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SEJ, SPJ Say Agency Media Obstacles Hurt Public Confidence in Water, Safety

Journalists had trouble overcoming EPA and CDC press office obstacles and getting access to agency experts and officials during this month's drinking water contamination crisis in Charleston, WV. SEJ and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) have sent a letter of complaint to heads of both agencies and their press offices. We urge them to adopt specific practices to end press office stonewalling and increase transparency, especially in times of crisis.

[UPDATE: Reply of January 29, 2014, from EPA Assoc. Adm. for Ext. Affairs Tom Reynolds]

[UPDATE: Reply of January 22, 2014, from CDC Public Affairs Director Barbara Reynolds]

[UPDATE: "CDC: Pregnant Women Should Have Been Warned About Water Sooner," Charleston Gazette, January 22, 2014, by Ken Ward Jr.]

"Omaha Building Collapse: 2 Killed, at Least 10 Hurt at Feed Plant"

"An explosion and fire flattened part of an animal feed plant in Omaha, Nebraska, on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 10 others, authorities said."

Source: Chicago Tribune, 01/21/2014

"Russia Jails Environmentalist One Month Before Sochi Olympics"

"Russian courts sentence Evgeny Vitishko, a critic of the Sochi Olympics construction developments, to three years."

Source: Aljazeera, 01/21/2014

"Appeals Court Tosses EPA rule for Indian Country"

"A federal appeals court today tossed out a U.S. EPA air pollution rule for some Native American territories."

Source: Greenwire, 01/21/2014

"China Exports Pollution to U.S., Study Finds"

"BEIJING — Filthy emissions from China’s export industries are carried across the Pacific Ocean and contribute to air pollution in the Western United States, according to a paper published Monday by a prominent American science journal."

Source: NY Times, 01/21/2014

More Oil Spilled From Trains in 2013 Than in Previous 4 Decades: Data

"WASHINGTON — More crude oil was spilled in U.S. rail incidents last year than was spilled in the nearly four decades since the federal government began collecting data on such spills, an analysis of the data shows."

Source: McClatchy, 01/21/2014

West Virginia Looks To Tighten Rules After Chemical Spill Tainted Water

"West Virginia's governor on Monday proposed legislation to regulate above-ground storage tanks, a move that comes after a spill of coal-processing chemicals shut off drinking water to about 300,000 people."

Source: Reuters, 01/21/2014

"Texas Company, Alone in U.S., Cashes In on Nuclear Waste"

"ANDREWS, Tex. — Standing at the lip of what might be America’s most valuable hole in the ground, Rodney A. Baltzer cataloged the features that he said would isolate the radioactive waste to be buried here for thousands of years."

Source: NY Times, 01/21/2014

"Begich on Pebble: 'Wrong Mine, Wrong Place, Too Big'"

"U.S. Sen. Mark Begich says he's concluded the proposed Pebble mine cannot be developed without harming the Bristol Bay region's world-famous red salmon runs."

Source: Anchorage Daily News, 01/21/2014

"Use of Water 'Your Decision,' Tomblin Says"

"CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Monday told 300,000 state residents that they should make their own decisions about using water from West Virginia American Water's Elk River plant in the wake of this month's leak of the chemical Crude MCHM."

Source: Charleston Gazette, 01/21/2014

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