Public Right to Know and Freedom of Information
Published on by Heather Merenda, Environmental Services Division at City of Santa Clarita in Government
This article gives me pause. As monitoring data is collected regularly, post-disaster and as course of business, how is data that is not classified allowed to be held in secret?
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/351742-epa-holds-anti-leaking-training-for-employees
Taxonomy
- Water Quality Monitoring
- Security
2 Answers
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The Implemention of this depends on so many different stakeholders and strong lobbys. From my experience i would say the sustainability of legislations and regulations need to be clear to all of them, meaning: what are the clear advantages? At which point do the different stakeholders gain something from it (from information to money).
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All water, watershed and catchment data should be public in my view, if y company wants a permit they should be required to make their hydrology study results public domain. How to implement ?