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Federal Environment & Energy Line-Up for 2009 (Part 2) [1]

The Obama administration is taking shape with many key environmental appointments to the cabinet and elsewhere. This is the second half of our guide to the new players, their backgrounds and agendas.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Energy & Fuel [3]
Government [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Science [6]
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National (U.S.) [7]
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Public [8]

Boulder, CO 1991 [9]

SEJ's 1st Annual Conference: Sessions on using computers to analyze environmental data; reporting risk; the society's first elections.

Initiatives: 
SEJ Annual Conferences [10]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
Region: 
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [11]

Ann Arbor, MI 1992 [12]

SEJ's 2nd Annual Conference: The auto industry; Lois Gibbs of the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste; environmental beat veterans talk about their experiences.

Initiatives: 
SEJ Annual Conferences [10]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
Region: 
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [13]

Durham, NC 1993 [14]

SEJ's 3rd Annual Conference: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt; White House Office of Environmental Policy director Katy McGinty; a plenary on "backlash" reporting.

Initiatives: 
SEJ Annual Conferences [10]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
Region: 
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]

Utah 1994 [16]

SEJ's 4th Annual Conference: Writers William Least Heat Moon and Terry Tempest Williams; Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary; EPA Administrator Carol Browner.

Initiatives: 
SEJ Annual Conferences [10]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
Region: 
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [11]

Boston, MA 1995 [17]

SEJ's 5th Annual Conference, hosted by MIT's Knight Science Journalism program: Vice President Al Gore addresses the conference; naturalist E.O. Wilson; authors Richard Rhodes and Jonathan Weiner.

Initiatives: 
SEJ Annual Conferences [10]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
Region: 
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [18]

St. Louis, MO 1996 [19]

SEJ's 6th Annual Conference: The environment in the 104th Congress; and the doomsayers square off against the naysayers in a lunchtime plenary.

Initiatives: 
SEJ Annual Conferences [10]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
Region: 
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]

Tucson, AZ 1997 [20]

SEJ's 7th Annual Conference: The border environment; four years after NAFTA; an address by Stewart Udall; Biosphere II; and remembering Edward Abbey.

Initiatives: 
SEJ Annual Conferences [10]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
Region: 
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [21]

Chattanooga, TN 1998 [22]

SEJ's 8th Annual Conference: A smokestack city cleans itself up; revisiting the snail darter saga; addresses by Ted Turner and Sylvia Earle.

Initiatives: 
SEJ Annual Conferences [10]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
Region: 
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]

Los Angeles, CA 1999 [23]

SEJ's 9th Annual Conference: Urban sprawl; Hollywood, the press and the environment, with panelists Ted Danson, Ed Begley Jr., and Keely Shaye Smith; keynote address by David Brower; and a Sunday morning talk by Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams.

Initiatives: 
SEJ Annual Conferences [10]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
Region: 
California [24]

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