In this issue: Remembering Bill Freudenburg; SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism grows; move from daily newspaper job rewards science writer and book author; environment in dramas at Sundance Film Festival; essential reading list for climate change reporters; how to stop procrastinating; students produce impressive series on climate change threats to national security.
SEJ and the Professional Writers’ Association of Canada present a panel at the University of Toronto, moderated by freelance journalist Saul Chernos. Experienced journalists from both the reporting and the editing sides of the business will discuss strategies the country’s top environmentally-minded writers are using to tell and sell their stories.
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Join an expert panel, hosted by Environmental Law Institute, in a discussion of developments in Marcellus Shale, where the issues mirror those of other gas fields across the country, and stay tuned for the second installment on May 19, 2011, Policy Implications of Marcellus Shale Drilling and Fracking.
On April 19 the Supreme Court will hear arguments to decide whether states and private parties can sue power companies under federal common law for contributing to global warming and compel them to cap CO2 emissions. This panel, hosted by Environmental Law Institute, will discuss and debate the major issues at play and the likely outcome of the case.
Air pollution is worsened in Chicago by the Fisk coal-burning power plant built in 1903. It is grandfathered against Clean Air Act requirements for modern pollution controls. Will EPA cave in to Republican pressure to let its pollution keep harming health of Chicagoans?
"Beneath the lush, green hills of eastern Utah's Uinta Basin, where elk, bear and bison outnumber people, the soil is saturated with a sticky tar that may soon provide a new domestic source of petroleum for the United States. It would be a first-of-its kind project in the country that some fear could be a slippery slope toward widespread wilderness destruction."
"U.S. EPA's long-awaited study of formaldehyde's toxicity got panned today by a National Academy of Sciences' panel that sharply disagreed with the agency's conclusions and declared the effort in need of 'substantial revision.'"
"Three gas pipelines have exploded in an Iranain province south of the capital Tehran, a news agency reported Friday, saying the cause was unknown and giving no details of damage or casualties."
"Critics say it's a chemical that could cause infertility or cancer, while others see it speeding the growth of super weeds and causing worrying changes to plants and soil. Backers say it is safe and has made a big contribution to food production."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/publications/sejournal/sejournal-spring-2011-vol-21-no-1
[2] https://www.sej.org/calendar/environment-101-freelancers
[3] https://www.sej.org/library/public/environmental-information-initiative-draft-document
[4] https://www.sej.org/calendar/nuts-and-bolts-marcellus-shale-drilling-and-fracking
[5] https://www.sej.org/calendar/american-electric-power-co-v-connecticut-next-landmark-supreme-court-climate-case
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/smoke-signals-will-epa-cave-republican-pressure
[7] http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-and-energy/magazine/86323/epa-clean-air-act-smog
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/debate-stirred-over-1st-major-us-tar-sands-mine
[9] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_oil_sands
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/nas-reviewers-slam-epas-formaldehyde-assessment
[11] http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/04/08/08greenwire-nas-reviewers-slam-epas-formaldehyde-assessmen-83879.html
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/iran-gas-pipelines-explode-no-reason-given
[13] http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2011/04/08/world/middleeast/international-us-iran-gas-explosion.html
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/cancer-cause-or-crop-aid-herbicide-faces-big-test
[15] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/08/us-glyphosate-epa-idUSTRE7374WX20110408
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