"Voters at Exxon Mobil Corp's annual meeting on Wednesday approved a measure to let minority shareholders nominate outsiders for seats on the board, meaning a climate activist could eventually become a director at the world's largest publicly traded oil company."
Jim Holzer, head of the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), a post often called the FOIA Ombudsman, has decided to step down after less than a year on the job. Some Freedom of Information Act advocates are seeing this as a discouraging sign.
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.
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.
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. [7]
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.
"Just as Rumpelstiltskin spun gold from straw, scores of new companies are trying to spin profits out of food waste."
"With nearly $500 billion invested, a new analysis recommends insurance companies take a harder look at the consequences of climate change and a lower-carbon future".
"New research links exposure to these toxic chemicals to thyroid problems, especially in post-menopausal women".
"The Florida Everglades is a swampy wilderness the size of Delaware. .. But beneath the surface a different story is unfolding. Because of climate change and sea level rise, the ocean is starting to seep into the swampland. If the invasion grows worse, it could drastically change the Everglades, and a way of life for millions of residents in South Florida."
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[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-climatechange-idUSKCN0YG2I6
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[5] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/interior-dept-stonewalls-federal-foia-ombud
[6] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/foia-turns-50-july-4-can-it-be-fixed
[7] http://www.clipart.com/en/close-up?o=4115362
[8] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/public-land-photo-fee-provisions-buried-pending-energy-legislation
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-crop-companies-reaping-profits-wasted-food
[10] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/business/energy-environment/new-crop-of-companies-reaping-profits-from-wasted-food.html?ref=energy-environment
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fossil-fuel-investments-growing-riskier-insurers-report-warns
[12] http://insideclimatenews.org/news/24052016/insurers-climate-change-risks-global-warming-fossil-fuel-investments-oil-gas-coal-report-warns
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/flame-retardant-exposure-poses-significant-health-risk-women
[14] http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/flame_retardant_exposure_poses_a_significant_health_risk_to_women/
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/rising-seas-push-too-much-salt-florida-everglades
[16] http://www.npr.org/2016/05/25/477014085/rising-seas-push-too-much-salt-into-the-florida-everglades
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