Harlem Heat Project
SEJ members Adam Glenn and Julia Kumari Drapkin partner with New York public radio flagship WNYC on a new participatory sensor reporting project exploring urban heat islands and health impacts in Harlem.
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Leaked: New Secret CRS Explainers for the Environment-Energy Beat
Here are some recent Congressional Research Service reports relevant to the environment and energy beat, thanks to the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project.
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Federal Agencies Pose Information Roadblocks to Health Journalists
Environmental journalists are not alone in their frustrations with the federal officials who are supposed to help journalists get information about what government is doing. Now the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) has surveyed its members and found the federal government often blocks access to information that health care journalists seek.
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Leaked Again: Secret CRS Reports for Environment Beat
Here are the latest leaked explainers, written by the Congressional Research Service, that may be of use to environmental journalists.
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House Science Panel Probes EPA Unpublishing of Glyphosate Report
U.S. EPA on April 29, 2016, posted on its website the 2015 "final" report by its Cancer Assessment Review Committee on the widely used herbicide glyphosate, sold commercially by Monsanto as Roundup. But on May 2, the report vanished from the EPA site.
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Confirmation That Zika Causes Microcephaly Shifts Debate To Prevention
"After several weeks of study and debate, U.S. health officials concluded that infection with the Zika virus during pregnancy causes the birth defect microcephaly, a finding that experts hope will refocus attention on efforts to stop infections and prompt U.S. lawmakers to fund emergency prevention efforts."
Source: Reuters, 04/14/2016
Robert De Niro Pulls Anti-Vaccine Documentary From Tribeca Film Fest
"Facing a storm of criticism over its plan to show a documentary about the widely debunked link between vaccines and autism, the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday pulled the film from its schedule next month."
Source: NY Times, 03/28/2016
"Congress Goes Home for Easter Break Without Paying for Zika Fight"
"Congress took off from Washington Wednesday afternoon without voting to appropriate any of the $1.9 billion the Obama administration has asked for to fight Zika and leaving top health officials feeling a little desperate."
Source: NBC News, 03/25/2016
"Lessons From Rubella Suggest Zika's Impact Could Linger"
"As scientists struggle to understand the threat posed by Zika virus, there's another viral infection that's a known danger in pregnancy and that harms 100,000 babies a year, even though it has been preventable with a vaccine since 1969. The disease is rubella, or German measles."
Source: NPR, 03/23/2016
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