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Journalist Sues AG Department Over Feedlot 'Phone Book' Secrecy [1]

A freelance journalist is challenging in court the US Department of Agriculture's efforts to keep secret its data on who owns the feedlots Americans can see and smell, but whose pollution the food industry does not want USDA to regulate.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Food [3]
Pollution [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [5]
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Public [6]

New Rail Hazmat Regs Include Non-Disclosure Provisions [7]

A rule issued April 16, 2008, ostensibly to keep the public safe from shipments of highly hazardous materials by rail, has been little-understood by the public.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Disasters [8]
Pollution [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

"Diagnosis: Mercury, Money, Politics & Poison" [9]

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [12]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Food [3]
Government [14]
Health [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [17]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

"Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children" [18]

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [19]
Chemicals [11]
Food [3]
Health [15]
Pollution [4]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

If Pollution Cleanup Sounds Too Good To Be True, Maybe It Is [20]

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [21]
Topics on the Beat: 
Government [14]
Pollution [4]
Region: 
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [22]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

A Federal Superfund Site Near You May Hold a Great Story [23]

SEJ Publication Types: 
Backgrounders [24]
Topics on the Beat: 
Government [14]
Policy [25]
Pollution [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Utilities Say Public Can't Handle the Truth About Drugs in Water [26]

When water providers find pharmaceuticals in drinking water, they rarely tell the public.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [17]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Read It Now: Suppressed CDC Great Lakes Toxics Report [27]

After Congressional Democrats criticized them for suppressing a report on toxic substances in the Great Lakes, and after an independent investigative journalism group published excerpts, the Centers for Disease Control finally published it March 12, 2008.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [17]
Region: 
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Use It or Lose It: EPA Releases Toxics Data Feb. 24 [29]

EPA made public the latest year's data from the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) February 21, 2008, catching a few journalists by surprise, as usual.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Pollution [4]
Journalism & Media [30]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

EPA Would Suppress Info on Toxic Gases From Feedlots at Industry Urging [31]

Large feedlots would no longer have to report toxic emissions under a rule proposed Dec. 21, 2007, by EPA.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Food [3]
Pollution [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

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