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EPA Nominee McCarthy Faces Senate Grilling [1]

"COMING THURSDAY: Probably the most rough-and-tumble of the nomination hearings for members of President Obama’s second-term green team.

Gina McCarthy, Obama’s choice to run the Environmental Protection Agency, will appear before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

The Senate committee includes three of Capitol Hill’s most outspoken critics of the EPA: the panel’s ranking Republican, Sen. David Vitter (La.), and Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)."

Source: Hill/E2 Wire [2], 04/11/2013

CREW Wins Big for All FOIA Requesters [3]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, saying that agencies had 20 days to respond to FOIA requests, stating "what documents would or wouldn’t be handed over and why," according to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

White House OMB Secretly Weakened Food Safety Rule [4]

It may come as little surprise that an unknown number of Americans could die as a result of White House weakening of food safety rules mandated by Congress. The Office of Management and Budget has been secretly weakening environmental health and safety at industry request for years. The surprise is that we found out.

Will McCarthy Face Questions on EPA Press, Openness Practices? [5]

President Obama's nominee for EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy, faces a confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee Thursday, April 11, 2013. SEJ has urged committee members to ask McCarthy about her commitment to open government and whether she will fix EPA's "badly broken" news media policies.

Exxon "Unified Command" Locks Down Ark. Spill Site; Threatens Reporter [6]

The March 29, 2013, spill from ExxonMobil's Pegasus Pipeline near Mayflower, Arkansas is a big deal for several reasons. But the most important thing about the Mayflower spill may be that ExxonMobil and the federal agencies involved seem to be trying to keep news media from getting close enough to see what is going on. Read SEJ's letter protesting the media treatment, and EPA's response.

2013 SEJ Annual Conference Crowdfunding Campaign for Conference Fellowships [7]

SEJ's 30-day "WeDidIt" crowdfunding campaign to send journalists to its annual environmental journalism conference, taking place October 2-6, 2013 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, ended on June 7th. Thank you to our generous contibutors!!

"Washington Area Braces for Cicadas’ Return" [8]

"They’re back. Seventeen years after a major swarm of bug-eyed cicadas staged one of nature’s weirdest — and loudest — mating rituals, their offspring are preparing to rise in Washington’s suburbs and the Mid-Atlantic."

Source: Wash Post [9], 04/10/2013

Enviros Urge 10 Top Retailers To Pull Potentially Toxic Products [10]

"Health and environmental groups will launch a national campaign Thursday to prod 10 major retailers -- including Walmart, Target and Costco -- to clear store shelves of products containing hazardous chemicals."

Source: USA TODAY [11], 04/10/2013

"New Teaching Standards Delve More Deeply Into Climate Change" [12]

"Under proposed new national science standards, students would learn concepts more thoroughly, including how human activity is driving global warming."

Source: LA Times [13], 04/10/2013

"Did Keystone XL Contractor Hide Its Conflict of Interest?" [14]

"The environmental consulting firm hired to evaluate the impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline should have been barred from working on the project, according to a group of environmentalists. On Monday, representatives from 13 environmental organizations asked State Department's Inspector General to investigate whether the firm's previous relationships with TransCanada should have qualified as a conflict of interest."

Source: Mother Jones [15], 04/10/2013

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