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FOI complainant criticises ministers over refusal to disclose agreement with energy supplier for planned nuclear plant

Heavily redacted report on the impact of fracking in the UK should be released in full, information commissioner tells environment department

Government officials accused of cheerleading for fracking by sharing 'lines to take' and meeting for post-dinner drinksShale gas executives and government officials collaborated in private to manage the British public's hostility...

Government officials accused of cheerleading for fracking by sharing 'lines to take' and meeting for post-dinner drinksShale gas industry executives and government officials collaborated in private to manage the British public's...

How Whitehall austerity trumps your right to know• The strictures of austerity continue to provide useful camouflage for a coalition disinclined to match words with deeds in terms of promises made about transparency...

US, Canada, Russia and France among 13 to sign agreements with Open Data Institute co-founded by Sir Tim Berners-LeeJust one year after its foundation in London, an organisation created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel...

Employees from firms including British Gas and npower being paid to work at Department of Energy, documents revealAlmost two dozen employees from companies including the energy giants British Gas and npower are working at...

Allegations of coalition hypocrisy over green issues as critics say documents show UK has caved in to fossil fuel lobbyistsThe government has been trying to water down key environmental regulations in Brussels despite trumpeting...

I guess Climategate really put a burr under their saddle. Bishop Hill writes: As it becomes clear that there will be a determined step by bureaucrats to neuter the FOI Act by introducing charges, it is increasingly important...

Geoffrey Thorpe-Willett writes in with this: Following the Gleick incident Richard Black of the BBC thinks there is a lack of transparency for the organisations involved...

From Bishop Hill, such a short story that it is difficult to excerpt, and given the importance, and the continuation reference to the story I broke on WUWT, I don’t think he’ll mind if I repost in entirety...

Guest post by Richard Brearley This post is written to publicise an interesting anomaly in UEA’s (University of East Anglia) treatment of requests sent to it under the Environmental Information Regulations...

It seems that doing maneuvers to foil Freedom of Information Act requests has become the new contract sport of both sides of the pond. UEA and Sir Muir Russell have the British team, while Mann and UVA have the American …...

From Autonomous mind, a public relations train wreck: A Freedom of Information request submitted to the Met Office by Autonomous Mind reveals the Met Office did not tell the truth when it said it had scrapped its seasonal...

We rely globally on over-complex, over-strained systems. Act now, or wait for the much more brutal corrective of natureMan proposes; nature disposes. We are seldom more vulnerable than when we feel insulated. The miracle...