The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "Environmental Protection Agency" ...
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Water and Politics: Tips for Covering the Local Water Utility
This tipsheet details the sort of information you should be keeping tabs on when covering the local water utility. It also offer story ideas for the beat, while also providing links to useful data online.
Tags: water; utilities; EPA; Environmental Protection Agency; National Water Quality Assessment Program; pollution; waterways
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Mining the web for Data and Stories
This tipsheet lists valuable online resources including searchable data; downloadable data; advanced search strategies; mapping services.
Tags: online resources; data; online data; government data; databases; FedStats; Data.gov; USASPending.gov; BRB Publications; OSHA; MSHA; FARS: Federal Railroad Administration; GIS; mapping; census; Environmental Protection Agency; Federal Aviation Administration;
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Pesticides
This tipsheet details various pesticide databases including where they can be found, how to use them and potential issues with the data. Included are pertinent web resources and tips for covering pesticide related stories
Tags: pesticides; Environmental Protection Agency; EPA; extoxnet; Pesticide Action Network; National Pesticide Information Retrieval System; Pesticide Incident Data System; SENSOR
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Environment
Morrison discusses how to do a meaningful story on the environment - beginning with pitching a story "with a clear question whose answer is newsworthy." He discusses the use of data in doing the story, and how to validate your findings.
Tags: environment; EPA; Environmental Protection Agency; science; expert;
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Understanding EPA
Sullivan discusses how to bring yourself up to speed on the topic of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Sullivan explains how committed efforts to understand the agency pay-off in terms of having a working knowledge of the subject of your investigation.
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Mapping Hazardous Chemical Sites
Grabell's tipsheet outlines resources for mapping hazardous chemical sites. The tipsheet provides lists of where to find applicable data, as well as programs used to map these sites.
Tags: hazardous waste; EPA; Environmental Protection Agency; FOIA; Hazmat; ESRI; ArcGIS; Google Maps; Caspio; risk management; planning and zoning
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Investigating Environmental Regulatory Agencies
Scott Streater provides tips for reporters who are working on environmental investigations. He explains how to find sources, get data and know open record laws. Streater also gives a list of helpful Web sites for reporters who are requesting records.
Tags: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); pollution; FOIA; Freedom of Information; public records
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Uncovering Industrial Waste -- Snooping on Superfund
Nussbaum provides helpful tips for reporters who are covering environmental pollution stories. He explains some Superfund blindspots, provides questions to ask and gives reporters some documents, Web sites and databases to look into.
Tags: environment; Superfund; Ford Motor Co.; industrial waste; dumping; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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"Using data to uncover workplace dangers and abuses"
This tipsheet provides tips on how to find data from agencies, and what to do if agencies won't give you data. It also includes information about analyzing data sets. The tipsheet also includes a list of important data sources, with links to their websites and descriptions of the data they might have. Additionally, this tipsheet has resources from the U.S. Department of Labor and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health websites that includes a list of their available statistics and data sets.
Tags: U.S. Department of Labor; Injuries; Illnesses; Fatalities; record keeping; NIOSH; respirators and personal protective equipment; agency; workers' compensation; Centers for Disease Control; CDC; OSHA; licensing agencies; Health departments; environmental health standards; institutional health standards; public health hazards
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Plunging into Environmental Investigations
Theobald gives tips that he gained from doing "Neighborhood at Risk" at the Indianapolis Star, along with Tammy Weber and Mark Nichols. He provides helpful websites, tells where to obtain data and explains how to find people who can tell your story.