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• Information on amendments to hazardous substances consent legislation

  
  What's new at HSE — Authority: 144
  This circular informs of changes to the Planning (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 1992 (the Consent Regulations) brought about in England by the Planning (Hazardous Substances) (Amendment)(England) Regulations (the Amendment Regulations) which came into force on 1 October 2009. Note: These Amendment Regulations ...
  16 hours ago

• Celebrating Unsung Heroes in the Fight for Open Government

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 131
  The American Society of News Editors announced next years national Sunshine Week will highlight local heroes across America who have played significant roles in fighting for open government. National Sunshine Week will be March 14 - 20. "There are a lot of unsung heroes in the battle for freedom of information, and ...
  2 days ago

• Willis vs. The CRU: A History of (FOI) Evasion

  
  The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE — Authority: 543
  (a guest blog by Willis Eschenbach, originally posted to the Climate Sceptics mailing list. Published almost completely as-is).An excerpt for those without time to read it allthe issue is not Trenberth or scientists talking smack. It is the illegal evasion of legitmate scientific requests for data needed to replicate ...
  3 days ago

• The Case of the 1,069 Purloined Letters

  
  Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log — Authority: 110
  Around eleven this morning, Gretchen let me know that my nephew, Henry Palikowski, Junior, wished to arrange for a telephone consultation today whenever I had the free time in my schedule.  I certainly had no problem with that - because while Congress sometimes stages a circus this time of year, as it is doing at the ...
  3 days ago

• Climatic Research Unit Hacked Emails, Searchable here…

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  This single event could bring down the entire Global Warming Hoax. These are the recently hacked emails from a collection of information put together by the CRU prior to a FoI redaction process. The emails were leaked at the end of last week after hackers penetrated the servers of the Climatic Research Unit, which is ...
  4 days ago

• AST/003 - NSD BMS Assessment Reports

  
  What's new at HSE — Authority: 144
  This procedure describes the processes and procedure for reporting work requested in COIN Cases It is for: 1. Ensuring consistent, quality, proportionate reporting to meet the regulatory need… View full NSD BMS Assessment AST/003 - Assessment Reports
  4 days ago

• CRU Emails – search engine now online

  
  Watts Up With That? — Authority: 775
  Quite a lot of interest continues in the files from CRU that were leaked/hacked and placed on a Russian FTP server. Quite a number of other websites have been things with them ranging from commentary to evaluation of validity. With over 1000 emails, it is a bit of a task to wade through. The Internet is an amazing ...
  6 days ago

• Climate Research Unit’s junk science methodology

  
  mooseandsquirrel.ca — Authority: 437
  One of the documents in the hacked files from the U.K.’s Climate Research Unit is a Word file named “jones-foithoughts”. Apparently, these are the “thoughts” of climate scientist Dr. Phil Jones, director of the CRU: Options appear to be: 1. Send them the data 2. Send them a subset removing station data ...
  6 days ago

• Bruce and Sara Schundler: Champions of Mesa Verde National Park and FOIA

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 131
  Heroic FOI work is being done by former NJ public official, Bruce Schundler, and his wife as they seek accountability at the Mesa Verde National Park. Initially trying to avoid the bureaucratic costs of a FOIA request but ultimately forced to file a formal FOIA request and not seeking any statutory fee waivers, the ...
  1 week ago

• West Virginia Lawmakers Suggest Revising State FOIA Statute

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 131
  West Virginia state representative and House Judiciary Chairwoman Carrie Webster says the legislature should revisit the many exemptions and exceptions made to the states Freedom of Information Act. Websters statement comes on the heels of a West Virgnia Supreme Court decision in which 13 emails between former Chief ...
  1 week ago

• FOIA Suits Filed to Gain Information About Federal Bailout Programs

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 131
  Public interest investigation group Judicial Watch has filed two new FOIA lawsuits against the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve for their respective failures to provide information about the federal governments bailout programs.The group filed a request with the Treasury Department on June 19, 2009 ...
  1 week ago

• FOIA at Work: FBI watched Studs Terkel

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 131
  The late Chicago author Studs Terkel, whose work focused on working people and the downtown, was watched by the FBI. An FBI file released to NYCity News Service under the FOIA also shows Terkel once applied for a job with the FBI, but was turned down.Get more here.
  1 week ago

• Work instruction for LPG pipework replacement inspection campaign

  
  What's new at HSE — Authority: 144
  The aim of this inspection campaign is to obtain assurance that LPG users (and suppliers) are undertaking sensible and proportionate management of the risks arising from small and medium-sized bulk vessel LPG installations, including the replacement or ongoing inspection of buried metallic pipework. The target ...
  1 week ago

• Case Report – IPC blesses manual processing of FOI request despite push for “e-access”

  
  All About Information — Authority: 116
  On October 29th the IPC/Ontario issued an order in what appears to be a well-litigated dispute about the access request process. It rejected a challenge to the reasonableness of a search and the reasonableness of a fee estimate that was based on the respondent municipality’s manual process of providing access. The ...
  1 week ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  1 week ago

• Scottish Government spending £8.1 million on 225 lawyers salaries as more Scots miss out on legal representation, access to justice

  
  A Diary of Injustice in Scotland - by Peter Cherbi — Authority: 118
  Scottish Government now have hundreds of lawyers paid for by taxpayers. While thousands of ordinary Scots struggle trying to find or afford legal representation in our own country, documents released under Freedom of Information legislation reveal the Scottish Government has quietly authorised a multi million pound ...
  2 weeks ago

• DCSF ask do i want their reply to my FOIs to be public?

  
  Staffordshire — Authority: 465
  M Stafford 28 July 2009 Dear Sir or Madam, Please could you supply us with a frequency distribution of the answers to question 22 of the postal questionnaire and question 51 of the online questionnaire administered to Local Authorities as part of the Review of Elective Home Education by Graham Badman. Please ...
  2 weeks ago

• Immigration Has “Cost Britain” Says Brown as 30 Foreign Criminals Released Every Month

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 604
  Immigration has “cost” some parts of Britain as it has impacted on jobs, wages and even family ties, Gordon Brown said as news broke that at least 30 serious foreign criminals are released from the Dover detention centre each month. The release statistics, obtained by a local newspaper in Dover using a Freedom of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Loch Striven ship dump: rolling story

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 489
  Update 18.00 12th November: Maersk Maryland and Maersk Maine are now both in port in Algeciras in the south of Spain. Both are showing Greenock as their next destination, with an ETA of midday on 16th November for Maine and 6.00pm on the same day for Maryland. This supports the information given by Stew in [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Most Complained-About Chicago Cops List Remains Closed

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 131
  A list naming the 662 Chicago Police officers with 10 or more complaints filed against them will remain closed.A journalist and 28 Chicago alderman sought access to the list compiled in connection with a 2004 suit against the Chicago Police Department.  Because that case has been settled, the federal appeals court ...
  2 weeks ago

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