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Many Tools Available For Following the Stimulus Money

The massive $787 billion economic stimulus package signed into law by President Obama Feb. 17, 2009, contains extensive funding for projects with direct and indirect environmental ties — all of which can be covered from numerous angles of interest to your audience.

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Environment Canada Gags Scientists At Conference

SEJ member Janet Pelley writes about her experience with EC scientists, policy and a press 'minder' at the recent Central Canadian Symposium on Water Quality Research.

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"Show Us The Data"

A new online project by two longstanding open-government groups allows people and groups to vote for the government information they would most like disclosed.

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FOIA Requests in 120-Day Limbo — Or Are They?

In January 2009, President Obama reversed Bush administration policy and ordered most federal agencies to err on the side of disclosure when responding to FOIA requests. Why, then, are a number of agencies still operating under the old policies?

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Obscure Farm Bill Provision Blacks Out Agricultural Data

The USDA is interpreting a provision in the 2008 Farm Bill so broadly that it may amount to a FOIA exemption for most information about individual agricultural operations.

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Other - Climate Experts Rolodex

Ronald G. Prinn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Expertise: General. Phone:(617)253-2452. E-mail. Web site. Publications and Bio.

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Climate Change Impacts

Christopher Field

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Extreme Weather, Proposed Hurricane-Climate Link

Judith Curry
Georgia Institute of Technology. Expertise: Ocean and atmospheric thermodynamics; polar clouds; hurricanes. Phone:(404) 894-3955 (Secretary); (404) 803-2012 (Cell). E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.

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Atmospheric Chemistry — Stratospheric Ozone

Daniel L. Albritton
NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory. Phone: (303) 497-5785. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio (scroll down).

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Oceanography and Ocean-Climate Links — Sudden Climate Change

Tim Barnett
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. Expertise: Oceanography, ENSO, Detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change. Phone: (858)534-3223. E-mail: tbarnett@ucsd.edu or timdotbarnett@ucsd.edu. Bio.

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