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Newsroom Cuts: Environment Beat Takes Hit in 2008 Recession [1]

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Features [2]
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A Media Future? How Nonprofit Journalism Offered Me a New Chance [4]

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Features [2]
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Tale of a Seattle River Engages Public In Pollution [5]

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Inside Story [6]
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A Federal Superfund Site Near You May Hold a Great Story [7]

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Backgrounders [8]
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Government [9]
Policy [10]
Pollution [11]
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National (U.S.) [12]
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Public [3]
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SEJournal Winter 2008-09, Vol. 18 No. 4 [13]

In this issue: Superfund: Toxic waste in your town?; Complex brownfields story produces results; The promise of nonprofit journalism; A morning with Wendell Berry...for the complete hotlinked table of contents, click the issue title.

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SEJournal Online [14]
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Bush OMB Claims Public Health Endangerment As Secret [15]

The White House Office of Management and Budget has denied a FOIA request by the online newsletter Greenwire to release EPA's public health "endangerment finding" on climate change.
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WatchDog TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [17]
Health [18]
Government [9]
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National (U.S.) [12]
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Public [3]
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SEJ Urges Prompt, Full EPA Release of Ash Spill Testing Data [19]

SEJ urged EPA Region 4 to release promptly and fully any environmental monitoring data it collects related to the December 2008 spill of coal ash from an east Tennessee impoundment.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [9]
Journalism & Media [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [21]
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Public [3]
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SEJ Urges Energy Department To Drop New Secrecy Rule [22]

The Society of Environmental Journalists has urged the Energy Department to abandon a new rule making it easier for the agency to deny or resist Freedom of Information Act requests.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [23]
Journalism & Media [20]
Government [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [12]
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Public [3]
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DOT Stifles Report on How Climate Change Will Affect Gulf Coast Infrastructure [24]

It wasn't exactly a secret that climate change will have drastic and often harmful impacts on the roads and causeways, chemical plants and oil/gas pipelines, and shipping facilities along the Gulf Coast. Two reports released in March had already said so.
But another report on the same subject from the Department of Transportation was buried deep in the bureaucracy - as has been the case with many reports on climate change impacts during the past eight years.
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WatchDog TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [17]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [21]
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Public [3]
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Utilities Say Public Can't Handle the Truth About Drugs in Water [25]

When water providers find pharmaceuticals in drinking water, they rarely tell the public.
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WatchDog TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [26]
Region:
National (U.S.) [12]
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Public [3]
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