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When Is a Policy Not a Policy? When Reporters Want To Talk to EPA Staff

For some years now, under multiple administrations, journalists who have called EPA scientists and other experts asking to talk to them about matters large and small have almost universally been told something like, "I'm not allowed to talk to news media without Press Office permission." Yet EPA officials maintain they do not have a press policy. SEJ's WatchDog filed June 10, 2014 the first of what will be an ongoing series of FOIA requests to get to the bottom of this ironic situation.

Judge Orders Exxon To Produce Records on Leaky Arkansas Pipeline

ExxonMobil lost a bid to keep federal regulators and prosecutors from getting records which might show criminal negligence in its operation of the pipeline that spilled oil into the Arkansas community of Mayflower in March 2013. The judge also threw out Exxon's motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the company.

SEJ Objects to EPA "No Attribution" Presser on Carbon Rule

SEJ objected strenuously last week to the ground rules for a telephone press briefing on U.S. EPA's carbon emissions rule for existing power plants. In a June 5, 2014, letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, the Society of Environmental Journalists objected to the "truncated, anonymous 'background' tele-briefing for news media" held on the June 2 roll-out day. The text of EPA's June 10 response to SEJ's letter is here.

HAARP: "Bye-Bye To The Home Of A Favorite Internet Conspiracy Theory"

"It sure looks suspicious: a remote military compound in the south-central Alaskan wilderness filled with 180 weird-looking antennas."

Source: NPR, 06/11/2014

"GM Lab Mosquitoes May Aid Malaria Fight"

"Scientists have created mosquitoes that produce 95% male offspring, with the aim of helping control malaria."

Source: BBC News, 06/11/2014

Massive Clean-Up Starts with Removal of Toxic Muck From Passaic River

"LYNDHURST — Crews have finished removing just over 16,000 cubic yards of highly toxic sediment from a six-acre mudflat along the Passaic River, an early step in a multi-year federal cleanup spanning from Garfield down to Newark Bay.

The $20 million project, near Riverside County Park in Lyndhurst, is just a small part of what officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expect to be one of the largest federal Superfund projects in history.

Source: Newark Star-Ledger, 06/11/2014

"Pennsylvania Hindering Chesapeake Bay Cleanup"

"Pennsylvania is falling far short of goals for reducing agricultural water pollutants and urban and suburban runoff that are damaging the ecological health of the Chesapeake Bay, according to a new report by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Choose Clean Water Coalition."

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 06/11/2014

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When Is a Policy Not a Policy? When Reporters Want To Talk to EPA Staff

Judge Orders Exxon To Produce Records on Leaky Arkansas Pipeline

SEJ Objects to EPA "No Attribution" Presser on Carbon Rule

HAARP: "Bye-Bye To The Home Of A Favorite Internet Conspiracy Theory"

"GM Lab Mosquitoes May Aid Malaria Fight"

Massive Clean-Up Starts with Removal of Toxic Muck From Passaic River

"Pennsylvania Hindering Chesapeake Bay Cleanup"

Vermont: "Governor Signs Toxic Chemical Regulations Bill"

"War on Cornfield Pest Sparks Clash Over Insecticide"

"U.S. Judge Orders ExxonMobil Produce Documents on Arkansas Spill"

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