Publication Items

Deadlines for Plans To Reduce Regional Haze Finally Established [1]

On Nov. 9, 2011, EPA signed a consent decree that requires the agency to receive from and approve a State Implementation Plan for DC, VI, and 43 states that don't have a fully approved one. Each state can determine how it wants to reduce haze. In some cases, the plan will rely on actions already taken, such as reductions in emissions from power plants or vehicles.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [3]
Air [4]
Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Justice Dept. Ditches Its Proposal To Lie About Existence of FOIA Records [9]

The regulatory proposal was part of a large package of revised FOIA regulations, which will go forward without it. The Justice Department did not rescind the 1987 Meese memo the proposal was based on; instead it identified ways in which agencies could be unresponsive and uninformative without actually lying.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Policy [11]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Obama Administration Trying To Speed up Transmission Line Approvals [12]

As part of its push to improve the nation's power system, the Obama administration is trying to expedite construction of 7 transmission lines, in various stages of planning and design, spanning 3,100 miles in 12 states.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [6]
Environmental Politics [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [17]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [18]
Northwest (OR WA) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Controversial Pesticide Rule Might Protect Waterways [21]

US EPA, under a court-ordered deadline of Oct. 31, 2011, is to release a final rule establishing a Pesticides General Permit process, which would establish ways to reduce certain pesticide applications on or near waterways for control of mosquitoes, other flying insects, weeds, algae, animals, and forest canopy pests.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [22]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Chemicals [23]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Reporters Committee Offers Digital Journos' Legal Guide [24]

RCFP's free online guide covers many topics: credentials for bloggers; state and federal FOIA rights; libel and SLAPP laws; privacy concerns online; Internet regulation; and more.
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WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [6]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Reporters Committee Offers Digital Journos' Legal Guide [24]
Florida Court Won't Order OSHA To Withhold Images of Orca-Trainer Death [25]

Judge Gregory Presnell ruled that the federal Freedom of Information Act did not allow an injunction before the agency itself had made its decision on whether to release the records.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [6]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [26]
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Public [8]
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Proposed Rule To Target Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Mileage [27]

By Sept. 28, 2011, EPA and the US Dept. of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say they will jointly release proposed standards designed to significantly increase fuel mileage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars, light trucks, and medium-duty passenger vehicles in model years 2017-2025.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [28]
Air [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Transportation [29]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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EPA To Issue Long Overdue Standards for Oil & Gas Facilities [30]

Two and a half years after being sued, EPA is under a twice-extended court deadline to release by July 28, 2011, proposed standards which will address air toxics from oil production facilities and natural gas production, processing, transmission, and storage facilities.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [6]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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EPA May Finally Release Final Ozone Standards [31]

The standards were initially scheduled to be released in August 2010, then October 2010, after EPA determined that the ones approved during the George W. Bush administration weren't grounded in science, didn't protect public health with an adequate margin of safety, and didn't protect the environment.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [7]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Health [5]
Environmental Health [3]
Air [4]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Defiant Murdoch E-Tab To Judge: Nuts To Pulling BP Deposition [32]

U.S. Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan of the Eastern District of Louisiana ordered iPad-only publication The Daily to remove the deposition, by former BP CEO Tony Hayward in the Gulf oil spill lawsuit, because it had not been published with her permission.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [6]
Journalism & Media [33]
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Public [8]
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