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Read more about 2008 Archives: SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues [1]

Bush OMB Claims Public Health Endangerment As Secret [10]

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.

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SEJ Urges Prompt, Full EPA Release of Ash Spill Testing Data [14]

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.

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SEJ Urges Energy Department To Drop New Secrecy Rule [16]

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.

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SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues [17]

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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 condemning the ICE arrest of a Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez, urging strengthening of New York's FOIL and condemning the arrests of journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort.

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2002 Archives: SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues [18]

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 [19] 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.

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DOT Stifles Report on How Climate Change Will Affect Gulf Coast Infrastructure [20]

It wasn't exactly a secret that climate change will have drastic and often harmful impacts on the roads and causeways, chemical plants and oil/gas pipelines, and shipping facilities along the Gulf Coast. Two reports released in March had already said so.

But another report on the same subject from the Department of Transportation was buried deep in the bureaucracy - as has been the case with many reports on climate change impacts during the past eight years.

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Utilities Say Public Can't Handle the Truth About Drugs in Water [21]

When water providers find pharmaceuticals in drinking water, they rarely tell the public.

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Pollution [22]

Water & Oceans [23]

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Soybean Groups Pull Funding for Biofuel Research Over Climate Findings [24]

Two soybean industry groups temporarily suspended about $1.5 million in grants to the University of Minnesota for biofuel research after it found using food crops for fuel could worsen global warming and cause other environmental harm.

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