Bookshelf: Covering the Environment: How Journalists Work the Green Beat
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Best Environmental Journalism of 2007-2008 Honored
Thirty-three entries in 11 categories — including the new Rachel Carson Environment Book Award — had been designated as finalists in the SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment, the world's largest and most comprehensive awards for journalism on environmental topics.
Research Roundup: E-beat Questions: Favoring Sources? What about TV Envirocasts?
Studies show environmental news crosses beats, with the beat influencing the coverage, and weathercasters play a key but overlooked role in explaining science.
Reporter's Toolbox: Might the Suburbs in your Area Become the Next Slums?
Are Peak Oil, the subprime mortgage mess and generational shifts ending Americans' love affair with the suburbs? That's what some high-profile urban planning types are postulating.
Freelance Life: Making the Move from a Newspaper to “Writing for Hire”
Freelance reporter Abby Luby recounts her journey and lessons learned so far.
EPA Teases Congress on Air Waiver Information: Interrogation Next
EPA still has not complied with requests from two Congressional investigating committees for documents on its decision to deny California and some 16 other states waivers allowing them to regulate tailpipe greenhouse emissions.
The Pollution in Your Drinking Well May Be Syngenta's "Trade Secret"
EPA says it can tell you how much of the herbicide atrazine may be in your drinking water - but you will have to swear not to tell anyone.
NYC May Outlaw Environmental Monitoring By Citizens
The New York City Council is considering a bill that would make it illegal for a citizen to test - without police permission - the environment for toxic or pathogenic conditions.
The Beat: The Roots of Conservatives' Environmental View
When the journalist and author William F. Buckley Jr. died last February, much was written and said about his seminal role in the growth of the modern conservative movement after he founded National Review magazine in 1955. Read as The Beat checks in on a few of the most influential journalists and publications identified with the conservative and libertarian regions of the political spectrum to offer a sampling of their recent treatment of environmental matters.
Congress Orders EPA to Reopen Libraries: EPA Balks
Omnibus 2008 Appropriations Bill (PL 110-161) signed by President Bush Dec. 26, 2007, ordered him to reopen EPA libraries shuttered by his administration and earmarked some $3 million to restore them.
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