If You Want to be an Energy Policy Geek, E&E is the Website for You:

Do you want to be up to date on all of the environmental issues that you spend so much time worrying about?  Well, you could spend most of your waking hours roaming around the materials provided, day in and day out, by Environment and Energy Publishing  (E&E).  The following overview of their Suite of Online Services is taken directly from their website, which you can access at: http://www.eenews.net/  

E&E's latest publication, ClimateWire, is designed to bring readers unmatched coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society. Climate issues have become so pervasive, and our clients' interest in climate change has become so intense, that developing ClimateWire became an inevitable means to expand and enhance E&E's already top-tier coverage of this critical issue area.  

Designed for policy players who need to know what’s happening to their issues on Capitol Hill. From federal agency appropriations to comprehensive energy legislation, E&E Daily is the place insiders go to track their environmental and energy issues in Congress.  

Cutting-edge webcast program featuring in-depth interviews and analysis with compelling energy and environmental policy leaders. OnPoint is filmed and broadcast daily from E&E’s state-of-the-art studios on Capitol Hill. E&ETV’s broadcast quality sets the standard for Web-based video.  

The one-stop source for those who need to stay on top of all of today’s major environmental and energy action. With an average of more than 20 stories a day, Greenwire covers the complete spectrum, from electricity industry restructuring to Clean Air Act litigation to public lands management.  

A late afternoon roundup providing coverage of all the breaking and developing policy news from Capitol Hill, around the country and around the world. A must-read for the key players who need to be ahead of the next day’s headlines. 

For more than 20 years, Land Letter has been the publication professionals have turned to for objective, accurate coverage of natural resource policy issues. From lawsuits over national forest management, to water resource allocation in the West, Land Letter is the source all sides turn to for clear, timely, objective information. No other publication can match Land Letter's in-depth reporting on such a wide range of natural resource development and conservation issues.   

If (like me) you find yourself wondering about the integrity and quality of an initiative as expansive as this, you might be encouraged by the last paragraph of this 2008 Columbia Journalism Review article by Curtis Brainard.  He reports that  E&E's ventures serve not only policy geeks, but also the rest of us.  (The entire article is available at:

http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/ee_news_launches_climatewire.php  )  

The Observatory — April 01, 2008 09:59 AM
E&E News Launches ClimateWire
New pub aims to dig deep into “sprawling” topic
By Curtis Brainard
Though E&E’s editors have considered it, Braun (one of E&E's founders) said, “Our goal isn’t to write for a mass-market audience. We’re covering a lot of incremental stuff, it’s a lot of minutiae; it’s stuff that’s very important for people who are lobbying these issues and following these issues-the regulators and the legislators who are dealing with it; it’s really not very important or very interesting to the man on the street-some of the stuff we do is, but not the bulk of it.” Braun’s business model notwithstanding, ClimateWire and the rest of the E&E suite are an excellent source of environmental news that many general readers may find interesting, especially as struggling outlets in the mainstream media lose the tools to dig deeper into green issues.