"Green Group Launches Smog Text Alert System"
"The Sierra Club launched a system Tuesday to send text message alerts when smog pollution is at a high level in certain areas."
Source: The Hill, 05/07/2015
Journalism & Media
Despite FOIA, EPA Press Policy Remains a Puzzle Palace
In response to the WatchDog's request for the U.S. EPA's press policy, EPA seems to be saying that it doesn't have one. Or that paradoxically EPA staff can talk to reporters but are forbidden to talk to reporters. Or that EPA does not respond to requests for information. Even though the WatchDog finally got a partial response to its June 10, 2014, FOIA request for EPA policies on news media access to EPA employees on April 29, 2015, nothing was revealed. Puzzled? So are we.
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Old-School Reporting in a New-Style Package
"Inside Story" editor Beth Daley speaks with J. Carl Ganter, director of Circle of Blue, a Michigan-based team of journalists and researchers that reports on the global intersection of water, food and energy. Photo: Punjabi farmers who use free water and energy are causing food waste and power shortages in India. Credit: © J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue.
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Workers No Safer 2 Years After West, Texas, Blast: Report
"Do your first responders have the information they need in an emergency?"
Source: In These Times, 04/22/2015
"A Primer on Earth Day Coverage That Doesn’t Suck"
"When The New York Times took note of the first Earth Day in 1970, it made the Times’ front page in an above-the-fold feature photo and a six-column headline pronouncing that 'Millions Join Earth Day Observances Across the Nation.'"
Source: CJR, 04/22/2015
"Mountain Lion P-22, Paparazzi Victim"
The news media became part of the story when a mountain lion took refuge under a Los Angeles-area house.
Source: Slate, 04/15/2015
"What's Behind ALEC's Denial That It Denies Climate Change?"
"Critics say the organization is doing one thing while now saying another, to stop the exit of high-profile members."
Source: InsideClimate News, 04/15/2015
"Has Environmental Journalism Failed?"
A recent Gallup public opinion Poll suggests Americans are less concerned about the environment than they have been in two decades. Does that mean environmental journalism has failed?
Source: Slate, 04/09/2015
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