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Small Texas Daily Tackles Complex Issue By Focusing on a Basic Human Need: Safety

Denton Record-Chronicle city hall reporters Lowell Brown and Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe tackle environmental issues as part of their everyday coverage. SEJournal has the inside story on their award-winning shale-gas-drilling series, which revealed through one neighborhood's ordeal how land deals really work in Texas and the impacts of the controversial technology.

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SEJournal Spring 2010, Vol. 20 No. 1

In this issue: When mute swans become a menace; Multimedia training smorgasbord; Scientist's efforts to "persuade the public" have professional costs; Small Texas daily tackles complex issue by focusing on safety; Journalists using term "green"; Sundance roundup; much more...

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EPA Releases HERO Risk Assessment Database

The Health and Environmental Research Online database compiles references to scientific studies that EPA uses in making regulatory decisions.

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EPA Makes TSCA Inventory Available Online for Free

But the list — the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory — is still minus some 17,000 chemicals that manufacturers allege are trade secrets.
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Senate Trio's Climate Bill Said To Hide Info on Fracking Poisons

A March 23, 2010, Greenwire article reports that the draft Kerry-Lieberman-Graham climate bill may include language to keep potentially toxic ingredients from gas drilling secret from the public whose health may be harmed by them.
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SEJ Comments on How To Make EPA More Open

SEJ's suggestions included an end to requiring Saddam-style "minders" and press-office permissions before reporters could talk to EPA scientists and staff; prompter PIO callbacks and interviews; an end to automatic "background;" and more.
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SEJ Supports 'Faster FOIA' Bill

Bill S 3111, introduced on March 15, 2010, by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy and cosponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), would create a panel to study ways to reduce FOIA delays.
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Renewable Energy & Superfund Sites: Watts Up?

A new project of EPA and the National Renewable Energy Lab will analyze development potential for wind, solar, or small hydro power at contaminated sites in various stages of cleanup.
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Feds Launch New Tool For Locating Endangered Species

Find out if an endangered or threatened animal or plant species lives in counties of interest to your audience, and cover it in the context of current news developments or some other at-risk-species angle.
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Birds: New Listings, Cutting-Edge Research, and At-Risk Assessments

For the first time in 25 years, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has updated the list of federally-protected migratory birds. The net result is the addition of 175 species, bringing the total to 1,007.
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Publication Items

Small Texas Daily Tackles Complex Issue By Focusing on a Basic Human Need: Safety

SEJournal Spring 2010, Vol. 20 No. 1

EPA Releases HERO Risk Assessment Database

EPA Makes TSCA Inventory Available Online for Free

Senate Trio's Climate Bill Said To Hide Info on Fracking Poisons

SEJ Comments on How To Make EPA More Open

SEJ Supports 'Faster FOIA' Bill

Renewable Energy & Superfund Sites: Watts Up?

Feds Launch New Tool For Locating Endangered Species

Birds: New Listings, Cutting-Edge Research, and At-Risk Assessments

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