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Where Are They Now?: Former Sask. Reporter Never Afraid to Stand up to Big Chemical Corporations

Environment

Source: Regina Leader-Post | Published: 10/10/2017

The volume of paper documents — some 200,000 — was an obvious deterrent. So too was the scanning technology over the years. But von Stackelberg always kept his eye on that changing technology and eventually they decided the time was right. Partnering with the Center for Media and Democracy and the Bioscience Resource Project, von Stackelberg and van Strum digitized the thousands of pages of documents and put them online as The Poison Papers.

Gorsuch Set to Speak to Organization with Alleged Ties to Islamophobia

Koch, SPN

Source: LawNewz | Published: 9/28/2017

[The Fund for American Studies] is a far-right organization with ties to myriad conservative academic fronts, legal institutions and ideological welfare organizations. TFAS is directly tied to the State Policy Network (SPN) group of think tanks and tax-exempt entities, according to The Center for Media and Democracy. SPN itself is funded by various multinational corporations including Facebook, Walmart and has their ground operation almost entirely paid for by the Koch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity.

Scott Pruitt Dings Taxpayers for a $25,000 Cone of Silence So He Can Keep His Phone Calls Secret

Democracy, Environment

Source: Daily Kos | Published: 9/26/2017

In a change from longstanding practice, he doesn’t post his appointment schedules. And, after scrutiny of his emails as attorney general of Oklahoma were pried loose by The New York Times and a lawsuit from the Center for Media and Democracy—exposing his close ties to energy companies in his efforts to smash regulations affecting them—Pruitt avoids email exchanges with EPA staffers, preferring face-to-face meetings and verbal instructions. Plausible deniability enabled.

EPA Spending Almost $25,000 to Install a Secure Phone Booth for Scott Pruitt

Democracy, Environment

Source: The Washington Post | Published: 9/26/2017

Thousands more pages of emails from his time as Oklahoma’s attorney general, released earlier this year after the Center for Media and Democracy sued for them to be made public, detailed an often-chummy relationship between Pruitt’s office and Devon Energy, a major oil and gas exploration and production company based in Oklahoma City.

State AG, Press Association Team Up for Open Records/Open Meetings Seminars

Democracy, Environment

Source: Red Dirt Report | Published: 9/25/2017

The meetings were last hosted in 2014 and drew more than 600 attendees from state and local offices, school boards, public officials and residents. Hunter’s renewal of the meetings comes on the heels of his predecessor Scott Pruitt, now head of the Environmental Protection Agency, who was often the subject of open records requests himself. In fact, prior to being sworn in as President Donald Trump’s pick to head the agency, the Center for Media and Democracy filed nine open records requests with the AG’s office beginning in January 2015.

Protect the Privacy of Cross-Border Data: Stop the DOJ Bill

Democracy

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation | Published: 9/24/2017

In 2016 and again in 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) proposed legislation that would empower the U.S. executive branch to enter bilateral surveillance agreements with foreign nations. Under these agreements, police in both nations would have the reciprocal power to bypass [Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties]—and each other’s privacy laws—and instead make direct demands to service providers for data located in the other nation.

EFF and a coalition of 20 other privacy advocates sent a letter to Congress opposing this DOJ bill. The other signatories are Access Now, Advocacy for Principled Action in Government, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Center for Media and Democracy, the Constitutional Alliance, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Defending Rights & Dissent, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, the Government Accountability Project, Government Information Watch, Human Rights Watch, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Security Counselors, New America’s Open Technology Institute, the Project on Government Oversight, and Restore the Fourth.