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This Is Our Time: Opportunity Amid Media Turmoil

By PERRY BEEMAN

I write this as the Winter Olympics end. Some athletes landed hard on the ice or snow and went home without the oversized jewelry they sought. Others turned an ice version of shuffleboard and a snow version of skateboarding into gold medals.

Many were inspired, and inspiring. It brought back memories of the speech '80 U.S. Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks gave in the movie "Miracle." He wanted the young Americans to discard their fear of the Soviets, and said bluntly, "This is YOUR time!"
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Journalism & Media
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National (U.S.)
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New EPA Procedure Improves Transparency on Air Standards

The Obama EPA partially reverses a Bush-era procedure for setting health-based standards under the Clean Air Act.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Air
Health
Government
Region:
National (U.S.)
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Public
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"Crime Scene Cleanup" in Kelly AFB Toxics Case

New evidence indicates the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry fails to protect communities from dangers such as the now-disappearing plumes of toxic groundwater carrying cancer-causing chemicals far beyond the Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio, TX.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals
Pollution
Water & Oceans
Military
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX)
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Public
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List of Nuclear Sites Released in Flub

The Government Printing Office web site apparently took down the publication after discovery of the mistake -- but the entire report is still available on the site of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Nuclear Power & Radiation
Government
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National (U.S.)
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Public
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FDA Mulls Putting Public's Health Above Companies' Trade Secrets

NYT: "The goal is to open up a system in which the agency failed to inform the public that a widely prescribed heartburn drug was especially toxic to babies; that a diabetes medicine and a painkiller increased heart attack risks; and that antidepressants increased suicidal thoughts and behavior in children and teenagers."
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
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Chemicals
Health
Government
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National (U.S.)
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Public
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Obama Openness Promise Still Unfulfilled at MSHA

The Mine Safety and Health Administration still denies FOIA requests, including one filed in Oct. 2008 by mine safety attorney Tony Oppegard for some witness statements.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources
Government
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National (U.S.)
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Public
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New Jersey DEP Proposes Gag Order on Science Info

The Newark Star-Ledger reports a move by a top New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection official to prevent public disclosure of scientific information that should be public until political appointees without science credentials and press officers have approved it.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals
Government
Science
Region:
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT)
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Public
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Old-Fashioned Reporting Turns Good Stories to Gold

By MIKE DUNNE

Two members of the Society of Environmental Journalists honored recently for their investigative reporting efforts say that digging through records and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting helped them make good stories great.

Ken Ward Jr. of The Charleston Gazette was the winner of the Scripps Howard Edward Meeman Award for environmental reporting – the third time he was so honored. His winning work focused on a coal silo permit that should not have been issued and was revoked thanks to his reporting.
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Journalism & Media
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National (U.S.)
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Climate-Change Skeptics In Europe? Mostly Missing In Action

By PAUL D. THACKER
Where are the global warming skeptics in Europe?

If you canvas a wide variety of news (what journalist doesn't?) and read some newspapers in Europe, you'll notice something about their coverage of global warming: no skeptics. That's right. The media coverage of high-profile global warming skeptics is pretty much an American phenomenon, according to some noted journalists who cover the issue outside the United States.
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change
Region:
International
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Public
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The Beat: Leaking Gas Tanks And Chemical Pollution Are Common Focus

Ever wonder what lies beneath your feet – what's down there in the ground on which we walk? The Toledo Blade's Tom Henry has an editor who asked that question and the result was an interesting look at what the government is doing – or not doing – to clean up gasoline spills from leaky underground tanks.

Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals
Pollution
Region:
National (U.S.)
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Public
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