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- If you report for a coastal region where fisheries are important, it's a good time to investigate the membership makeup of your regional Fishery Management Council.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:
Feds Focus on 24 Solar Sites in 6 Western States
Good solar potential, relative proximity to existing or potential energy transmission corridors, and the perception of the fewest conflicts with existing land uses and the natural environment were factors in site selection.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Visibility:EPA: Most US Residents Exposed to Excessive Air Pollution Risk
While it does have limitations, the updated National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment offers risk estimates for each of 180 substances, and three separate combined assessments.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:The Devastation Ran Clear Down to Plaquemines
By Amy Wold
Two days after Hurricane Katrina, my editor called me over to his desk and pointed to a place on the map below New Orleans. He said, "Try to get somewhere in this area."
At the time there were four adults, two dogs and two children (some of whom were New Orleans evacuees) staying in my onebedroom home so getting "somewhere in this area" sounded like a really good idea.
Topics on the Beat:Visibility:Lake Charles Newspaper Staff Persists Against Rita's Fury
By JEREMY HARPER
When I went to sleep Wednesday, Sept. 21, Hurricane Rita was threatening the Texas coast, promising to pester Louisiana with no more than a quick bout of tropical storm conditions. I was prepared to ride out the fringe of the storm in either my apartment on the second floor of a sturdy historic building in downtown Lake Charles, La., a city of 75,000 about 40 miles inland of the Gulf of Mexico, or in the newsroom of the American Press, the city's daily newspaper where I have worked for four years as a reporter.Topics on the Beat:Visibility:'Carbon Black' Report Shows Impacts On Native Americans
By MIKE DUNNE
An effort to document the lives of Oklahoma Indians introduced reporter Vicki Monks to a story that begged to be told: how a carbon black plant affected the health of a neighboring Ponca Indian community.
Carbon black, made by the burning of waste oil, is used primarily to strengthen the rubber in tires.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Rockefeller Introduces Bill To Outlaw Bayer Chem-Secrecy Ruse
Rockefeller's bill keeps FOIA exemptions for real security information, but forbids using the "sensitive security information" stamp.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Visibility:High Court To Rule on Whether "Animal Cruelty" Is Exempt From 1st Amendment
This case may make it illegal for journalists to cover animal cruelty cases like the Michael Vicks dogfighting prosecution — or even to shoot investigative video of out-of-season fishing.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Bills Seek Disclosure of "Fracking" Chemicals That May Threaten Drinking Wells
Proposed legislation would repeal a provision allowing secrecy over chemicals injected underground during high-tech gas drilling — such as benzene and toluene, which are known to be toxic.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Coal-Waste Impoundment Database Offers Journalists a Tool
A cooperative effort of federal and state agencies, coal companies, and environmental groups, the database lists coal-waste impoundments in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility: