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Green Climate Fund Disclosure Policy Raises Issues [1]

The multibillion-dollar Green Climate Fund, established after the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks to help developing countries adapt, offers many kinds of news to environmental reporters. So controversies around the fund's information disclosure policies are important.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Public [3]
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Interior Dept. Stonewalls Federal FOIA Ombud [4]

The U.S. Department of the Interior is not winning many awards for openness. A House subcommittee recently took up the complaint that Interior's Office of the Solicitor would not even honor the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ombudsman's office with a response to repeated letters.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [5]
Government [6]
Natural Resources [7]
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Public [3]
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FOIA Turns 50 July 4; Can It Be Fixed? [8]

Open government groups have started a 50-day countdown to the law's 50th anniversary. It remains to be seen whether Congress can send President Obama a fix-FOIA bill by that date. Image: © Clipart.com. [9]

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Laws & Regulations [10]
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Public [3]
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Public Land Photo-Fee Provisions Buried in Pending Energy Legislation [11]

The Senate-passed bill contains an explicit exemption from permits and fees for newsgathering. A House energy bill, now going to conference to be reconciled with the Senate bill, contains no newsgathering exemption. But that's not the end of the story. Image courtesy of NPS.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [5]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [10]
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Public [3]
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Leaked Again: Secret CRS Reports for Environment Beat [13]

Here are the latest leaked explainers, written by the Congressional Research Service, that may be of use to environmental journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [14]
Disasters [15]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Health [17]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Transportation [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
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Public [3]
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House Science Panel Probes EPA Unpublishing of Glyphosate Report [20]

U.S. EPA on April 29, 2016, posted on its website the 2015 "final" report by its Cancer Assessment Review Committee on the widely used herbicide glyphosate, sold commercially by Monsanto as Roundup. But on May 2, the report vanished from the EPA site.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Politics [5]
Health [17]
Science [22]
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Public [3]
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Farm News Fires Cartoonist for Lampooning Ag Firm CEOs' Pay [23]

The Iowa-based publication Farm News has fired an editorial cartoonist who had contributed to the publication for 21 years. His crime: pointing out that the CEOs of Monsanto, Dupont Pioneer and John Deere made far more than average farmers.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Agriculture [24]
Economy & Business [25]
Food [26]
Journalism & Media [12]
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Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [27]
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Public [3]
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Commodity Groups Slip FOIA Exemption into House Appropriations Bill [28]

The language, in the report accompanying the bill, declares that employees of the marketing boards are "not government employees," and "urges the USDA to recognize" that such boards are exempt from FOIA. Image: © Clipart.com. [29]

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"Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge" [30]

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BookShelf [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [14]
Economy & Business [25]
Environmental Politics [5]
Natural Resources [7]
People & Population [33]
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Antarctica & Arctic [34]
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Public [3]
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"Beyond Fair Trade: How One Small Coffee Company Helped Transform a Hillside Village In Thailand" [35]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [24]
Economy & Business [25]
Region:
Asia [36]
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Public [3]
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