In this issue: Superfund: Toxic waste in your town?; Complex brownfields story produces results; The promise of nonprofit journalism; A morning with Wendell Berry...for the complete hotlinked table of contents, click the issue title.
The Society of Environmental Journalists has urged the Energy Department to abandon a new rule making it easier for the agency to deny or resist Freedom of Information Act requests.
It wasn't exactly a secret that climate change will have drastic and often harmful impacts on the roads and causeways, chemical plants and oil/gas pipelines, and shipping facilities along the Gulf Coast. Two reports released in March had already said so.
But another report on the same subject from the Department of Transportation was buried deep in the bureaucracy - as has been the case with many reports on climate change impacts during the past eight years.
In this issue: Looking at the mundane agencies of your beat may startle; Great Lakes series shows big picture of everyday issue; Bush's "Healthy Forests" lacks solid science frounding; following the money; anatomy of the 9/11 risk-communication fiasco; national reports better define GMO threats; teflon chemical (not in pots and pans but probably in you); and more.
