April 14, 2008 EPA OPENS CHEMICAL RISK ASSESSMENT TO CORPORATE LOBBYING — New Process Marginalizes Government Scientists and Promotes Industry Influence
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March 18, 2008 FEDERAL WILDLIFE SCIENTISTS CAUGHT IN ETHICS TUG-OF-WAR — Conflicting Orders Make Politically Sensitive Scientific Work a Career Minefield
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March 3, 2008 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT STAGES GRAND CANYON GREEN WASH — Exclusive Footage Offered to NBC “Today” Show to Profile High Flow Experiment
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March 3, 2008 GROWING NO CONFIDENCE CHORUS CONFRONTS EPA HEAD — Scientist Unions Pledge to Secede from Cooperative Forum, Citing Rising Distrust
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January 28, 2008 FLORIDA CLEAN WATER WHISTLEBLOWER LAWSUIT FILED — Ousted Lab Manager Cites Corruption by Top State Officials and Massive Data Loss
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January 24, 2008 EPA SCIENTISTS CONDEMN AGENCY’S GREENHOUSE GAS WAIVER DENIAL — EPA Staff Decry Hypocrisy of Johnson’s Pledges of Scientific Rigor and Openness
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December 27, 2007 EPA TO SURRENDER ALL DOCUMENTS ON CALIFORNIA WAIVER DECISION — Congress to Determine Whether Johnson Ignored His Legal and Technical Staff
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September 27, 2007 WHITE HOUSE DECLARES SCIENCE PRIORITIES FOR FY 2009 — Engineering over Environment, Applied over Basic, Corporate over Public
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August 16, 2007 RICHARDSON IS ONLY CANDIDATE TO PLEDGE OPEN GOVERNMENT — Huckabee Says No to Pledge but Other Candidates Are Still Thinking
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August 15, 2007 EPA GROWING MORE DEPENDENT ON CORPORATE RESEARCH PACTS — Corporate Research Needs Met with Tax Dollars Outside of Congressional Review
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July 30, 2007 CONGRESS TO FINALLY PROBE MASSIVE 2002 KLAMATH FISH KILL — Water Levels Halved by Cheney and Political Appointees over Scientists’ Objections
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July 2, 2007 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ASKED TO PLEDGE OPEN GOVERNMENT — Will Next President Stop Scientific Manipulation and Whistleblower Retaliation?
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May 9, 2007 LEGACY OF SCIENTIFIC FRAUD HONED BY BUSH ADMINISTRATION — Julie MacDonald Scandal Symptomatic of Broad Pattern of Mendacity
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April 3, 2007 CLIMATE AND OCEAN SCIENTISTS PUT UNDER NEW SPEECH RESTRAINTS — Any Scientific Statements “of Official Interest” Must be Pre-Approved
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January 24, 2007 9TH CIRCUIT FINDS ATTEMPT TO CLOSE FISH PASSAGE CENTER ILLEGAL — Bonneville Power Ordered to Keep Independent Monitor on Columbia-Snake Rivers
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August 24, 2006 EPA IS FLYING BLIND, MULTIPLE STUDIES CONCLUDE — Breakdowns in Information Quality and Scientific Integrity Hamstring Agency
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May 25, 2006 EPA SCIENTISTS PROTEST PENDING PESTICIDE APPROVALS — Unacceptable Risk to Children and Political Pressure on Scientists Decried
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March 18, 2006 APPEALS COURT EXTENDS FISH PASSAGE CENTER CONTRACT — Eleventh Hour Order Keeps Fish Experts on Job; Objective Science to Continue
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March 16, 2006 ATTEMPT TO AXE FISH PASSAGE CENTER IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL — Lawsuit Says Idaho Senator Guilty of Witness Intimidation
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February 15, 2006 EPA CONTINUES TO SCREEN ALL INTERVIEWS WITH SCIENTISTS — EPA Will Not Match “Open Science” Policies Adopted at NASA and NOAA
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February 2, 2006 STATE PAYS SCIENTIST $325,000 TO RESIGN — Scotchgard Whistleblower Agrees to Drop Free Speech Lawsuit
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January 23, 2006 LEGAL ACTION TO SAVE FISH PASSAGE CENTER — Effort to Keep Fish Experts on Job, Despite Maneuver to Zero-Out Budget
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October 19, 2005 INTERIOR BIOLOGISTS TOLD TO FUNDRAISE — Long-Term Eco-Science at Risk for Lack of Sponsors, Say Biologists in Survey
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October 6, 2005 EPA BECOMING ARM OF CORPORATE R & D — Bush Nominee to Head EPA Research Program Opposed
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October 5, 2005 CHEMICAL INDUSTRY IS NOW EPA’S MAIN RESEARCH PARTNER — Research Joint Ventures Focus on Corporate Needs Rather Than Public Health
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August 1, 2005 EPA SCIENTISTS CRITICAL OF LEADERSHIP — Agency Survey Shows Declining Trust and Deteriorating Communication
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July 20, 2005 “DISINFORMATION SYNDROME” AFFLICTS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT — Officials Routinely Rewarded for Lying and Punished for Telling the Truth
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July 11, 2005 SURVEY CREATES CONTROVERSY INSIDE NOAA FISHERIES SERVICE — Director Hogarth Regards Survey Results as Personal Attack
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June 28, 2005 POLITICAL APPOINTEES POLLUTE WATERS AT OCEAN AGENCY — Survey Shows Special Interest Influence and Altered Scientific Findings
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May 24, 2005 BIOLOGISTS ORDERED TO IGNORE GENETICS OF ENDANGERED SPECIES — New Fish & Wildlife Service Edict Sparks Internal Protests Over Censoring Science
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May 16, 2005 “SCOTCHGARD” WHISTLEBLOWER FILES FEDERAL COMPLAINT — Minnesota Scientist Cites Threats By Ex-3M Executive Heading Pollution Agency
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April 22, 2005 “FEE-FOR-SCIENCE” PLAN DROPPED BY INTERIOR — Fundraising Quotas for Scientists Abruptly Axed After Media Inquiries
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April 20, 2005 FEDERAL SCIENTISTS TOLD TO RAISE RESEARCH FUNDING — Each Must Generate $110,000 a Year to Avoid Bad Performance Rating
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March 31, 2005 EPA REFUSES TO RELEASE RESULTS OF SCIENTIST SURVEYS — Group Sues to Force Disclosure of Polls of Agency Scientists
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February 22, 2005 U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE MAY OUTSOURCE BIOLOGICAL STAFF — Director Appeals to Interior to Stop the Contractor Bidding for Hundreds of Jobs
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February 9, 2005 POLITICS TRUMPS SCIENCE AT U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE — Survey Reveals Inappropriate Orders to Alter Scientific Findings, Decisions
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February 7, 2005 SCIENTISTS ORDERED NOT TO COMPLETE SURVEY — Banned Survey Results to be Released Wednesday
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December 16, 2004 FDA SCIENTISTS ISSUED EARLY WARNINGS ON DRUG APPROVALS — Staff Survey Echoes Safety Concerns Raised by Dr. Graham in Senate Testimony
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October 6, 2004 NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE RIPS CORPS UPPER MISSISSIPPI PLAN — Third NAS Report Is Scalding -- Most Critical
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August 31, 2004 WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIM REVIVED IN FISH KILL POLLUTION CASE — Unanimous Court of Appeal Panel Sends Case to Trial
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May 19, 2004 WHISTLEBLOWER LEAVES NATIONAL FISHERIES SERVICE — Biologist Cites Misuse of Science
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April 13, 2004 FISH & WILDLIFE DIRECTOR OVERRULES HIS OWN SCIENTIFIC PANEL — Allows Continued Hunting of Rare Trumpeter Swans
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December 10, 2003 STAFF SAY EPA BEING POLITICIZED AS NEVER BEFORE — Survey Cites Lack of Candor, Fear of Retaliation
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September 17, 2003 FOREST SERVICE WHISTLEBLOWER WINS NATIONAL AWARD — Agency Suppresses Records
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June 23, 2003 FOREST SERVICE ADMITS WHISTLEBLOWER RESEARCH — Concedes That Half of Forests Will Never Be Restored
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June 16, 2003 FOREST SERVICE STIFLED ECOLOGICAL HISTORY — Ignores Own Ecological Records
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May 28, 2003 TRUMPETER SWAN DATA UNDER FIRE FWS — Finding Relied on Invented and Distorted Studies
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December 16, 2002 GROUPS DENOUNCE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TO DISCOUNT SWAN SURVEY RESULTS — Ongoing Legal Challenge
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October 28, 2002 KLAMATH RIVER WATER LEVELS SET UNDER POLITICAL PRESSURE — Congressional Leaders Call for Hearings, Whistleblower Protection
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October 19, 2001 SECRETARY NORTON FALSIFIED ARCTIC REFUGE DATA — Misled Congress on Environmental Effects of ANWR Drilling
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August 7, 2001 FOREST RESEARCH SACRIFICED TO POLITICS, SAY USFS SCIENTISTS — Survey of Pacific Northwest Lab Paints Bleak Picture
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