"Louisiana Governor Seals Oil-Spill Records"
Louisian Gov. Bobby Jindal has vetoed Republican-sponsored state legislation that would have made public all records from his office related to the BP Gulf oil spill.
Source: Green (NYT), 07/01/2010
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Hired BP Muscle Still Blocking Access; ACLU Weighs In
Mother Jones' Mac McClelland reports that some of those guys wearing uniforms and harassing journalists are actually off-duty local law enforcement officers being paid for their time by BP.
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SEJ Urges Nuclear Regulatory Commission To Improve Openness
SEJ's comments included suggesting the NRC lose the "minders" that babysit agency people while they talk to reporters and asking that the NRC press operation do its job of keeping reporters and the public apprised of real news.
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TOOLBOX: Follow the Money on Gulf Oil Spill Contracts
Investigative Reporters and Editors brings news of a special Gulf Oil Spill Report put out by the Federal Procurement Data System which lists all federal contracts that the General Services Administration (GSA) knows about.
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TOOLBOX: Database May Reveal an Oil Spill Near You
Every spill report coming in to the NRC goes into a database which is, for the most part, publicly accessible. You can query the database online, or download it for use in your own computer-assisted reporting project.
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"Getting Help From the Press"
A Pew Charitable Trusts workshop in the Netherlands Antilles in 2002 was supposed to be to train scientists in how to deal with the media. But did it amount to a junket that helped spin stories in a way that put out Pew's message on depleted fisheries?
Source: Gloucester Times, 06/30/2010
"Health of Exxon Valdez Cleanup Workers Was Never Studied"
"You'd think that more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, scientists would know what, if any, long-term health dangers face the thousands of workers needed to clean up the Gulf of Mexico spill. You'd be wrong."
Source: McClatchy, 06/30/2010
"Oil Rigs and the Fishermen Who Love Them"
"Louisiana's fishing industry is getting slammed by the BP spill. So why does it still support offshore drilling?"
Source: Mother Jones, 06/30/2010
"Warning About Strawberry Field Chemical Ignored, Scientists Say"
"California pesticide regulators plan to approve a new agricultural chemical called methyl iodide for the state's coastal strawberry fields, allowing levels of exposure that the state's own experts say will put farmworkers and bystanders at risk."
Source: California Watch, 06/30/2010
"Enviro Group Sues to Force BPA Ban in Food Packaging"
"A leading environmental group filed a court challenge today to the Food and Drug Administration's handling of bisphenol A, aiming to force the agency to act on a 20-month-old request to bar the controversial chemical from food packaging."
Source: Greenwire, 06/30/2010
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