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Climate Adaptation Story Reaches Tipping Point

This special report on climate change adaptation will help environmental journalists better understand and cover this growing topic. Top-notch beat reporters share how to best get at the nuts and bolts of adaptation in coastal communities and agricultural ones, a leading communications thinker shares insights into the “message” of adaptation, and we provide snapshots of a few of the many noteworthy adaptation projects, as well as the special challenges faced in one developing nation.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change
Journalism & Media
Visibility:
Public
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Reasons for Hope on Enviro Beat

SEJ President Don Hopey reminds us it’s good to remember that environmental journalism can play an important role in digging out the information an increasingly distracted public needs to make tough policy decisions about their environment and health.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media
Visibility:
Public
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"Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer"

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media
Military
Visibility:
Public
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"Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project"

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Studies
Journalism & Media
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
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"The Last Atoll: Exploring Hawai’i’s Endangered Ecosystems"

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources
Planning & Growth
Pollution
Wildlife
Visibility:
Public
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"Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America ’s Children"

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals
Environmental Politics
Health
People & Population
Visibility:
Public
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Improvement Iffy, Slow on Obama Administration's Openness Report Card

OpenTheGovernment.org publishes an annual report on quantifying government secrecy with specific numeric indicators. This year it began with a bombshell statement — saying it could not really guarantee all of its numbers because nobody could any longer trust what the US government tells its citizens in this area.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Government
Visibility:
Public
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EPA Settles Court Bid To Keep Luminant Pollution Data "Confidential" (Cough, Cough)

A U.S. district judge on October 2, 2013, brushed aside claims by EPA and the Luminant Corp. that information related to pollution from the company's coal-burning power plants was "confidential business information" — which seems to be a growing excuse for withholding public-interest information.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution
Energy & Fuel
Visibility:
Public
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Toxic Tank Cars? There's an App for That

When the Oregon government refused to tell her about oil trains, Eugene Weekly environment reporter Camilla Mortensen (pictured) learned about them from a train-hopping local cinematographer. Now you can roam the freight yards with your camera and know what you are looking at. And/or download the UN Number app.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Transportation
Disasters
Chemicals
Region:
Northwest (OR WA)
Visibility:
Public
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Also Shut Down: Government Transparency

If you have a FOIA request pending, it is likely to be on hold. Moreover, the people who could verify this are not answering the phone. Want to file a new FOIA request? Good luck. The federal government is shut down, and as of now there is no sign that it will go back to work.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Government
Visibility:
Public
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Publication Items

Climate Adaptation Story Reaches Tipping Point

Reasons for Hope on Enviro Beat

"Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer"

"Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project"

"The Last Atoll: Exploring Hawai’i’s Endangered Ecosystems"

"Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America ’s Children"

Improvement Iffy, Slow on Obama Administration's Openness Report Card

EPA Settles Court Bid To Keep Luminant Pollution Data "Confidential" (Cough, Cough)

Toxic Tank Cars? There's an App for That

Also Shut Down: Government Transparency

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