Toxic spills, acid rain, poor air quality-scarcely a day goes by
without a report in the press on an environmental risk issue.
Nowhere is this more prevalent than in New Jersey, a leading
state in the production of chemicals, and the state with the
largest number of Superfund cleanup sites. How accurate and how
extensive is environmental risk reporting in the New Jersey
press, and what can be done to improve the quality of its
coverage of environmental risk? And what can we learn from the
New Jersey experience? "Environmental Risk and the Press "sets
out to answer these questions. The authors explore the strengths
and weaknesses of environmental risk reporting in New Jersey by
evaluating the state's best environmental risk stories. They
find that even the best stories have a number of problems, and
they develop a number of concrete recommendations for reporters
and editors on how to improve their coverage in this area. The
authors also investigate the feasibility of various methods for
getting environmental r