"Senate Panel Trims Interior-EPA Budget"
A Senate Appropriations subcommitte slashed $200 million from the spending bill for the Interior Department and EPA.
Source: Greenwire, 06/24/2009
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San Joaquin Valley Cities Divert Cleanup Funds
"A handful of San Joaquin Valley cities and public agencies have used millions of dollars meant for filtering contaminated water for entirely unrelated purposes."
Source: Fresno Bee, 06/22/2009
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
This 2009 US Global Change Research Program report summarizes current science and focuses on impacts in different regions of the U.S. and on various aspects of society and the economy such as energy, water, agriculture, and health.
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Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
The 2009 US Global Change Research Program report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, summarizes current science and focuses on impacts in different regions of the U.S. and on various aspects of society and the economy such as energy, water, agriculture, and health.
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Two Agencies Hide Neglect of Coal-Dam Safety with Secrecy
US EPA and Army Corps of Engineers say they "cannot make the list of 'high hazard' coal ash impoundment sites public," even though risk to communities exists -- like the December 2008 pond failure at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee.
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Projects in 12 States Share Wildfire Funding
$15 million of Stimulus funding for 55 projects, designed to help reduce wildfire hazards and reclaim burned lands, could be of substantial interest in the receiving communities.
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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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