Publication Items

CA PESTICIDE SPRAYING PITS TRADE SECRETS AGAINST RIGHT TO KNOW [1]

California is trying to eradicate the brown apple moth along the state's central coast by aerial spraying of a pheromone-based pesticide intended to interfere with the insect's natural reproductive cycle. Some residents want to know what's being sprayed on them.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Region:
California [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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WHITE HOUSE EDITS OF CLIMATE TESTIMONY CAUSE FLAP [6]

White House edits of testimony delivered Oct. 24 to the Senate Environment Committee by Centers for Disease Control director Julie Gerberding have brought consternation from Democrats and environmentalists and a circling of wagons at the White House.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Interior Dept. FOIA Logs Published Online [9]

The group Governmentattic.org has published on its Website the FOIA request logs for the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, and Minerals Management Service through Oct. 2007.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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GROUP WINS ACCESS TO FOREST SERVICE RECORDS ON OFF-ROAD VEHICLE DAMAGE [10]

The AP reports that the conservation group Wildlands CPR has won a 2-year battle to get U.S. Forest Service records on damage caused by off-road vehicles and unmaintained roads in the West.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Region:
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [11]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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SECRECY ON ANIMAL ID SYSTEM CHALLENGED, WRITTEN INTO FARM BILL [12]

The Senate Agriculture Committee has written an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act for records in the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). The language, which is in the draft version of the Farm Bill and would prevent American meat eaters from knowing about any problems with their meat was introduced by farmers and members of the food industry.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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SEJ, J-Groups Urge Interior To Loosen Limits on Filming [14]

SEJ and 18 other journalism groups urged the Department of the Interior Oct. 19, 2007, to revise a proposed rule that would keep freelancers and documentarians from covering news in National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and other DOI lands.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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HOUSE PANEL TO HOLD HEARING ON PARK PHOTO FEES DEC. 12 [15]

The House Resources Committee will hold a hearing Dec. 12, 2007, to air concerns that proposed Interior Department rules requiring fees and permits for photography and sound recording on public lands could limit freedom of the press.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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A Federal Superfund Site Near You May Hold a Great Story [16]

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Policy [18]
Pollution [19]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Bush OMB Claims Public Health Endangerment As Secret [20]

The White House Office of Management and Budget has denied a FOIA request by the online newsletter Greenwire to release EPA's public health "endangerment finding" on climate change.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [21]
Health [22]
Government [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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SEJ Urges Prompt, Full EPA Release of Ash Spill Testing Data [23]

SEJ urged EPA Region 4 to release promptly and fully any environmental monitoring data it collects related to the December 2008 spill of coal ash from an east Tennessee impoundment.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Journalism & Media [24]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [25]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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