"ALBANY — After four rounds of hearings, hundreds of thousands of public comments, two governors and a pair of voluminous draft reports, New York’s review of hydraulic fracturing is now taking place entirely behind closed doors."
Here is EPA Associate Administrator for External Affairs Tom Reynolds' reply of January 29, 2014, to the SEJ/SPJ letter of January 20.
"WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency monitored the communications of other governments ahead of and during the 2009 United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark, according to the latest document from whistleblower Edward Snowden."
"The Volokh Conspiracy, a blog of climate conspiracy theorists, is now part of the Washington Post."
"In late March 2012, Kari Norgaard, a University of Oregon sociology and environmental studies professor, was flying home from a conference in England. She landed in Washington, D.C., checked her email and noticed a message from Marc Morano, a global warming skeptic who runs the blog Climate Depot, criticizing the research she had presented at the conference."
Thanks to generous funding from the Grantham Foundation, and individual members and friends of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), we are pleased to announce grants totaling $12,500 to five journalism projects selected in SEJ’s Fund for Environmental Journalism Winter 2013 grant cycle. Pictured: FEJ grantee Douglas Haynes.
Here is the text of an e-mail reply of January 22, 2014, from CDC Public Affairs Director Barbara Reynolds to the letter of January 20 from SEJ and SPJ on press access obstacles after the Charleston, WV, water contamination crisis.
Here is the text of an e-mail reply of January 22, 2014, from CDC Public Affairs Director Barbara Reynolds to the letter of January 20 from SEJ and SPJ on press access obstacles after the Charleston, WV, water contamination crisis.
Drones might count as new media — and certainly have journalistic uses in covering everything from prairie fires to chemical emergencies. The federal government, which devotes enormous technical resources to spying on its citizens, now says this is illegal. The Federal Aviation Administration issued the ruling, saying there was no grey area: hobbyists can legally fly video drones. But journalists can not. Image: Cade Cleavelin, a science/ag journalism senior at U of Missouri, demonstrates a DJY Phantom quadcopter at the 2013 SEJ Conference in Chattanooga, TN. © Roger Archibald.
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