Peer Files FOIA Suit Against Interior

January 16, 2008–The Interior Department is responding to allegations of corruption and political interference with wildlife law enforcement by clamming up.

The Pollution in Your Drinking Well May Be Syngenta's "Trade Secret"

January 16, 2008–EPA says it can tell you how much of the herbicide atrazine may be in your drinking water - but you will have to swear not to tell anyone.

Bush Signs FOIA Bill Into Law

January 2, 2008–President Bush has signed into law a measure aimed at strengthening the Freedom of Information Act.

Conservation Group Sues for Documents on Resigned Interior Official

January 2, 2008–The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), a conservationist group that litigates wildlife-protection issues, has filed suit challenging Interior Department secrecy on a political scandal.

EPA Proposes Feedlot Toxics Release Reporting Exemption

January 2, 2008–EPA has proposed exempting farms from a law protecting the public from toxic air pollutants. Environmental groups have objected.

Senate Passes Farm Bill With Softened Secrecy Language

January 2, 2008–The Senate passed a five-year Farm Bill Dec. 14, 2007, that softened a provision imposing draconian penalties for publication of information from a federal database for tracking food animals.

TOOLBOX: New Resources for Tracking FED Spending Now Out

January 2, 2008–Some new, sharper tools are available for reporters who want to investigate patterns of federal spending or specific cases of interest.

Waxman to Get EPA Climate Waiver Documents

January 2, 2008–Henry Waxman (D-CA), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has vowed to investigate EPA's decision to prohibit states from regulating greenhouse emissions.

NIEHS Follow-Up: Assurances of a Robust, Independent Journal?

December 12, 2007–Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), the embattled flagship journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has a new editor-in-chief - Hugh A. Tilson. But will he have the editorial independence NIEHS leaders have promised him?

EPA HIDES INDUSTRY DATA ON ATRAZINE RISK

December 12, 2007–An EPA database that has not been made public shows alarming levels of the pesticide atrazine are showing up in water bodies around the U.S.