TOOLBOX: Senate Expenditures Now Online
Expenditure data are not yet available for all Senators but you can search for the person you are interested in on the Center for Responsive Politics' campaign data site OpenSecrets.org.
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TOOLBOX: EPA Adds 6,300 Chemicals and 3,800 Facilities to Database
Find out more about potentially toxic chemicals in public commerce in the Envirofacts database, updated by EPA with previously unavailable information it collects under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
Did Justice Dept. Prevent Abramoff from Appearing in Abramoff Film?
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed FOIA requests for information, alleging that the Justice Department refused to let the incarcerated super-lobbyist do on-camera interviews.
Forest Service Gags Employees, Belies Obama Openness Vow
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility obtained and disclosed a USFS memo ordering its law enforcement personnel not to talk to reporters about anything without first getting clearance from its Washington director and press office.
Judge Backs Chevron's Grab for Documentary Out-takes in Ecuador Case
A federal district judge in New York ordered film-maker Joe Berlinger to turn over more than 600 hours of raw footage from his documentary "Crude," about a lawsuit by natives in Ecuador charging Chevron with polluting the Amazon rainforest there.
Bush EPA Suppressed NM Waste Records To Sidestep FOIA
EPA Region 6 officials deliberately stopped creating written records related to their oversight of a New Mexico waste facility in order to thwart Freedom of Information Act requests from a citizens' group, according to an EPA Inspector General's report.
Calif. Desalination Plant: Dream Water Supply or Drain on Taxes?
Local officials in Carlsbad, Calif., see salvation for their water-starved community in a huge proposed desalination plant. Poseidon Resources, the company hoping to build it, says building it won't cost taxpayers and ratepayers a dime. But tough investigative reporting shows that southern Californians would pay at least $640 million over 30 years for the project.
Source: DC Bureau, 05/19/2010
"Greenville Opposes Burying CO2"
"'NUMBY' -- Not Under My BackYard. That's what Greenville, Ohio, residents told the U.S. government when it wanted to bury global warming emissions under the town."
Source: Marketplace, 05/19/2010
"Denial-Palooza Round 4: ...Groups Funded by Exxon, Koch Industries"
The Heartland Institute's fourth annual gathering of climate change deniers May 16-18 in Chicago, organized by groups funded by the oil and coal industries, drew little media attention.
Source: DeSmogBlog, 05/19/2010
"Ohio Coal-Fired Power Plant Shuttered in $16 Million Settlement"
"American Municipal Power, an Ohio nonprofit utility, will permanently retire its Richard H. Gorsuch Station coal-fired power plant near Marietta, Ohio under a settlement to resolve violations of the Clean Air Act."
Source: ENS, 05/19/2010
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