Greens push Congress for stronger FOIA protections

By Kevin Bogardus, E&E News, Jan. 15, 2021

Environmental groups, drawing from their battles for public records with the Trump administration, are calling on Congress to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act.

Fourteen green organizations, including the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, the Sierra Club and the Western Values Project, sent a letter yesterday to House and Senate lawmakers with recommendations on how to improve the more than 50-year-old transparency law.

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