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Many Environmental Issues Are on 2010 Ballots

Specific or broad environmental issues could play a role as voters decide which candidate to choose in many races. At the same time, the environment continues to score way down the list, according to pollsters, when voters are asked about all their priorities.
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Government
Environmental Politics
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Cell-Phone Industry Seeks To Silence Right-to-Know Demands

The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed suit against San Francisco in response to a right-to-know ordinance it passed guaranteeing consumers information about how much electromagnetic radiation their cell phones were exposing them to.
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Technology
Health
Consumer
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Canada Quashing Climate Science: Critics

The press policy documents, obtained by Margaret Munro of Postmedia News, reveal scientists must get permission to talk to the press — and climate science and oil sands are off limits. Any statements on those topics must be approved by political appointees at the ministerial level.
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Science
Government
Climate Change
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Canada
International
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Spill Panel Complains Transocean Bars Access to Documents, Witness

The owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded, resulting in the April 2010 Gulf oil spill disaster, is refusing to provide safety documents or a spokesperson to testify to a federal investigative panel.
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Disasters
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Interior Cedes to Critics on Scientific Integrity

The revised policy puts the onus on political appointees as well as scientists, declares a presumption of openness in public access to scientific information generated at the agency, and affirms the right of scientific employees to talk to news media and investigative agencies.
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Science
Government
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Taxpayer-Funded Research Remains Available — for Now

SEJ was one of the groups that opposed HR 801, a bill by House Judiciary Chairman John H. Conyers which would allow private journal publishers to copyright scientific articles based on federally funded research.
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Science
Laws & Regulations
Government
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Toolbox: Pipeline Maps Offer Starting Point for Local Stories

The National Pipeline Mapping System, while missing many key pipelines, does show pipeline proximity to densely populated areas, where the greatest threat to life exists.
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WatchDog TipSheet
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Energy & Fuel
Disasters
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Covering Recovery from Disasters

Jim Schwab, manager of the American Planning Association’s Hazards Planning Research Center, writes in Part 1 of a two-part series about the dynamics of recovery, silver linings, and post-disaster journalism.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox
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Disasters
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SEJournal Fall 2010, Vol. 20 No. 3

In this issue: A surge of stories spews from the darkness of the deep ocean BP oil leak; covering recovery from disasters; lionfish, the latest ocean reef invader; SEJ wins prestigious international prize; using humor to promote your online news site.

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Calif. Climate Ballot Fight: National Ripple Effects Either Way

If Proposition 23 passes, it could disrupt plans for many green companies and their suppliers in CA and around the US — not to mention weakening political will in other states, or at the federal level, for tougher green energy policy.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population
Laws & Regulations
Energy & Fuel
Economy & Business
Climate Change
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California
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