A Federal Superfund Site Near You May Hold a Great Story
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SEJournal Winter 2008-09, Vol. 18 No. 4
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.
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2005 Archives: SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues
November 15, 2005
SEJ joins call for post-Katrina FEMA contract disclosure
SEJ joined a number of open-government groups in urging President Bush to post online full copies of all contracts and other paperwork authorizing spending for relief and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina.
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November 29, 2006
SEJ urges NIEHS not to privatize environmental health magazine
SEJ wrote the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences today, asking him to abandon plans to downgrade and privatize its flagship, open-access journal, Environmental Health Perspectives. The magazine is renowned for publishing free online cutting-edge research on relevant and timely topics — in non-technical terms and in multiple languages.
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2007 Archives: SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues
December 12, 2007
SEJ president testifies at Interior photo-fee hearing
The Society of Environmental Journalists told the House Natural Resources Committee Dec. 12 that the Interior Department could unduly restrict news media access to parks and refuges with its proposed rule requiring fees and permits for "commercial filming."
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2008 Archives: SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues
December 19, 2008
SEJ voices concern over axing of CNN enviro-science units
The Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) joined several national and international science journalism organizations in writing a strong letter to CNN regarding its "shortsighted decision to cut its science, technology and environment unit in one fell swoop.... at a time when science coverage could not be more important in our national and international discourse."
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Bush OMB Claims Public Health Endangerment As Secret
The White House Office of Management and Budget has denied a FOIA request by the online newsletter Greenwire to release EPA's public health "endangerment finding" on climate change.
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SEJ Urges Prompt, Full EPA Release of Ash Spill Testing Data
SEJ urged EPA Region 4 to release promptly and fully any environmental monitoring data it collects related to the December 2008 spill of coal ash from an east Tennessee impoundment.
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SEJ Urges Energy Department To Drop New Secrecy Rule
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.
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SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues
See the latest actions taken by SEJ advocating access to environmental information, press freedom and supporting the media's right to know on behalf of the public, including urging the Veterans Administration to stop investigating its employees for speaking to the press, condemning the ICE arrest of a Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez, urging strengthening of New York's FOIL and condemning the arrests of journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort.
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