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Dams and Levees: Introduction [1]

This special issue of the WatchDog focuses on the transparency of safety information related to dams, levees, impoundments, and related water-control structures. For environmental journalists, these subjects offer a goldmine of great story possibilities. These are stories that have not been covered much in the past decade, and stories that fit well at the local, state, or regional level.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Water & Oceans [3]
Planning & Growth [4]
People & Population [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [6]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Disasters [8]
Visibility: 
Public [9]

Dam Secrecy Endangers Lives, Property of US Public in Many States [10]

What You Don't Know Might Kill You

Tens of thousands of U.S. citizens are at risk from potential dam disasters, yet state and federal agencies hold to a policy that amounts to "out of sight, out of mind."

Visibility: 
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [11]
Water & Oceans [3]
Planning & Growth [4]
People & Population [5]
Disasters [8]

Get Feet Wet on Coastal Adaptation [12]

Special Report: Part Three

By KATE SHEPPARD

Americans — and humans in general — have long flocked to the coasts. Thirty-nine percent of the U.S. population, or about 123 million of us, live in coastal counties. But many in coastal areas are finding it increasingly less hospitable due to sea-level rise and extreme weather events linked to climate change. As communities figure out how to adapt to these changes, it is often environmental journalists who are being asked to cover these complex stories.

Topics on the Beat: 
Water & Oceans [3]
Planning & Growth [4]
People & Population [5]
Climate Change [13]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
October 30, 2013

Panel Discussion: Emissions Images from the Mixing Layer [14]

NYC is a Methane Ticking Time Bomb. The Cooper Union invites you to learn why via science, legal and citizen experts at this free public event, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Visibility: 
Public [9]
Topics on the Beat: 
People & Population [5]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Climate Change [13]
Pollution [15]
Region: 
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [16]

The Dirt on Ag & Adaptation [17]

Special Report: Part One

By CHRIS CLAYTON

If you’re looking to connect average Americans to climate change and to how they will have to adapt to it, why not report on the future of food and agriculture? After all, most Americans may not visit the polar ice caps, but everyone needs to eat.

Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [13]
Food [18]
People & Population [5]
Planning & Growth [4]
Visibility: 
Public [9]

"Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America ’s Children" [19]

 

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [20]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Health [23]
People & Population [5]
Visibility: 
Public [9]

"Japan’s Nuclear Refugees, Still Stuck in Limbo" [24]

"While the continuing environmental disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has grabbed world headlines — with hundreds of tons of contaminated water flowing into the Pacific Ocean daily — a human crisis has been quietly unfolding. Two and a half years after the plant belched plumes of radioactive materials over northeast Japan, the almost 83,000 nuclear refugees evacuated from the worst-hit areas are still unable to go home."

Disasters [8]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [6]
People & Population [5]
Public [9]
International [25]
Source: NY Times [26], 10/02/2013

"The Wound That Won’t Heal: Idaho’s Phosphate Problem" [27]

"An elemental phosphorus plant owned by the FMC Corp., on the Shoshone-Bannock homelands in Idaho, has been abandoned for more than a decade. But its legacy of pollution remains -- and it’s jeopardizing economic progress, public and environmental health on the reservation and in surrounding communities."

Natural Resources [28]
People & Population [5]
Pollution [15]
Public [9]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [29]
Source: Indian Country Today [30], 09/26/2013

"The Battle Over San Diego's Barrio Logan" [31]

Residents of a largely Latino San Diego neighborhood have three times the chance of having asthma.

People & Population [5]
Pollution [15]
Public [9]
California [32]
Source: KPCC [33], 09/26/2013

"The Duwamish River’s Deadly Catches" [34]

"As he waits for crabs to take his bait, the Cambodian man explains his approach to eating seafood out of the Duwamish River. 'If it comes up black ... I throw it back,' he says. 'But if it looks normal, that means it just swam up from the Sound. It’s OK to eat.'"

Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [35]
Fish & Fisheries [36]
People & Population [5]
Public [9]
Northwest (OR WA) [37]
Source: Seattle Weekly [38], 09/12/2013

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