"EPA: Cyberattack Threatened Agency's 'Command And Control'"
"U.S. EPA had an unwanted visitor almost five years ago."
Source: Greenwire, 08/30/2016
Government
Texting During "Open" Meetings an Area of Concern
Is text messaging compatible with open meetings? Courts have for several years upheld the notion that texts can be public records. The problem, of course, is knowing about them — since they are less visible than meeting minutes. Image: © Clipart.com.
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"White House Says Feds Doing Their Part In Flood Response"
"President Barack Obama is making his first visit to flood-ravaged southern Louisiana as he attempts to assure the many thousands who have suffered damage to their homes, schools and businesses that his administration has made their recovery a priority."
Source: AP, 08/23/2016
"Campaign 2016: Energy Gurus Take Reins Of Clinton Team"
"Ken Salazar and Jennifer Granholm will be helping to pick agency leaders and map out policy goals and could be in line for top administration jobs if Hillary Clinton clinches the White House."
Source: Greenwire, 08/17/2016
We Were Promised Greenest Olympics Ever. We Got An Ecological Disaster
"On a cool December night in Paris, at an awards ceremony in the city’s 3rd arrondissement, Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, took the stage to thunderous applause from an audience full of his fellow mayors from around the world. Paes’ voiced boomed as he stressed the importance of cities leading the fight against climate change ...."
Source: Climate Progress, 08/05/2016
"Australia Orders Climate Change U-Turn At Peak Science Body"
"Australia's re-elected conservative government has announced a U-turn in its climate change policy, reinstating climate science as the bedrock of its peak science body [CSIRO] just months after slashing its funding and axing hundreds of jobs."
Source: Reuters, 08/04/2016
Big FOIA Issue: Should Release To One Mean Release To All?
Journalists are sometimes competitive — and even secretive about the exclusive "scoops" they may be working on, lest their competitors beat them to publication. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is conducting a survey to get journalists' opinions on the Obama admin's proposed release-to-one-release-to-all policy.
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How Do 2016 Presidential Candidates Stand on Open Government?
The news media often defend the freedom-of-information principles that allow them to hold government accountable for their audiences. But will they ask presidential candidates during the 2016 presidential debates how they stand on government transparency? Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton (pictured) doesn't do press conferences.
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"White House Directs Federal Agencies To Consider Climate Change"
"U.S. federal agencies should disclose whether their actions and decisions will have an impact on climate change, the White House announced on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 08/03/2016
"Zika Fear Prompts Travel Warning For Miami, CDC’s First In U.S."
"Federal health authorities on Monday urged pregnant women not to visit a South Florida neighborhood where new cases of the Zika virus have emerged, the first time officials have warned against travel to part of the continental United States due to the outbreak of an infectious disease."
Source: Wash Post, 08/02/2016
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