WV Claims Tax Breaks for Coal-To-Liquid Plant Should Be Secret From Taxpayers

August 13, 2008–Should a deal for $200 million in tax breaks for a West Virginia coal-to-liquids plant be kept a secret from taxpayers and voters?

EPA Gag Order Brings Call For Johnson Resignation (Part 1)

July 30, 2008–Revelation of a document instructing EPA staff not to talk to reporters brings calls for the resignation of Administrator Steve Johnson.

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.