"House Panel Begins Work on Food Safety Overhaul"
"A House committee began work Wednesday on a comprehensive overhaul of food safety rules that includes more inspections and new fees on producers to pay for them."
Source: CQ, 06/04/2009
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EPA Studies Used-Tire Playground Risks
"The federal government is reconsidering whether sports fields and playgrounds made from ground-up tires could harm children's health after some Environmental Protection Agency scientists raised concerns,"
Source: AP, 06/04/2009
"Recycled Radioactive Metal Contaminates Consumer Products"
"Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactive metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world."
Source: Scripps, 06/04/2009
New EPA Procedure Improves Transparency on Air Standards
The Obama EPA partially reverses a Bush-era procedure for setting health-based standards under the Clean Air Act.
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List of Nuclear Sites Released in Flub
The Government Printing Office web site apparently took down the publication after discovery of the mistake -- but the entire report is still available on the site of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.
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FDA Mulls Putting Public's Health Above Companies' Trade Secrets
NYT: "The goal is to open up a system in which the agency failed to inform the public that a widely prescribed heartburn drug was especially toxic to babies; that a diabetes medicine and a painkiller increased heart attack risks; and that antidepressants increased suicidal thoughts and behavior in children and teenagers."
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Obama Openness Promise Still Unfulfilled at MSHA
The Mine Safety and Health Administration still denies FOIA requests, including one filed in Oct. 2008 by mine safety attorney Tony Oppegard for some witness statements.
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Climate Bill Earmarks Billions for 'Clean Coal'
"In the negotiations over the Waxman-Markey climate bill, Rep. Rick Boucher inserted a giant gift to the utility industry. It would create the Carbon Storage Research Corporation and funnel $10 billion to support the corporation over the next 10 years...."
Source: SolveClimate, 06/03/2009
Beaver: "Voyage of the Dammed"
Beaver may redeem the West from false landscapes of fast-flowing streams with open banks. They may not only return the land to what it was, but conserve water.
Source: High Country News, 06/03/2009
UL Starts Certifying Green Products
"Underwriters Laboratories, whose ubiquitous product-safety labels have made it household name for more than a century, is pushing hard to make a new name for itself as a global environmental-standards tester."
Source: NYTimes, 06/03/2009
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