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Feds Begin To Quantify Hidden Climate Change Costs

As debate over climate legislation rages, reporters will encounter many confusing and seemingly contradictory statements about the costs of changing US energy practices. You may help your audience with an understanding of how incomplete the cost figures cited by companies and politicians often are.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change
Economy & Business
Government
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
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US, Canada, Mexico Aim To Coordinate Toxics Databases

The North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (NAPRTR) Consultative Group, under the auspices of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, will meet November 10-11, 2009, in Guadalajara, Mexico to review the programs of the 3 countries.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals
Region:
International
Canada
National (U.S.)
Mexico
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Public
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EPA Uses Online Forum To Address TRI Mining Changes

EPA seems to be making efforts to use social media to improve public participation in its decisions, says the watchdog group OMB Watch, citing the TRI forum as one example of several.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources
Government
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
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Advisory Arrives Hours After Vilsack Presser

You know you are not on the A-list when the press advisory is sent to you after the press conference takes place, as one SEJ member experienced on October 16, 2009.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Government
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
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EPA Releases Bush-Suppressed Endangerment Finding

Persistence pays off for Greenwire reporter Darren Samuelsohn who filed his first Freedom of Information Act request for it back in July 2008, re-filed it in January 2009 at the start of the Obama administration, and finally received it October 13, 2009.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Government
Journalism & Media
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
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EPA Names 31 Areas Not Meeting Fine Particulate Air Standards

These communities will have to come up with plans for reducing fine particle pollution. Is yours one of them?
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Air
Pollution
Government
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
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USGS Offers Early Warning On Wildlife Die-Offs

You may find a local wildlife story by keeping your eye on the US Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center which keeps constant surveillance on outbreaks of wildlife disease and posts the information online as it comes in.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity
Government
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
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Supreme Court Property Rights Case Has Environmental Implications

The Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Dec. 2, 2009. The case, which started with legal action in 2004, involves a dispute over restoration of a stretch of Florida panhandle beaches damaged by storms.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth
Laws & Regulations
Water & Oceans
People & Population
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN)
Visibility:
Public
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100s of National Park Sites Threatened by Climate Change

A new report identifies 25 park units considered to be most threatened, but the vulnerability principles spill over to hundreds of additional national park units and other types of natural areas that may be of interest to your audience.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change
Natural Resources
Region:
National (U.S.)
Visibility:
Public
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SEJournal Fall 2009, Vol. 19 No. 3

In this issue: New Journalism-Science Initiatives; Veteran Newspaper Writer Finds Teaching's Hidden Pleasures; Photographers Document and Protect Borderland Environments; Germ Killer, Largely Unregulated, Attracts New Concern for Wildlife; Improve Your Video — Get Good Audio; and more.

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