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EPA Gag Order Brings Call For Johnson Resignation (Part 2) [1]

Some of "The Rules" laid down by the EPA press office, as experienced by SEJ members, include the following:

Bill Would End Sneaky FOIA Exemptions by Congress [2]

A Senate bill would require members of Congress who add FOIA exemptions to legislation to flag them.

Univ. of California Begins Withholding Details on Animal Research [3]

The University of California "has begun withholding public records that detail how animal research is done.

McClellan Misled on Climate Science Censorship: Watchdog [4]

Need another reason not to go through the "press office?" Try reading the transcript from the White House briefing of June 8, 2005.

Journalist Sues AG Department Over Feedlot 'Phone Book' Secrecy [5]

A freelance journalist is challenging in court the US Department of Agriculture's efforts to keep secret its data on who owns the feedlots Americans can see and smell, but whose pollution the food industry does not want USDA to regulate.

House Probes OMB Suppression of Chemical Risk Assessments [6]

The House Science Committee is investigating charges that a White House political arm with no scientific expertise is suppressing EPA information about the toxic risks of commercial products.

TOOLBOX: Scanning Online For Nuclear, Chemical, Wildlife, and Other Incidents [7]

In the old days, the newsroom at most local dailies had a police scanner squawking like a nervous parrot in the background, to get the jump in case something big happened. To get environmental news today, you need other tools.

White House Issues Policy Keeping Much Unclassified Info Secret [8]

Inspection reports on badly maintained dams - or information on what homes would be swept away if they failed?

SCIENTIST FINALLY GIVES ATRAZINE TESTIMONY HE WAS FIRED OVER [9]

Paul Wotzka, a hydrologist with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, who was fired shortly after he asked permission to testify before the Minnesota legislature on Atrazine pollution of water finally had his say.

JUDGE DENIES MEDIA ACCESS TO MSHA PROBE OF CRANDALL CANYON [10]

Federal district judge Dee Benson ruled Oct. 9, 2007, that a group of news media companies could not have access to an investigation by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) into the Crandall Canyon mine collapse in Utah Aug. 6, which killed six miners and three workers trying to rescue them.

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