House Passes Bill To Open Up Federal Advisory Committees
The House passed a bill that would do more to ensure open records and meetings of federal advisory committees.
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Justice Settles Hatfill Case, Locy Jail Threat Still Pends
With the Hatfil anthrax case settled, why is a court still threatening reporter Toni Locy with jail and fines for refusing to reveal the identity of confidential sources?
Corps Withholds Dam Inventory Data
The Army Corps of Engineers has stopped giving the public access to a database that shows how well federal agencies are doing at dam safety.
Study: FOIA Reforms Haven't Brought Better Performance -- Yet
Despite a Bush Executive Order ostensibly aimed at improving agency FOIA performance, most agencies have little to show two years later.
National Academies Study Calls for Restoration of Climate Sensors
How can you tell whether global warming is happening if the White House shuts down the satellites needed to sense it by cutting their budgets?
Center For Public Integrity Gets SPJ Prize For Superfund Probe
The Center for Public Integrity gets an award most journalists would envy -- for its Superfund expose.
TOOLBOX: Environmental Databases Rich With Reporting Tools -- Despite Limits
There are lots of good databases out there to help environmental reporters. Here are a few more you may not know.
White-House-Suppressed Climate 'Endangerment Finding' Released
How did the White House suppress an EPA finding that human-induced greenhouse warming was a threat to human health (and thus subject to regulation)? By refusing to read it. But you can read it here.
Cheney's Office Censored Warming Testimony
Vice President Cheney's office blacked out scientific testimony to Congress on the public health consequences of climate change
Reprint: A Reporter's Bill Of Rights
Here's the press policy a lot of journalists would like to see at all agencies.
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