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Post-Shutdown, An Ocean of Outrage Greets Interior’s Proposed FOIA Changes

From: Think Progress

“More than 130 groups and organizations have submitted public comments opposing the Interior Department’s efforts to crack down on public information requests —…

Proposed FOIA Rule Provokes Response

From: Coastal Review

“Information provided on the Federal Register states that the Department published a final rule in 2012 that updated and replaced the Department’s previous Freedom…

Interior Dept. Plan to Streamline FOIA Responses Alarms Transparency Groups

From: Government Executive

“An Interior Department proposed rule published late last month to ease the workload of its Freedom of Information Office staff has drawn fire from at least…

Environmentalists and Feds Reach Settlement Over Bison Mgmt

From: Courthouse News

“Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) said “a new era may be dawning” over management of the National Bison Range in Moiese, Montana. Management…

Trump’s EPA Just Handed Another Gift to Big Polluters: Letter to the Editor

From: Cleveland

“With new rules imposing the greatest restrictions on the Clean Water Act since its passage in 1972, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency has handed yet another…


News Releases

WHERE ARE THE DIRTIEST SITES IN NEW JERSEY - DON’T ASK THE STATE

State Abandons Pollution Priority Listing to Let Politics Dictate Cleanup Funding

AERIAL GUNNING BATTLE SHIFTS TO SOUTH DAKOTA

State Agents Crash Four Planes since 1998 as Accident Toll Mounts Nationally

BUSH ORDERS FEDERAL AGENCIES TO PROMOTE HUNTING

Refuges, Forests and Grasslands Directed to Maximize “Hunting Opportunities”

RICHARDSON IS ONLY CANDIDATE TO PLEDGE OPEN GOVERNMENT

Huckabee Says No to Pledge but Other Candidates Are Still Thinking

EPA GROWING MORE DEPENDENT ON CORPORATE RESEARCH PACTS

Corporate Research Needs Met with Tax Dollars Outside of Congressional Review