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- For more than seven months, the nation's top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:
Access to Congress: A Few Coverage Tips and Tricks
The U.S. Congress can be even more frustrating to cover than executive agencies.
SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:SEJournal Fall 2007, Vol. 17 No. 3

In this issue: Editors focus new attention on climate change, environment...for the complete hotlinked table of contents, click on the journal cover.
SEJ Publication Types:Visibility:SEJournal Winter 2008, Vol. 17 No. 4

In this issue: Covering coal country; Three decades on the beat; Photography for reporters; Network news going green; Undersea reporting...for the complete hotlinked table of contents click, on the journal cover.
SEJ Publication Types:Visibility:SEJournal Spring 2008, Vol. 18 No.1

In this issue: Tarbell: first to take on big oil; Environment books of the year; Oil on the Brain tracts crude to gas; Conference agenda sneak peek; FOIA successes...for complete hotlinked table of contents, click the journal cover.
SEJ Publication Types:Visibility:FERC Slightly Eases Some Secrecy Requirements
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has slightly relaxed some requirements for secrecy on decisions it makes on "critical energy infrastructure."
SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:CRS PUBLISHES BACKGROUNDER ON JOURNALISTS' PRIVILEGE
The Oct. 18, 2007 issue of Congressional Research Service has published a useful backgrounder on the current lack of a "shield law" protecting reporters from legal penalties, including jail, when they refuse prosecutors' requests to disclose the identities of confidential sources.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:PENNSYLVANIA FORBIDS LABELING OF MILK PRODUCED WITHOUT ARTIFICIAL HORMONES
Consumers who want to choose milk produced without the use of artificial hormones are out of luck - if they live in Pennsylvania. That is not a choice the state will allow them.Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Artist Sues Local Cops Over Right To Photograph Power Lines
Shirley E. Scheier, a University of Washington fine-arts professor, was handcuffed, frisked, and detained for 44 minutes when she took some art photos of powerlines against the sky in Snohomish County, Washington.
SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:SEJ, OTHER J-GROUPS ASK SENATE TO DROP ANIMAL SECRECY
Even as major companies recalled their shipments of hamburgers made with possibly tainted meat, beef and pork lobbyists worked hard to keep U.S meat eaters from finding out what was going on. They lobbied to amend the Farm Bill to include secrecy language that would make make it illegal for anyone to publicly disclose such information. SEJ and other journalism organization are urging senators to remove that language from the bill.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:










