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Chemicals, the Press & the Public: A Journalists' Guide to Reporting on Chemicals in the Community

This updated version of discusses the Risk Management Program. The 2000 edition includes tales from the trenches (reporters' war stories); gives useful tips on using your computer as a reporting tool, offers story ideas using RMP data, talks about how reportes can identify community hazards, discusses data limitations, and includes lists of questions you can ask state and local officials and industry representatives.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Glossary
References

Reprinted with permission. Published by the National Safety Council's Environmental Health Center, June 2000, ISBN 0-87912-177-7.

This guidebook is available below in a portable document file (pdf) format. You can view the document with Adobe Acrobat Reader (available as free software).