"China Arrests Anti-Smog Campaigners"
"Activists are thought to have been inspired by a viral documentary that tried to highlight China's toxic smog problem but was censored by Beijing"
Source: Telegraph, 03/10/2015
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Groups FOIA Federal Rules for Allowing Petroleum Export Ban Exceptions
For decades, U.S. politicians have made energy independence a patriotic platitude — with one result being a ban on exporting crude oil produced in the U.S. Now some oil companies are getting exceptions to the export ban for a product called "condensate," and the Commerce Department won't say why. So a coalition of environmental groups have filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out.
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Sunshine Week Highlights Open Government March 15-21
News media and open-government groups across the country will field events March 15-21, 2015, to emphasize the importance of freedom of information to democratic government. Here is a short preliminary list of some major Sunshine Week events already scheduled.
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‘Anti-Petroleum’ Movement a Growing Security Threat To Canada: Mounties
"The RCMP has labelled the 'anti-petroleum' movement as a growing and violent threat to Canada’s security, raising fears among environmentalists that they face increased surveillance, and possibly worse, under the Harper government’s new terrorism legislation."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 02/19/2015
Legislators from Both Parties Move FOIA Bills Despite Bank Lobby, FTC
The Senate Judiciary Committee, despite changing from Democrat to Republican control, unanimously approved a FOIA bill (S 337) on February 5, 2015. A similar House bill (HR 653) was introduced February 2 and awaits action by the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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"Anti-Oilsands Activists In The U.S. Are Getting Visits From The FBI"
"WASHINGTON - Unexpected visitors have been dropping in on anti-oil activists in the United States — knocking on doors, calling, texting, contacting family members. The visitors are federal agents."
Source: Canadian Press, 02/09/2015
Greens Fume Over Obama’s Bid To Divert Gulf Restoration Funding
"National environmental groups today blasted an Obama administration proposal to divert more than $3 billion in future oil and gas revenues due to Gulf Coast states to pay for land conservation, rural counties, wildlife grants, coastal restoration or other 'national priorities,' warning that such a move would stymie coastal restoration projects in Louisiana."
Source: Greenwire, 02/06/2015
"Obama's Budget Reveals Depth and Breadth of His Climate Agenda"
"However the negotiations with Congress turn out, the budget will lock in the course of climate policy through the next presidential election."
Source: InsideClimate News, 02/03/2015
Obama's 2016 Budget Urges Deeper State Cuts To Power Plant Emissions
"President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget proposes $7.4 billion to fund clean energy technologies and a $4 billion fund to encourage U.S. states to make faster and deeper cuts to emissions from power plants, officials told Reuters."
Source: Reuters, 02/02/2015
"NJ Lead Poisoning Fund To Get Hearing"
"New Jersey's depleted lead poisoning prevention fund, raided to pay other government bills, is poised to get a full public airing, following an Asbury Park Press investigation."
Source: Asbury Park Press, 01/30/2015
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