New Jersey filed a lawsuit Feb. 19, 2008, challenging the US-EPA's December 2007 rule that utilities could decide for themselves whether their air pollution increases are significant enough to require detailed record-keeping.

For more than seven months, the nation's top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states.

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

In this issue: Editors focus new attention on climate change, environment...for the complete hotlinked table of contents, click on the journal cover.

 

In this issue: Covering coal country; Three decades on the beat; Photography for reporters; Network news going green; Undersea reporting...for the complete hotlinked table of contents click, on the journal cover.

 

In this issue: Tarbell: first to take on big oil; Environment books of the year; Oil on the Brain tracts crude to gas; Conference agenda sneak peek; FOIA successes...for complete hotlinked table of contents, click the journal cover.

 

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has slightly relaxed some requirements for secrecy on decisions it makes on "critical energy infrastructure."

The Oct. 18, 2007 issue of Congressional Research Service has published a useful backgrounder on the current lack of a "shield law" protecting reporters from legal penalties, including jail, when they refuse prosecutors' requests to disclose the identities of confidential sources.