"The Book Big Tobacco Doesn't Want You to Read"
"With "Golden Holocaust," historian Robert Proctor deconstructs an industry that still kills more than 400,000 Americans a year."
Source: Mother Jones, 05/21/2012
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Heartland Facing Uncertain Future as Staff Depart and Cash Dries Up
"Free-market thinktank's conference opens in Chicago with president admitting defections are hurting group's finances."
Source: Guardian, 05/21/2012
"Bat Advocate: 'The Public Needs To Know' About White-Nose Syndrome"
"HELENA, Mont. -- A wildlife advocacy group is suing the U.S. Forest Service to seek the release of documents about how the agency plans to keep a disease that already has killed millions of bats in the U.S. and Canada from spreading to the Northern Rocky Mountains."
Source: AP, 05/21/2012
"Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Fracking 'Gag Rule'"
"A new law in Pennsylvania has doctors nervous."
Source: NPR, 05/18/2012
"Billboard Wars, Chapter 2 (or Is It 3?)"
"Chicago commuters have all the fun. Two weeks ago, there was the Heartland Institute’s Unabomber billboard likening a belief in climate change to psychopathy. This week, those stuck in traffic missed out on one larger-than-life retort to the Heartland campaign but will get to view another."
Source: Green (NYT), 05/18/2012
SEJ Member Spotlight: Wendee Holtcamp
Houston-based freelance writer and photographer Wendee Holtcamp has covered conservation, adventure travel, environmental issues and science for magazines and websites since 1997. She offers an online writing class, teaching aspiring and established writers everything from improving one's writing through observation journaling to crafting killer queries to the business end of building a successful and lucrative freelance career. Next class starts June 2.
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TOOLBOX: Data Journalism Handbook Released
Environmental reporters with ambitions to do investigative projects using databases will find an enormously rich collection of ideas, tips, examples, and tools in the new book released by the Open Knowledge Foundation and the European Journalism Centre.
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"Advocacy: For Heartland Board, Failed Climate Attack Was a Surprise"
"The Heartland Institute's board of directors was not consulted before the group launched an explosive billboard campaign last week, resulting in the resignation of one director and dismaying others, sources said."
Source: ClimateWire, 05/14/2012
SEJ Member Spotlight: William Souder
Freelance writer William Souder has reported on a wide variety of environmental subjects and is the author of three books, including the forthcoming On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, marking the 50th anniversary of Carson's Silent Spring — and, by extension, a half century of environmentalism.
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