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SEJ Urges Energy Department To Drop New Secrecy Rule [1]

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

SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues [8]

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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 Maryland Gov. Wes Moore to cease retaliation against local news outlets, voicing concern over NPS limits on info sharing, urging FCC to protect cellphone privacy and anonymous communications, opposing federal worker nondisclosure agreements and more. 

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

2002 Archives: SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues [10]

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 [11] 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 [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Government [5]
Initiatives: 
Freedom of Information [9]
Visibility: 
Public [7]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]

EPA Greeenhouse Reporting Rules Goes Forward Despite White House [12]

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 [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Government [5]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]

Access to Congress: A Few Coverage Tips and Tricks [13]

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

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Government [5]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]

SEJ, OTHER J-GROUPS ASK SENATE TO DROP ANIMAL SECRECY [14]

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 [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Government [5]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility: 
Public [7]

Dig Up Dirt with Fewer Clicks at New EPA Site (Review) [15]

Reporters starved for environmental information and desperate for local story ideas, rejoice. Well, at least don't look so glum. EPA has thrown you a bone or two with its newly redesigned web site.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Government [5]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility: 
Public [7]

New Smithsonian Head Pleads To Keep FOIA Exemption [16]

The Smithsonian Institution, a federal agency with many environment-related research and public education activities, opposes a Congressional move that would subject it to the same open-records law that applies to other executive branch agencies.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Laws & Regulations [3]
Government [5]
Region: 
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [17]
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Public [7]

Report Card Shows No Slackening of Secrecy Trend [18]

The fifth annual report card produced by OpenTheGovernment.org offers hard numbers from a range of indicators that Bush Administration secrecy continues.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Government [5]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility: 
Public [7]

Secret Study on Water Infrastructure Risks Now Available [19]

A Congressional Research Service report on terrorism and security issues facing sewage treatment and drinking water plants, dams and reservoirs, and other water infrastructure is full of ideas that reporters could turn into local stories — if only they were allowed to see it.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Water & Oceans [20]
Government [5]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [7]

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