Publication Items

Corps Withholds Dam Inventory Data [1]

The Army Corps of Engineers has stopped giving the public access to a database that shows how well federal agencies are doing at dam safety.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [3]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Study: FOIA Reforms Haven't Brought Better Performance -- Yet [7]

Despite a Bush Executive Order ostensibly aimed at improving agency FOIA performance, most agencies have little to show two years later.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Study: FOIA Reforms Haven't Brought Better Performance -- Yet [7]
National Academies Study Calls for Restoration of Climate Sensors [8]

How can you tell whether global warming is happening if the White House shuts down the satellites needed to sense it by cutting their budgets?
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [9]
Science [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about National Academies Study Calls for Restoration of Climate Sensors [8]
Center For Public Integrity Gets SPJ Prize For Superfund Probe [11]

The Center for Public Integrity gets an award most journalists would envy -- for its Superfund expose.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Waste [12]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Center For Public Integrity Gets SPJ Prize For Superfund Probe [11]
TOOLBOX: Environmental Databases Rich With Reporting Tools -- Despite Limits [13]

There are lots of good databases out there to help environmental reporters. Here are a few more you may not know.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about TOOLBOX: Environmental Databases Rich With Reporting Tools -- Despite Limits [13]
White-House-Suppressed Climate 'Endangerment Finding' Released [14]

How did the White House suppress an EPA finding that human-induced greenhouse warming was a threat to human health (and thus subject to regulation)? By refusing to read it. But you can read it here.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [9]
Environmental Politics [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about White-House-Suppressed Climate 'Endangerment Finding' Released [14]
Cheney's Office Censored Warming Testimony [16]

Vice President Cheney's office blacked out scientific testimony to Congress on the public health consequences of climate change
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Cheney's Office Censored Warming Testimony [16]
Reprint: A Reporter's Bill Of Rights [17]

Here's the press policy a lot of journalists would like to see at all agencies.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [18]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Reprint: A Reporter's Bill Of Rights [17]
EPA Gag Order Brings Call For Johnson Resignation (Part 1) [19]

Revelation of a document instructing EPA staff not to talk to reporters brings calls for the resignation of Administrator Steve Johnson.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [18]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about EPA Gag Order Brings Call For Johnson Resignation (Part 1) [19]
Voluntary Effort To Collect Nanotech Info Flounders [20]

EPA calls for companies to submit information on their nanotechnology products. The silence is deafening.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [22]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Voluntary Effort To Collect Nanotech Info Flounders [20]

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