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May 30, 2012

Implications of a Data-Driven Built Environment [1]

The intention of this event, hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences, is to look at the potential data pool for the entire real estate industry and draw out the value between data sets and determine what data should be collected in order achieve sustainability and market transformation goals.

Other Events [2]
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Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Planning & Growth [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Climate Change [6]
Region: 
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [7]

"Conservative Nonprofit Acts as a Stealth Business Lobbyist" [8]

The American Legislative Exchange Council -- ALEC -- has for decades worked to fight protection of public health from environmental threats. Funded with corporate money, the group has won non-profit tax status from the federal government even as it lobbies for industrial interests on an industrial scale. Now, because it backed the gun law that kept Trayvon Martin's killer from arrest, some large corporations are cashing out from ALEC.

Activism [9]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NY Times [13], 04/23/2012

"The Koch Brothers – Exposed!" [14]

"If the Koch brothers didn't exist, the left would have to invent them. They're the plutocrats from central casting -- oil-and-gas billionaires ready to buy any congressman, fund any lie, fight any law, bust any union, despoil any landscape, or shirk any (tax) burden to push their free-market religion and pump up their profits."

Activism [9]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Politics [10]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Rolling Stone [15], 04/23/2012

BP To Get Gulf Oil Spill Information Withheld from Public [16]

After complaints from BP, the US government agreed to give the company evidence of the basis for its calculation of the flow rate from the stricken Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. The government will hand over to BP some 100 documents about the size of the 2010 oil spill that have not yet been made public.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat: 
Water & Oceans [18]
Fish & Fisheries [19]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Health [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Economy & Business [5]
Disasters [22]
Region: 
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

Data Accumulates Slowly on What's in Fracking Fluid [24]

If you have a fracking story in your beat, getting information about what's in the controversial fracking fluids may be like pulling teeth. But there are a few resources that can help, such as the "FracFocus" chemical disclosure registry.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat: 
Water & Oceans [18]
Natural Resources [25]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Economy & Business [5]
Chemicals [26]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

New Arizona Law Limits Disclosure of Companies' Environmental Self-Audits [27]

The information would still have to be provided to the state. Companies would not gain immunity from enforcement merely by auditing themselves.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat: 
Laws & Regulations [11]
Economy & Business [5]
Region: 
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [28]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

Denver Post Exposes FDA Secrecy on Food Threats to Public Health [29]

Reporter Michael Booth's story resurrected the old issue of whether the public has a right to know the identity and source of foods in commerce that government agencies actually know may be causing fatal illness. The FDA refused to comment on the story.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [17]
Topics on the Beat: 
Health [30]
Government [31]
Food [32]
Economy & Business [5]
Consumer [33]
Agriculture [34]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

"Obama Wants To Target Oil Market Manipulation" [35]

"President Barack Obama pushed Congress Tuesday to give oil market regulators more muscle to deter price manipulation by speculators, the latest White House response to determined Republican attacks on administration energy policies amid high gas prices at the pump."

Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: AP [36], 04/18/2012
April 25, 2012

DEADLINE: Fellowships for Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development [37]

Internews' Earth Journalism Network (EJN) and O Eco have developed a Fellowship program to bring journalists to the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held June 20-22, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Apply by April 25th.

Workshops and Fellowships [38]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Economy & Business [5]
Disasters [22]
Agriculture [34]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Food [32]
People & Population [39]
Planning & Growth [4]
Water & Oceans [18]
Region: 
South America [40]

Coal Ash Pond Worries Neighbors as Georgia Power Buys, Levels Homes [41]

A coal-fired power plant in Georgia has neighbors worried about the consequences of its ash-disposal pond.

Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Health [20]
Waste [42]
Public [3]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Source: Macon Telegraph [43], 04/16/2012

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