several.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [3]
Government [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Advisory Arrives Hours After Vilsack Presser [20]

You know you are not on the A-list when the press advisory is sent to you after the press conference takes place, as one SEJ member experienced on October 16, 2009.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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EPA Releases Bush-Suppressed Endangerment Finding [21]

Persistence pays off for Greenwire reporter Darren Samuelsohn who filed his first Freedom of Information Act request for it back in July 2008, re-filed it in January 2009 at the start of the Obama administration, and finally received it October 13, 2009.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [12]
Journalism & Media [22]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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EPA Names 31 Areas Not Meeting Fine Particulate Air Standards [23]

These communities will have to come up with plans for reducing fine particle pollution. Is yours one of them?
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [24]
Pollution [25]
Government [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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USGS Offers Early Warning On Wildlife Die-Offs [26]

You may find a local wildlife story by keeping your eye on the US Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center which keeps constant surveillance on outbreaks of wildlife disease and posts the information online as it comes in.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [27]
Government [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Supreme Court Property Rights Case Has Environmental Implications [28]

The Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Dec. 2, 2009. The case, which started with legal action in 2004, involves a dispute over restoration of a stretch of Florida panhandle beaches damaged by storms.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [29]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Water & Oceans [4]
People & Population [31]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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