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- The guidance was the latest in a series of orders seeking to turn around Bush administration secrecy, although "altering the mind set" might make change more difficult than originally thought.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:
EPA Reverses Bush-Era Toxics Release Inventory Blackout
A new rule signed by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson restores cuts in how much data communities can get about nearby industrial releases of toxic substances.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:SEJ Names Finalists For 2006 Awards
Global warming, toxic chemicals and threats to biodiversity were major themes of the best environmental journalism of 2005- 2006, according to judges in the fifth annual contest sponsored by the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Local Food? Tasty And A Good Source Of Stories
By CHERYL DORSCHNER
Attendees at SEJ's 16th Annual Conference in Burlington, Vt., Oct. 25-29, will have a chance to witness a basic, but littleexplored issue for most environment writers: food.
A number of other issues will be explored, of course. But in Vermont, SEJ conference attendees will be able to grapple with the environmental issues of food.
SEJers will address "Eating as an Environmental Act" in a panel discussion Friday, Oct. 27 from 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Top TV Reporters Say Don't Fear The Technical
By MIKE DUNNE
In one case, it was taking a recurring story one step further.In two stories, a phone tip prompted the reporters. Another was a big story for a big anniversary – one that would affect every person on the planet.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:John McPhee: Notes From The Field
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the interview with NPR's Howard Berkes.
Berkes points to a pile of colorful notebooks on the floor of McPhee's office at Princeton University.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:The 'Unreadable' Thing: John McPhee On The Craft Of Writing
By HOWARD BERKES
You might think writing comes easy to John McPhee.He's been at it more than 40 years, after all, producing 27 books, writing for The New Yorker since 1964 and teaching writing at Princeton since 1975. And, oh yes, he has that Pulitzer Prize. All those years and words and accomplishments ought to add up to confidence – even hubris, perhaps – when turning a sea of complex detail, facts and characters into smoothly flowing narrative.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:EPA Moves To Cut Shipping Emissions at US Ports
Proposed emission standards in a proposed control area around the US coastline would cut sulfur in fuel by 98 percent, particulate matter emissions by 85 percent, and nitrogen oxide emissions by 80 percent from the current global requirements.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Volunteers Pitch in To Identify Invasive Plants and Animals
Covering volunteer ID efforts provides both a way to bring the issue to the attention of your audience, and to personalize how the general public can help address the problem.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Water Utilities Get Huge Increase in Federal Funding
The Obama administration pumps up support for thousands of drinking water systems in the US with about $2B.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility: