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2007 Archives: SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues [1]

December 12, 2007
SEJ president testifies at Interior photo-fee hearing

The Society of Environmental Journalists told the House Natural Resources Committee Dec. 12 that the Interior Department could unduly restrict news media access to parks and refuges with its proposed rule requiring fees and permits for "commercial filming."

Topics on the Beat: 
Laws & Regulations [2]
Journalism & Media [3]
Government [4]
Initiatives: 
Freedom of Information [5]
Visibility: 
Public [6]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [7]

2008 Archives: SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues [8]

December 19, 2008
SEJ voices concern over axing of CNN enviro-science units

The Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) joined several national and international science journalism organizations in writing a strong letter to CNN regarding its "shortsighted decision to cut its science, technology and environment unit in one fell swoop.... at a time when science coverage could not be more important in our national and international discourse." 

Topics on the Beat: 
Laws & Regulations [2]
Journalism & Media [3]
Government [4]
Initiatives: 
Freedom of Information [5]
Visibility: 
Public [6]
Region: 
Canada [9]
International [10]
National (U.S.) [7]

Bush OMB Claims Public Health Endangerment As Secret [11]

The White House Office of Management and Budget has denied a FOIA request by the online newsletter Greenwire to release EPA's public health "endangerment finding" on climate change.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [13]
Health [14]
Government [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

SEJ Urges Prompt, Full EPA Release of Ash Spill Testing Data [15]

SEJ urged EPA Region 4 to release promptly and fully any environmental monitoring data it collects related to the December 2008 spill of coal ash from an east Tennessee impoundment.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat: 
Government [4]
Journalism & Media [3]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

SEJ Urges Energy Department To Drop New Secrecy Rule [17]

The Society of Environmental Journalists has urged the Energy Department to abandon a new rule making it easier for the agency to deny or resist Freedom of Information Act requests.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat: 
Laws & Regulations [2]
Journalism & Media [3]
Government [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues [18]

[18]

See the latest actions taken by SEJ advocating access to environmental information, press freedom and supporting the media's right to know on behalf of the public, including urging strengthening of New York's FOIL and condemning the arrests of journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort. 

Topics on the Beat: 
Government [4]
Journalism & Media [3]
Laws & Regulations [2]
Initiatives: 
Freedom of Information [5]
Visibility: 
Public [6]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [7]

2002 Archives: SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues [19]

November 18, 2002
SEJ Task Force voices concern over FOIA exemptions in Homeland Security Act to key U.S. senators

On Monday, November 18, 2002, the SEJ Task Force [20] again voiced its concern over the FOIA exemptions contained in the Homeland Security Act. SEJ President Dan Fagin, board liaison Jim Bruggers and SEJ Freedom of Information Task Force chair Ken Ward, Jr. signed a letter sent to several key senators, urging them to support compromise language that had previously been agreed to.

Topics on the Beat: 
Laws & Regulations [2]
Journalism & Media [3]
Government [4]
Initiatives: 
Freedom of Information [5]
Visibility: 
Public [6]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [7]

EPA Greeenhouse Reporting Rules Goes Forward Despite White House [21]

Congress mandated a mandatory "registry" of greenhouse gas emissions with $3.5 million tucked into the final fiscal 2008 omnibus appropriations bill it passed late in 2007.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat: 
Government [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

Access to Congress: A Few Coverage Tips and Tricks [22]

The U.S. Congress can be even more frustrating to cover than executive agencies.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat: 
Government [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

SEJ, OTHER J-GROUPS ASK SENATE TO DROP ANIMAL SECRECY [23]

Even as major companies recalled their shipments of hamburgers made with possibly tainted meat, beef and pork lobbyists worked hard to keep U.S meat eaters from finding out what was going on. They lobbied to amend the Farm Bill to include secrecy language that would make make it illegal for anyone to publicly disclose such information. SEJ and other journalism organization are urging senators to remove that language from the bill.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat: 
Government [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility: 
Public [6]

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