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NOAA To Swarm Around Tornadoes This Spring [1]

Researchers, journalists in tow, will be chasing tornadoes around the central US in May and June to learn more about how tornadoes work, and better predict them and their paths.
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Disasters [3]
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Science [5]
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National (U.S.) [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [7]
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Toolbox: EPA's Pesticide Emergency Exemptions Database [11]

There could be a story breeding behind the emergency pesticide exemptions — which could number in the hundreds — in your state.
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WatchDog TipSheet [12]
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Chemicals [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
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After Secrecy Claims, Bayer's Own Lapses Revealed as Biggest Threat [15]

A U.S. Chemical Safety Board public hearing, delayed for a month due to Bayer's pleas for secrecy, finds lack of safety to be contributing factors to the 'accident' that killed two at an Institute, WV, plant in August 2008.
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Chemicals [13]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Politics [16]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [17]
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"Trade Secrets" — Largely Untested Grounds for Toxic Secrecy [18]

Witnesses at a House Energy Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection hearing in February said excessive and unjustified claims of "confidential business information" dampen EPA's efforts to regulate commonly used chemicals.
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Economy & Business [19]
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Justice Department Issues New Guidelines on Handling FOIA Requests [20]

The guidance was the latest in a series of orders seeking to turn around Bush administration secrecy, although "altering the mind set" might make change more difficult than originally thought.
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EPA Reverses Bush-Era Toxics Release Inventory Blackout [21]

A new rule signed by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson restores cuts in how much data communities can get about nearby industrial releases of toxic substances.
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Chemicals [13]
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SEJ Names Finalists For 2006 Awards [23]

Global warming, toxic chemicals and threats to biodiversity were major themes of the best environmental journalism of 2005- 2006, according to judges in the fifth annual contest sponsored by the Society of Environmental Journalists.

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Local Food? Tasty And A Good Source Of Stories [25]

 By CHERYL DORSCHNER

Attendees at SEJ's 16th Annual Conference in Burlington, Vt., Oct. 25-29, will have a chance to witness a basic, but littleexplored issue for most environment writers: food.

A number of other issues will be explored, of course. But in Vermont, SEJ conference attendees will be able to grapple with the environmental issues of food.

SEJers will address "Eating as an Environmental Act" in a panel discussion Friday, Oct. 27 from 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

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Food [26]
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Top TV Reporters Say Don't Fear The Technical [27]

 

 By MIKE DUNNE 
In one case, it was taking a recurring story one step further.

In two stories, a phone tip prompted the reporters. Another was a big story for a big anniversary – one that would affect every person on the planet.

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John McPhee: Notes From The Field [28]


Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the interview with NPR's Howard Berkes.

Berkes points to a pile of colorful notebooks on the floor of McPhee's office at Princeton University.

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