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The Case Against Fluoride Mounts

By BETTE HILEMAN

Until very recently, the mere mention that fluoridated water might cause adverse health effects was likely to be met with deep skepticism, even derision. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention still calls water fluoridation the greatest health triumph of the past 50 years.

But those attitudes are beginning to change.
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Water & Oceans
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National (U.S.)
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Bird Flu: The Coming Pandemic Or Much Less?

Highly Pathogenic A (H5N1) Avian Influenza (AI) is killing birds and occasionally infecting and killing humans. This story continues to develop as both breaking news and a continuing story involving commercial poultry industry, ethnic differences, rural life, Third World poverty, and global and domestic preparedness for a disease pandemic.

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Food
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National (U.S.)
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Cumulative Ocean Impacts Mapped Off U.S. and Mexican Shores

Researchers from California and Hawaii have analyzed 25 factors and developed a map that reflects the relative cumulative magnitude of their effects on the waters extending for about 250-350 miles off the shores of Washington, Oregon, California, and the Baja Peninsula.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change
Fish & Fisheries
Pollution
Water & Oceans
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International
National (U.S.)
Northwest (OR WA)
California
Mexico
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Feds Boost Lead-Reduction Effort in Houses

About $100 million in funding is earmarked for 53 projects in 20 states and the District of Columbia by the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet
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Chemicals
Laws & Regulations
Government
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National (U.S.)
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Billions at Stake with Climate Change Legislation

The climate bill in Congress will impact hundreds of companies – some big in your area. Many are spending big bucks on lobbying. Here's how to follow the money.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet
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Climate Change
Economy & Business
Laws & Regulations
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National (U.S.)
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Media Hype's Impacts On Disaster Victims And Endangered Species

By JAN KNIGHT

After a disaster, news coverage can amplify risk, create new health syndromes, study shows.

Disasters and their aftermaths can have repercussions that reach beyond the days or weeks that follow, and news reports can strongly impact public reaction to related risks, even contributing to increased reports of health-related problems that may not be linked to the disaster, a recent study shows.
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Disasters
Journalism & Media
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National (U.S.)
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16th Annual Conference: Pre-Conference Workshops For New And Seasoned Journalists

SEJ's 16th Annual Conference, to be held in Burlington, Vt., Oct. 25-29, promises the same sort of story-producing tours, great speakers and informative panels that SEJ conference goers have come to expect.
But this year some pre-conference workshops – one a boot camp for journalists and the other at Vermont Law School – will offer new opportunities to journalists.
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Journalism & Media
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Hopeful Signs For SEJ's FOI Efforts

By JOSEPH A. DAVIS

That old feeling of helplessness is gone. The news media and public no longer see erosion of the First Amendment, the Freedom of Information Act and disclosure requirements in many environmental laws as inevitable ... and worse, unimportant.

Or so a recent vote in Congress signaled.
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Platte River At The Crossroads: SEJ Regional Focuses On Spectacular Wildlife Migration

There we were, 21 environmental reporters, freelancers, students and professors, all huddled and shivering in an unheated blind on the Platte River.

We were waiting in the breezy, 20-degree cold for thousands of lesser sandhill cranes to return from feeding in the corn fields and roost for the night on protective sandbars. Each spring, the cranes leave their southwest wintering spots and stop in central Nebraska to rest and eat before heading out to their Arctic nesting grounds.
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans
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National (U.S.)
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No Matter The Name, The Only Agenda Is Pure Journalism

By PERRY BEEMAN

Some years ago, a board member or two suggested SEJ change its name.

Why? Because the phrase "environmental journalists" seemed to suggest "environmentalist journalists" to some, especially those who suspect the group has some sort of environmental agenda akin to the Sierra Club's.
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Journalism & Media
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National (U.S.)
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Publication Items

The Case Against Fluoride Mounts

Bird Flu: The Coming Pandemic Or Much Less?

Cumulative Ocean Impacts Mapped Off U.S. and Mexican Shores

Feds Boost Lead-Reduction Effort in Houses

Billions at Stake with Climate Change Legislation

Media Hype's Impacts On Disaster Victims And Endangered Species

16th Annual Conference: Pre-Conference Workshops For New And Seasoned Journalists

Hopeful Signs For SEJ's FOI Efforts

Platte River At The Crossroads: SEJ Regional Focuses On Spectacular Wildlife Migration

No Matter The Name, The Only Agenda Is Pure Journalism

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