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DOJ Guidance Offers Hook for Your FOIA Requests

Journalists' Freedom of Information Act requests will have more clout if they demand specific justification for each redaction. A new Justice Department guidance document makes clear this is mandatory for most agencies.

Coalition of Groups Readies Openness Agenda for Next Administration

A broad coalition of open-government groups is finalizing an ambitious agenda to improve public access to information in the next administration.

AREVA Bans Pens, Cameras, Recorders at SEJ's Lynchburg Nuclear Tour

AREVA, the world's largest builder of nuclear reactors, banned pens, recorders and cameras during a field trip to the company's Lynchburg facilities organized by SEJ during its 2008 annual meeting held in Roanoke, VA.

Groups, Media Pitch Open-Government Proposals To New Administration

In an effort to increase government accountability and transparency, media groups put forward a new "21st Century Right-to-Know Agenda."

TOOLBOX: Contractor Misconduct Database Offers Gumshoes Leads

The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has a new tool for investigative journalists. Reporters can now snoop around the Federal Contractor Misconduct Database to find misdeeds by federal contractors.

Smithsonian Adopts FOIA-Like Policies

The Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents held its first public meeting in 162 years November 17, 2008. This marks a move away from existing policies that have made the institution's meetings and records less open to public scrutiny than other federal entities.

Investors Demand Climate-Risk Disclosure

Weary of undisclosed corporate financial risk, battered stock investors are pressuring companies to disclose the economic risks they face from climate change.

Wide Range of Environmental Issues Before Supreme Court

US Supreme Court to hear six cases with important environmental implications. Issues involved are: use of sonar in Naval training; logging in California; power plant operation; disposal of mining wastes; royalties paid to the Navajo Nation on coal leases; and liability under Superfund law.

Canadian Tar Sands Pollution Moves South to US Refineries

New U.S. refineries will process crude oil from Canada's Tar Sands, which means that much of the pollution associated with that refining will occur in the lower 48.

Some States Win, Some Lose with Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs

Compact fluorescent lighting reduces energy use, but what's the trade-off in mercury exposure via broken bulbs and disposal? Now a team of Yale scientists has estimated where there will be a net increase or decrease in mercury emissions.

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