Publication Items

Press Releases Could Get Security Stamp From White House [1]

Here's an embargo that a federal employee could face charges for breaking.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Press Releases Could Get Security Stamp From White House [1]
House Passes Bill To Open Up Federal Advisory Committees [6]

The House passed a bill that would do more to ensure open records and meetings of federal advisory committees.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [7]
Government [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about House Passes Bill To Open Up Federal Advisory Committees [6]
Justice Settles Hatfill Case, Locy Jail Threat Still Pends [8]

With the Hatfil anthrax case settled, why is a court still threatening reporter Toni Locy with jail and fines for refusing to reveal the identity of confidential sources?
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Justice Settles Hatfill Case, Locy Jail Threat Still Pends [8]
Corps Withholds Dam Inventory Data [9]

The Army Corps of Engineers has stopped giving the public access to a database that shows how well federal agencies are doing at dam safety.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [10]
Government [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Corps Withholds Dam Inventory Data [9]
Study: FOIA Reforms Haven't Brought Better Performance -- Yet [11]

Despite a Bush Executive Order ostensibly aimed at improving agency FOIA performance, most agencies have little to show two years later.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Study: FOIA Reforms Haven't Brought Better Performance -- Yet [11]
National Academies Study Calls for Restoration of Climate Sensors [12]

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?
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [13]
Science [14]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about National Academies Study Calls for Restoration of Climate Sensors [12]
Center For Public Integrity Gets SPJ Prize For Superfund Probe [15]

The Center for Public Integrity gets an award most journalists would envy -- for its Superfund expose.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Waste [16]
Government [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Center For Public Integrity Gets SPJ Prize For Superfund Probe [15]
TOOLBOX: Environmental Databases Rich With Reporting Tools -- Despite Limits [17]

There are lots of good databases out there to help environmental reporters. Here are a few more you may not know.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about TOOLBOX: Environmental Databases Rich With Reporting Tools -- Despite Limits [17]
White-House-Suppressed Climate 'Endangerment Finding' Released [18]

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.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [13]
Environmental Politics [19]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about White-House-Suppressed Climate 'Endangerment Finding' Released [18]
Cheney's Office Censored Warming Testimony [20]

Vice President Cheney's office blacked out scientific testimony to Congress on the public health consequences of climate change
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [19]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Cheney's Office Censored Warming Testimony [20]

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