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- A US House Oversight Committee report released in January 2009 found that federal agencies frequently ignore the findings and recommendations of their inspectors general.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:
SECRECY ON ANIMAL ID SYSTEM CHALLENGED, WRITTEN INTO FARM BILL
The Senate Agriculture Committee has written an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act for records in the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). The language, which is in the draft version of the Farm Bill and would prevent American meat eaters from knowing about any problems with their meat was introduced by farmers and members of the food industry.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:SEJ, J-Groups Urge Interior To Loosen Limits on Filming
SEJ and 18 other journalism groups urged the Department of the Interior Oct. 19, 2007, to revise a proposed rule that would keep freelancers and documentarians from covering news in National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and other DOI lands.
SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:SEJ Urges Energy Department To Drop New Secrecy Rule
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:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:FERC Slightly Eases Some Secrecy Requirements
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has slightly relaxed some requirements for secrecy on decisions it makes on "critical energy infrastructure."
SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:PENNSYLVANIA FORBIDS LABELING OF MILK PRODUCED WITHOUT ARTIFICIAL HORMONES
Consumers who want to choose milk produced without the use of artificial hormones are out of luck - if they live in Pennsylvania. That is not a choice the state will allow them.Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Artist Sues Local Cops Over Right To Photograph Power Lines
Shirley E. Scheier, a University of Washington fine-arts professor, was handcuffed, frisked, and detained for 44 minutes when she took some art photos of powerlines against the sky in Snohomish County, Washington.
SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:New Smithsonian Head Pleads To Keep FOIA Exemption
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:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Comments Sought On Formaldehyde In Wood Products
Concerns over emissions from formaldehyde in pressed-wood products have been building for many years. California's new rules addressing the problem went into effect Jan. 1, 2009. Now EPA is looking at following suit.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Energy Department Midnight Reg Seeks To Bind Obama To Keep Old Secrets
The Energy Department in December 2008 published an 11th-hour proposed amendment to the Bush administration's secrecy rules that shroud the policies that brought Americans Enron, California blackouts, and $4 gasoline.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility: