Resources 'United States'
The Carter Center Conference adopted the "Atlanta Declaration and Plan of Action for the Advancement of Access to Information". The Declaration states that access to information is a…
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal law that gives the public the right to make requests for United States federal agency records. All federal agencies, including the U.S.…
The White House CEQ Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Center provides basic instructions on obtaining information through FOIA requests for CEQ documents. Pursuant to the FOIA and Executive Order…
Terms of Use are rules set up by the owner of a given type of intellectual property, such as the content appearing on a website, to govern how the content may be legally used. They let the viewer…
The City of Chicago's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request form (7/31/03) provides one model of the type of information needed by a municipal agency to process a FOIA request.
WRI’s new book Voice and Choice: Opening the Door to Environmental Democracy looks at the progress governments have made in providing access to environmental decision-making. In the hope of…
The United States federal government makes an overwhelming amount of data publicly available each year. Laws require these disclosures in the name of transparency and accountability, however, the…
OARE is an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers. It enables…
On 15 April at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT), the public is invited to chat with Brad Kenney about the connection between rising concerns about global issues such as climate change and resource conservation…
The Regulatory Resource Center is designed to educate citizens on how they can become involved in the American regulatory process ("Advocacy Center") and to inform the public about the…
