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 "coal" ...
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Is your driveway covered with toxic waste?
Find out if your state is using toxic chemicals on parking lots and drive ways by utilizing the websites McClure provides.
Tags: coal-tar; banned chemicals; consumer safety
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Using CAR to Cover Mine Safety
This tipsheet provides guidance on how to cover mines, noting that "there are more than 2,000 coal mines nationwide, but more than 12,500 metal/nonmetal mines." The tipsheet gives sources for starting out, including the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration Web site.
Tags: mines; safety; coal mines; metal mines; Mine Safety and Health Administration
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Worker Safety and C.A.R
This tipsheet is a good resource for reporters covering a mining accident for the first time. The author suggests places to start the investigation, like the Mine Safety and Health Administration's website. Johnson also offers some tips to avoid common mistakes when covering mines.
Tags: mining; OSHA; coal; MSHA; Department of Labor
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Using CAR to report on Mine Safety
This tipsheet discusses how to use CAR to report on mining accidents. For instance, Ward lists various sources for safety records and then suggests how to analyze them. He also includes information about mine regulations and mining terminology.
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Energy and the Environment - Mining for Coal Stories
Some tips on investigating coal, with emphasis in environmental impact, combined with a list of useful website for gathering energy related information.
Tags: coal; environment; energy
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Mining for Coal
In many situations it is crunch time to get a story out. Sometimes people mine data for coal, simple quick stories the fill the newshole, keep up byline count and make someone a hero out of the author of a story. This tipsheet includes simple ways to mine for data and provides specific places to find what you are looking for.
Tags: CAR
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Tipsheet No: 219
Series of documents from the Big Mountain Support Group detail their attempts to get the EPA to enforce a presidential directive concerning pollution on reservations; residents on reservations in the Black Mesa area (Arizona) have been fighting some of the worst pollution in the country with little success; also at issue are land use disputes wherein coal companies and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are apparently attempting to remove Navajo indians from their land or make them sign leases; documents include descriptions of the poisoning of indians, letters written to and received from the EPA, a brief history of environmental exploitation on the reservation, news stories documenting the continued struggle and a letter of requests sent to a mining corporation which operates in the area.