"It's official: climate legislation has zero chance of passing before the big summit in Copenhagen this December." That seems to be the inevitable consequence of an announcement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The Office of Government Information Services, created by Congress in 2008 to serve as an overseer of federal FOIA activities and help mediate disputes between information requesters and federal agencies, offers a resource page with useful government and NGO links.
Prior to November 1, 2009, EPA had 13 different lists for Federal Register notices. The information is still available to reporters and the public via other channels.
The U.S. Department of Energy scrambles to delay a report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board about a significant threat of radiation release from Los Alamos National Laboratory, a citizen watchdog group discovered.
The Project on Government Oversight used FOIA to get reports and documents from an NRC Inspector General's investigation of Jeffrey Merrifield.
The Association of Health Care Journalists and other journalism groups have co-signed a letter to the Food and Drug Administration's Transparency Task Force, calling for FDA to "end these harmful practices and restore the free flow of information."
Federal legislation to protect reporters from having to reveal confidential sources may be back on track. A markup in the Senate Judiciary Committee, possibly November 5, 2009, could tell.
"A House subcommittee endorsed Tuesday a bill to ban importing foreign, low-level radioactive waste — which would block an EnergySolutions proposal to import 20,000 tons of it from Italy, process it in Tennessee and dump it in Utah's western desert."
"Tests are turning up dangerous levels of lead in children's jewelry, but the federal government can't compel companies to recall the toxic trinkets, says a new report by Canada's environmental watchdog."
"The Environmental Protection Agency is working to clear contaminated soils from a former recycling business site in Wayland [MI]."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/its-official-no-climate-bill-this-year
[2] http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/11/climate-bill-2010
[3] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/federal-foia-mediator-launches-web-site
[4] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/epa-to-discontinue-federal-register-listserves
[5] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/at-los-alamos-secrecy-is-opposite-safety
[6] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/ig-finds-former-nrc-commissioner-hid-ethics-violations
[7] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/health-care-journalists-seek-end-to-press-office-restrictions-fda
[8] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/senators-j-groups-white-house-agree-shield-law-provisions
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/house-panel-oks-bill-to-ban-importing-foreign-n-waste
[10] http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705341746/House-panel-OKs-bill-to-ban-importing-foreign-N-waste.html
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/canada-powerless-to-recall-toxic-trinkets-audit
[12] http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jmsAuxwp4ND2vB_8cudGJSZaFe_Q
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-works-to-clear-contaminated-soil-from-wayland-site
[14] http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/11/epa_works_to_clear_contaminate.html
[15] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[16] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4658
[17] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4655
[18] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4656
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4657
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4660
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4661
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4662
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4663
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4917