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EPA Libraries Open Doors [1]

EPA reopened five libraries September 30, 2008, after fighting its own scientists, enforcement lawyers, open-information groups, and eventually Congress for two years in an unsuccessful effort to keep them closed.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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House Panel Probes Political Censorship of Science at EPA [7]

More details of White House efforts to silence science at EPA emerged at a September 18, 2008, hearing of a House Energy investigations panel.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [8]
Journalism & Media [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about House Panel Probes Political Censorship of Science at EPA [7]
Follow the Money: Oil and Coal Edition [9]

Deep Throat's advice was never more needed: "Follow the money." Those reporters who want to follow Deep Throat's advice now have tools undreamed of in Woodward and Bernstein's hey-day.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [10]
Journalism & Media [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Follow the Money: Oil and Coal Edition [9]
More Tools for Covering Capitol Hill — From Outside the Beltway [11]

Reporters on "Main Street" need not feel hindered in covering action on Capitol Hill. Here are more tools for Outside-the-Beltway reporters who want to keep an eye on Congress.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about More Tools for Covering Capitol Hill — From Outside the Beltway [11]
New GAO Report Suggests EPA Doesn't Have a Clue on CAFO Toxics [12]

A Congressional watchdog is saying efforts to exempt feedlot air emissions from standard EPA toxics reporting are based on little or no information.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [13]
Pollution [14]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about New GAO Report Suggests EPA Doesn't Have a Clue on CAFO Toxics [12]
UCS to Release Agency Media Policies Study in October [15]

A forthcoming report by the Union of Concerned Scientists — expected the second week of October 2008 — will provide the most extensive documentation to date of federal agency press policies and their impact on environmental reporting.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about UCS to Release Agency Media Policies Study in October [15]
EPA'S IRIS Chemical Risk Database in Shambles: GAO [16]

Interference by the White House Office of Management and Budget has badly damaged the "credibility and timeliness" of IRIS.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about EPA'S IRIS Chemical Risk Database in Shambles: GAO [16]
TOOLBOX: Online Sources for Researching Medical Literature [17]

A useful roundup of links and leads for reporters researching the published literature on medical and some environmental health topics is available online at LLRX.com.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [18]
Journalism & Media [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about TOOLBOX: Online Sources for Researching Medical Literature [17]
Agency FOIA Logs Posted on Watchdog Site [19]

The FOIA logs of agencies covered by environmental reporters offer fascinating insight into their workings — and some good story ideas.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [8]
Journalism & Media [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Agency FOIA Logs Posted on Watchdog Site [19]
EPA Doesn't Bother to Collect Chemical Safety Data From Companies [20]

Neither EPA nor the American public know very much about the possible health effects of tens of thousands of chemicals used in commerce and consumer products every day.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [21]
Consumer [22]
Government [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about EPA Doesn't Bother to Collect Chemical Safety Data From Companies [20]

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