NOAA Provides Quick Access to Tornado Information

May 11, 2011–Get details on breaking and recent developments, along with big-picture perspective, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's tornado website.

BP Blowout Anniversary: "What's Under Elmer's Island?"

April 20, 2011–Denial of news media access to Gulf beaches has been an issue since the Deepwater Horizon disaster. There's tussling over access to (and interpretation of) scientific information on possible impacts of the spill on the Gulf ecosystem. And The Guardian obtained >30,000 pages of BP in-house memos FOIA'd by Greenpeace, which suggest BP was working hard to influence the results of the research it was paying for.

Toolbox: Data Science Toolkit

April 20, 2011–If you spend a lot of time researching things on the Internet as part of your reporting, the online Data Science Toolkit, which is especially handy with geographic data, and a book by Pete Warden could make parts of your job a lot easier.

Escape From the Ivory Tower: A Guide to Making Your Science Matter

April 15, 2011–

SEJ Promotes Science-Journalism Connection, Alters Funding Policy To Build More Stable Organization

April 15, 2011–

NOAA Science Integrity Policy Still Cloudy on News Media Access

April 6, 2011–The draft policy, released recently by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), barely addresses media access. It leaves this to the purview of the Commerce Department Public Communications Policy — which has not changed since the last year of the Bush administration.

Interior Integrity Policy: Is Science Door Half-Open or Half-Closed?

February 23, 2011–The good news, perhaps, is that Interior felt a need to take some policy action in response to the White House's Dec. 17, 2010, memo on science integrity. The bad news? The Interior policy seems to rehash a 2010 decree that scientists criticized, to punish the innocent, and to reward the uninvolved.

Jackson Memo Leaves EPA Response on Openness in Doubt

January 26, 2011–Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility says the Dec. 21 memo implies that existing EPA openness policy meets White House criteria. Meanwhile, the Office of Management and Budget may again be tampering with agency science for political purposes — accused by Arizona congressman Raúl Grijalva (pictured) of censoring FOIA'd documents relating to the mid-summer estimate of Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

AAAS Meeting: Source for Cutting-Edge Enviro News

January 19, 2011–Topics at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Feb. 17-21, 2011 in Washington, D.C., include climate change, energy, health, oceans, national security, nanotechnology, GMOs, religion, space weather and many more.

Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry

January 15, 2011–