Following the announcement, Ceres, a national coalition of investors and public interest organizations, released a report detailing what stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards would mean for the U.S. economy.

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For starters, he asked his Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell to join with AGs of 13 other states who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with EPA on August 10, 2012, asking for any and all correspondence between EPA and a list of 80 environmental, labor union and public interest organizations that have been party to litigation since the start of the Obama administration.

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Participants in that treaty tried to finalize e-waste guidelines, but they were not adopted because some developed countries and the electronics industry would not agree without adding loopholes to allow repairable electronic waste to be exempted, said advocacy group IPEN, a global network of more than 700 public interest non-governmental organizations.

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The Department of Justice, in reaching out to media organizations and public interest groups, is doing the right thing in terms of soliciting input in how to improve the guidelines for when they can issue subpoenas like they did in the Associated Press case.

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They were sealed until Friday, after The Associated Press and other news organizations successfully argued that it was in the public interest to release them.

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Conservation organizations, they rely on the public, you know, there has to be public interest in the species they are trying to conserve or they can't get the money and they can't get people interested in what they are trying to do.

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