Publication Items

Attorney General Sets Openness as Standard for Fed Info [1]

Carrying out a January 21 order by President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder has reversed the so-called "Ashcroft Memo," which had encouraged agencies during the George Bush presidency to err on the side of secrecy.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [3]
Government [4]
Policy [5]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]
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Pitfalls And Challenges Await Those Who Cover Climate Future [8]

By BUD WARD
"Generational."
The term comes to mind in the context of the global climate change challenges and opportunities we all face.
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [9]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]
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SEJ Watchdog Swiftly Responds For More Press Freedom [10]

By TIM WHEELER

A journalist's job is to follow the facts and call them as they appear, no matter which side of a debate they may favor. In the past year, as president of the Society of Environmental Journalists, I've often found myself explaining to various people and groups that the only cause for which SEJ advocates is more and better coverage of the environment.
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [9]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]
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EPA Considers Raising Ethanol Content of Gasoline [11]

On March 6 a coalition of major ethanol producers (Growth Energy) formally requested that EPA raise the cap on the amount of ethanol that can be blended into US gasoline. EPA has 270 days to respond.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [13]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]
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Report: Hints of Substantial Urban Residential Infill [14]

Researchers with EPA's Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation has found that residential development in some metro areas has moved from suburbs and exurbs to infill development within urban areas.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [15]
Consumer [16]
People & Population [17]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]
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Censoring Science: Inside The Political Attack On Dr. James Hansen And The Truth Of Global Warming [18]

by Mark Bowen,
Dutton, 336 pages, $25.95

Reviewed by Craig Pittman

On June 23, 1988, a scientist named Jim Hansen spent five minutes talking to a Senate committee. Hansen said he was 99 percent sure the Earth was getting warmer because of the greenhouse effect, and he predicted that 1988 would turn out to be one of the warmest years on record.

Althoughhe spoke inanIowa-bredmonotone, Hansen's testimony electrified the committee hearing.When he tried to leave,Hansen was surrounded by reporters.
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [19]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]
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The Secret History Of The War On Cancer [20]

By Devra Davis

Basic Books (2007), $27.95
Reviewed by JenniferWeeks

In 1971 President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act, formally launching a war on the second-leading cause of death in the United States. The legislation promised more funding and targeted government support for cancer research. "The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease," Nixon urged in his State of the Union Address earlier that year.
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Journalism & Media [9]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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Millipedes and Moon Tigers: Science and Policy in an Age of Extinction [21]

By Steve Nash
University of Virginia Press, $22.95

Reviewed by Christine Heinrichs

Environmental change manifests in ways so different, its fragments can seem unrelated. Steve Nash's 15 feature articles, brought together in book form, stitches the fragments together, telling a dramatic story of the changes rippling through our world.
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Journalism & Media [9]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]
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Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry Of Everyday Products Who's at Risk And What's At Stake For American Power [22]

By Mark Schapiro
Chelsea Green Publishing, $22.95

Reviewed by Susan Moran

In the quagmire of the Iraq war, the United States has lost credibility as a world leader. In Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products, investigative journalist Mark Schapiro offers another version of the erosion of American leadership. In this case, it's how the U.S. government has gone from one whose environmental laws and regulations were once a model for other nations to one whose standards have fallen so far below those of even some developing nations.
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [9]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]
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Slideshows Can Highlight Big Projects, Offer Readers More [23]

By CASEY McNERTHNEY

Every story has moments that get left out in the retelling. Sometimes those moments are what reporters remember most, but have a hard time describing in a print news story.

Because of the Internet, those moments—both in images and audio—now can be shared with the readers.

The inflections in a source's voice, the photos that help explain, the odds and ends you collect that would normally be buried on your desk – those now have a place in an online slideshow.
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Journalism & Media [9]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]
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