EPA Gag Order Brings Call For Johnson Resignation (Part 2)

July 30, 2008–Some of "The Rules" laid down by the EPA press office, as experienced by SEJ members, include the following:

Reprint: A Reporter's Bill Of Rights

July 30, 2008–Here's the press policy a lot of journalists would like to see at all agencies.

Center For Public Integrity Gets SPJ Prize For Superfund Probe

July 17, 2008–The Center for Public Integrity gets an award most journalists would envy -- for its Superfund expose.

Cheney's Office Censored Warming Testimony

July 17, 2008–Vice President Cheney's office blacked out scientific testimony to Congress on the public health consequences of climate change

National Academies Study Calls for Restoration of Climate Sensors

July 17, 2008–How can you tell whether global warming is happening if the White House shuts down the satellites needed to sense it by cutting their budgets?

Study: FOIA Reforms Haven't Brought Better Performance -- Yet

July 17, 2008–Despite a Bush Executive Order ostensibly aimed at improving agency FOIA performance, most agencies have little to show two years later.

TOOLBOX: Environmental Databases Rich With Reporting Tools -- Despite Limits

July 17, 2008–There are lots of good databases out there to help environmental reporters. Here are a few more you may not know.

White-House-Suppressed Climate 'Endangerment Finding' Released

July 17, 2008–How did the White House suppress an EPA finding that human-induced greenhouse warming was a threat to human health (and thus subject to regulation)? By refusing to read it. But you can read it here.

Bill Would End Sneaky FOIA Exemptions by Congress

July 3, 2008–A Senate bill would require members of Congress who add FOIA exemptions to legislation to flag them.

Corps Withholds Dam Inventory Data

July 3, 2008–The Army Corps of Engineers has stopped giving the public access to a database that shows how well federal agencies are doing at dam safety.