Resources 'United States'
The Bay Area Working Group on the Precautionary Principle is a diverse collaborative of organizations and individuals that promotes and implements precautionary action to protect health and the…
This guide provides a basic roadmap to the legal issues that weblog publishers ('bloggers') may confront and encourages online publishers to blog freely with the knowledge that their…
The early NGO publication deals with the main features of the Aarhus Convention, from its background to its goals. Readers are advised to keep in mind the time of publication.
Though freedom of information laws grant the general public rights to access government information, many citizens do not know how to use them and often journalist act as intermediaries between the…
The U.S. office of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW U.S.)provides public interest lawyers and scientists around the world withtraining and resources to protect the environment through…
'The Nonprofit Agenda' contains policy recommendations based on a survey of state and local nonprofit leaders who were asked to rank policy priorities for strengthening the nonprofit sector…
The web site of the first national Sunshine Week, 13-19 March 2005. Daily and weekly newspapers, broadcasters, bloggers and other media, as well as federal and state legislators, librarians, civic…
This article discusses the denial by the United States Environmental Protection Agency of a fee waiver for two environmental freedom of information requests. Appealing such denials can cost media…
This article reports on changes to the United States Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) proposed in 2005 by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Under the first two proposed rules, facilities…
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) gave USEPA the authority to control hazardous waste from the "cradle-to-grave." This manual provides a practical "how-to" guide…
