Publication Items

Center For Public Integrity Gets SPJ Prize For Superfund Probe [1]

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 [3]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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TOOLBOX: Environmental Databases Rich With Reporting Tools -- Despite Limits [7]

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 [7]
White-House-Suppressed Climate 'Endangerment Finding' Released [8]

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 [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about White-House-Suppressed Climate 'Endangerment Finding' Released [8]
Cheney's Office Censored Warming Testimony [11]

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 [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Cheney's Office Censored Warming Testimony [11]
Reprint: A Reporter's Bill Of Rights [12]

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 [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Reprint: A Reporter's Bill Of Rights [12]
EPA Gag Order Brings Call For Johnson Resignation (Part 1) [14]

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 [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about EPA Gag Order Brings Call For Johnson Resignation (Part 1) [14]
Voluntary Effort To Collect Nanotech Info Flounders [15]

EPA calls for companies to submit information on their nanotechnology products. The silence is deafening.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [17]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Voluntary Effort To Collect Nanotech Info Flounders [15]
New Science Clarifies NO2 Health Effects [18]

EPA reviews its health-based standard for NO₂ as an air pollutant, and has issued a science assessment of health effects.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [19]
Health [20]
Pollution [21]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about New Science Clarifies NO2 Health Effects [18]
States Shift Work Schedules to Save Energy [22]

Utah governor Jon Huntsman announced that state agencies will move to a four-day workweek (10 hours/day, with mandatory three-day weekends) in order to save energy, reduce vehicle miles traveled in the state, and address climate change and air pollution.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [23]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about States Shift Work Schedules to Save Energy [22]
EPA Proposes Water Efficiency Standard [24]

EPA is developing a voluntary water efficiency standard for new single-family homes and townhomes.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [25]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about EPA Proposes Water Efficiency Standard [24]

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