October 13, 2008 INTERIOR READIES MOUNTAIN BIKE EXPANSION IN NATIONAL PARKS — Lame Duck Rule Would Clear Way for Mountain Bike Trails in Park Backcountry
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October 9, 2008 CORPS BIOLOGIST FACES 30-DAY SUSPENSION FOR KAYAKING L.A. RIVER — Off-Duty Challenge to Ruling River Was Not Navigable “Undermined Authority”
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October 6, 2008 BAY STATE SELECTMEN SUBJECT OF COMPLAINT AND FEDERAL LAWSUIT — Purge of Conservation Commission Fuels Development Free-for-All in Rehoboth
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October 1, 2008 EPA DROPS PLAN FOR PESTICIDE ENDORSEMENTS AND CAUSE MARKETING — Loophole Left for Case-by-Case Okays of Label Pesticide Pitches, Plugs and Logos
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September 29, 2008 SHUTTERED EPA LIBRARIES OPEN DOORS TOMORROW AFTER TWO YEARS — EPA Headquarters and Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City Regional Libraries Re-Open
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September 26, 2008 NEW TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST PROPOSAL LACKS BALANCE, QUIET RECREATION SHORTCHANGED — Hikers, campers, anglers and other forest visitors worry that new Forest Service proposal would lead to more noise, pollution and safety risks from dirt bikes and off-road vehicles
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September 23, 2008 NEW JERSEY WILL MISS FIRST GREENHOUSE GAS ALLOWANCES AUCTION — Corzine Global Warming Program behind Schedule, Blowing Second Major Deadline
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September 22, 2008 EPA DELAYS EXPERIMENTS EXPOSING CHILDREN TO CHEMICALS — Studies Modeled on Infamous CHEERS Underline Enduring Ethical Uncertainties
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September 18, 2008 BUSH APPOINTEE BLOCKED FINE OF CONGRESSMAN IN FOREST FIRE — Rep. Brown Notice Intercepted at Post Office on Orders of USDA Undersecretary
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September 18, 2008 MORE CELL TOWERS, WI-FI AND WEB-CAMS COMING TO YELLOWSTONE — New Plan Extends Large Electronic Footprint across Yellowstone’s Iconic Sites
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September 18, 2008 INDUSTRY LAWYERS DIRECTED BACA WILDLIFE REFUGE DRILLING STUDY — Concerns of Refuge Scientists Overridden by Interior, Justice Officials
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September 17, 2008 TRIBAL WILDLIFE REFUGE TAKEOVER DEEPLY FLAWED — National Bison Range Deal Sets Precedent for 75 Other National Parks and Refuges
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September 16, 2008 NEW JERSEY INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE PUNTS — “Month Late and a Dollar Short” Report Ignores Problems It Finds
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September 15, 2008 RACIAL HARASSMENT RIFE IN EPA ENFORCEMENT OFFICE — “Management Mafia” Condones Slurs and Adverse Acts While Resisting Remedies
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September 11, 2008 INTERIOR ETHICS SCANDALS INVOLVE MORE THAN “A FEW” — Widespread Industry Penetration of Interior Tatters Kempthorne Ethics Vows
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September 8, 2008 FEDS PROCEED QUICKLY ON STALLED NEW JERSEY TOXIC CLEAN-UPS — EPA Remediation Plan for Brick Township Landfill Ready for Public Review
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September 5, 2008 SPRAWL IS STEADILY POISONING MORE NEW JERSEY LAKES AND STREAMS — Most Waters Unfit for Direct Human Contact; Statewide Fish Health Advisories
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September 2, 2008 BLM WHISTLEBLOWER WINS APPEAL OVER TOXIC NEVADA MINE — Labor Department Confirms Retaliatory Firing in Violation of Anti-Pollution Laws
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August 28, 2008 WIDESPREAD CONTAMINATION FOUND IN NEW JERSEY DRINKING WATER — Survey of Wells Is Far From Well; State Does Not Follow-Up on Pollutants
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August 20, 2008 EPA ELBOWS CORPS ASIDE TO PROTECT WESTERN RIVERS — L.A. and Santa Cruz Rivers Will Benefit from Clean Water Act Safeguards
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August 19, 2008 PARK SERVICE WAVES WHITE FLAG ON LITTLE BIGHORN VISITOR CENTER — Lawsuit Halted Plan to Build a Theater at Base of “Last Stand Hill”
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August 18, 2008 RECLAMATION JETTISONING ENVIRONMENTAL FUNCTIONS — Lame Duck Reorganization Cutting Green Jobs to Promote Outsourcing
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August 14, 2008 STRING OF EPA LEGAL LOSSES ON EVERGLADES NO FLUKE — Latest Stinging Court Ruling Cites EPA Regional Office Clean Water Abdication
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August 13, 2008 REVOLVING DOOR WOES MOUNT AT FEDERAL MINERALS AGENCY — Following Guilty Plea MMS Director Warns Workers to Expect More Shoes to Drop
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August 12, 2008 CHENEY AIDE FINALLY LEAVING INTERIOR DEPARTMENT — Hoffman Tenure Marked by Failed Park Policy Rewrite and Reversals of Scientists
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August 11, 2008 EPA LIBRARY RESTORATION PACT FINALIZED — Agency Settles Unfair labor Complaint on Librarian Services, Collections and Space
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August 7, 2008 OCEAN FISHERIES PROTECTIONS TO BE WEAKENED — Bush Plan Would Give Industry Greater Power over Fishery Management Decisions
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August 5, 2008 CLIMATE STAFF URGE EPA TO COME CLEAN BEFORE CONGRESS — “Professional Staff at EPA Has Nothing to Hide” Says Joint Letter to Johnson
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July 31, 2008 LAWSUIT TO BLOCK THEATER AT LITTLE BIGHORN’S LAST STAND HILL — Retired Park Historians and Superintendents Say Structure Will Obscure Battlefield
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July 29, 2008 NAVY SUED OVER PUGET SOUND DETONATIONS — Underwater Demolition Program a Threat to Marine Life
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July 28, 2008 EPA STAFF ORDERED TO STONEWALL INVESTIGATORS AND MEDIA — Employees Told Not to Answer Questions or “Make Any Statements”
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July 28, 2008 PRISON STAFF AND INMATES EXPOSED IN COMPUTER RECYCLING PLANT — No Anti-Contamination Safeguards in Place for Years at Federal Penitentiary in Ohio
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July 24, 2008 PARK SERVICE CLEARED IN POINT REYES OYSTER OPERATION COMPLAINT — Environmental Effects of Industrial Shellfish Operations Remain Murky
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July 16, 2008 SUIT TO UNCOVER HUMAN HAZARDS OF FEDERAL WILDLIFE ERADICATION — Secret Agency Review of Poisonings, Crashes, Explosions and Terror Risks
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July 10, 2008 NEW JERSEY TO SET CARBON CAPS ABOVE CURRENT EMISSION LEVELS — Loopholes, Offsets and Economic Limits Sap Strength from Global Warming Plan
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July 10, 2008 MAINE SEEKS PRE-APPROVAL FOR WETLANDS DESTRUCTION — Maine DOT “Umbrella Mitigation Bank” Tries to Exploit Weakened Federal Policies
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July 10, 2008 FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE HIDING INFLUENCE OF REFUGE DRILLER — Federal Court Asked to Force Government to Release Records
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July 9, 2008 WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY…AND HE IS US — Bush Sporting Council Identifies Administration Policies as Highest Hunting Hurdles
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July 8, 2008 U.S. SUGAR BUYOUT MAY NOT HELP THE EVERGLADES — Corps Rejected Concept a Decade Ago Due to Insurmountable Hydrological Barriers
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July 7, 2008 ARMY KNEW ALASKA BASE FAMILY HOUSING SITE WAS TOXIC — Audit Found Civil and Criminal Liability at Taku Gardens But No Action Taken
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July 3, 2008 FEDERAL CASH BRINGS REWARD FOR INFORMATION ON ILLEGAL WOLF KILLINGS TO $50,000 —
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July 2, 2008 NEW JERSEY MISSES FIRST GLOBAL WARMING TARGET — Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan Due This Week Delayed Until Fall or Later
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June 30, 2008 SUPREME COURT DECISION SCRAMBLES NATIONAL PARK FIREARM PLAN — Many State Laws Will Be Subject to Legal Challenge and Uncertainty
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June 26, 2008 POACHING IN NATIONAL PARKS WILL RISE UNDER OPEN FIREARMS PLAN — Rules Will Be Ensnared in Lawsuits for Failure to Review Environmental Impacts
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June 23, 2008 FEDERAL WILDLIFE REPORT CENSORED — Highly Redacted Inspector General Report Posted on Official Website
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June 19, 2008 EPA REPORT BLASTS NEW JERSEY TOXIC CLEAN-UPS — State Failures to Enforce Law Lead to Worst Delays in the Country
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June 18, 2008 NEW JERSEY EXEMPTS FLOOD OF PROJECTS FROM FLOOD HAZARD RULES — DEP Confirms Flood Prevention and Stream Buffer Protection Loopholes
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June 17, 2008 MOUNTAIN BIKE GROUP WANTS ACCESS TO PARK BACKCOUNTRY TRAILS — NPS Director Appears This Week at International Mountain Biking Convention
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June 16, 2008 EPA LIBRARY ON EFFECTS OF NEW CHEMICALS WILL REMAIN CLOSED — Four Key Committee Chairs Ask GAO to Review EPA Library “Restoration” Plans
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June 16, 2008 FLORIDA ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT CONTINUES DOWNWARD SLIDE — Municipalities Now Account for Half of All Major Pollution Violations
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June 12, 2008 ARMY’S $100 MILLION HOUSING FROM HELL: ALASKA’S TAKU GARDENS — Responsibility Evaded for Uninhabitable Base Family Housing atop Weapons Dump
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June 11, 2008 INTERIOR STIFLES GRAND CANYON PARK CALL FOR MORE RIVER SURGES — Colorado River to Be Managed for Maximum Power Generation Not Wildlife Benefit
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June 10, 2008 ENCAP DEBACLE LOOMS OVER LATEST NEW JERSEY WATER FUND PLAN — Impending Legislative Approval Fails to Address Root Causes of Smoldering Scandal
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June 10, 2008 MASSACHUSETTS RECHARGE PLAN PUTS DRINKING WATER AT RISK — Industrial Polluters Escape Monitoring, Enforcement and Ongoing Safeguards
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June 9, 2008 EPA MISDEEDS ON TRIAL IN OMBUDSMAN WHISTLEBLOWER HEARING — Witnesses Detail 9/11 Contamination, Toxic Fertilizer and Litany of Other Failings
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June 5, 2008 “GRANDFATHER” STAMPEDE IN DELAYED NEW JERSEY STREAM RULES — Statewide Clean Water Protections Honeycombed with Special Interest Exceptions
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June 4, 2008 OFF-ROAD VEHICLE ROUTE DESIGNATIONS GOING BADLY OFF TRACK — U.S. Senate Hearing Grasping for Solutions to Rising Toll of ORVs on Public Lands
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June 4, 2008 THE CONGRESSMAN AND THE FOREST FIRE: A TALE OF STRING PULLING — Rep. Henry Brown Evades Forest Service Assessment for 4 Years, Penalty Waived
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June 2, 2008 EPA CITES USDA FOR WILDLIFE POISON VIOLATIONS — Wildlife Services’ Sodium Cyanide Device Killed Dog and Sickened Hunter
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May 27, 2008 CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS TRUMP NEW JERSEY CLEAN WATERS — Loophole-Riddled Stream Protection Plan: One Step Forward, Three Steps Backward
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May 23, 2008 LAST STAND FOR THE MOJAVE CROSS? — Supreme Court Only Option to Stay Removal of Giant Cross after 9th Circuit Ruling
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May 22, 2008 AMERICA’S TEN MOST IMPERILED WILDLIFE REFUGES — Threatened by Oil Drilling, Mining, Roads, ORV Use and, Above All – Politics
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May 21, 2008 CLOSED EPA LIBRARIES TO RETURN IN LAVATORY-SIZED SPACES — Political Appointee Asserts Control over All Libraries, Repeals 30-Year-Old Manual
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May 20, 2008 PROBE CALLED FOR IN NEW JERSEY TOXIC HIGH SCHOOL FIASCO — Inspector General Asked Why “Kiddie Kollege” Law Failed Clifton High School
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May 20, 2008 SHELL’S REVOLVING DOOR SWINGS U.S. ARCTIC DRILLING PROGRAM — Oil Company Grabs Top Agency Managers to Push What They Used to Regulate
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May 20, 2008 FIGHT TO RE-CLASSIFY PYGMY OWL AS ENDANGERED — Conservationists Take First Step to Re-establish Protections for the Pygmy Owl
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May 19, 2008 NEW BATTLE AT THE LITTLE BIGHORN — Planned “Temporary” Visitor Center in Center of Battlefield Draws Historians’ Ire
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May 15, 2008 U.S. TRUSTING OIL COMPANIES TO SAFEGUARD ARCTIC WILDLIFE — Industry Permit Plans Not Subjected to Required Peer-Review or Monitoring
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May 14, 2008 CAP & TRADE EMISSIONS CONTROL PLANS HAVE POOR TRACK RECORDS — Three Market-Based Air Pollution Programs This Decade Deemed Failures
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May 13, 2008 OFF-ROADERS BOOTED FROM ARIZONA MONUMENT DUE TO ABUSES — Section of Sonoran Desert National Monument Off-Limits to ORVs for Two-Years
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May 13, 2008 NEW JERSEY CHEMICAL PLANT PLAN HAS ONLY VOLUNTARY STANDARDS — Corzine Administration Caves on Governor’s Signature Environmental Issue
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May 12, 2008 BAY STATE WORSENS PRESCRIPTION DRUG IN DRINKING WATER PROBLEM — Siting Hospitals and Nursing Homes Next to Drinking Water Wells Is Unwise
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May 8, 2008 IS IT TIME FOR CONGRESS TO ABOLISH THE OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL? — Criminal Investigation of Special Counsel May Maroon Whistleblowers Seeking Help
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May 7, 2008 NEW JERSEY WILL NOT CLOSE PARKS OR LAY OFF ECO-WORKERS — Governor Orders DEP to Explore Other “Funding Options”
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May 7, 2008 NEW JERSEY JETTISONS GROUNDWATER POLLUTION STANDARDS — Drinking Water Supplies for Half the State Vulnerable to Toxic Contamination
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May 6, 2008 EPA EXPERTS CAST DOUBTS ON GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRADING — Verification and Enforcement Challenges May Cripple Global Warming Strategy
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April 29, 2008 ARIZONA GAME AGENCY SCAPEGOATS COUGARS FOR BIGHORN TRAVAILS — Agency Engages in “Biological McCarthyism” by Targeting Puma as Bighorn Gain
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April 29, 2008 NEW JERSEY DONS BLINDERS ON INDUSTRIAL SITE CLEAN-UP — State Retreats from Real Estate Transaction as Leverage for Toxic Remediation
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April 28, 2008 LAW PROFESSORS BLAST EPA LIBRARIES PLAN — EPA Asks Media and Others to Engage in “National Dialogue” on Information Needs
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April 28, 2008 NEW JERSEY MODEL FOR PRIVATIZED TOXIC CLEAN-UPS FAILS AUDITS — Serious Violations Found in More than Two-Thirds of Audited Massachusetts Sites
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April 23, 2008 WHY NATIVE YELLOWSTONE BISON STAY IN THE PARK — Elusive Mountain Bison Fear Humans but Face More Intrusion on Shrinking Range
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April 22, 2008 HELICOPTER CRASHES IN NEVADA COYOTE HUNT — Accidents Mount as National Review of Aerial Gunning Safety Underway
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April 21, 2008 NEW JERSEY PARKS LOSE MILLIONS IN UNCOLLECTED LEASE PAYMENTS — Park Closures Could Be Averted by Reaping Concessionaire and Easement Revenue
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April 21, 2008 ARIZONA’S KOFA REFUGE COUGARS GET ONE-YEAR REPRIEVE — Government Halts “Lethal Removal” of Refuge Puma after PEER Intervention
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April 17, 2008 BUSH ORDER TO PROMOTE HUNTING MAY SPARK NEW OFF-ROAD CURBS — Rangers Want Agencies to Help Hunting & Fishing by Ending Reckless Off-Roading
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April 17, 2008 CORZINE EMBRACES FAST TRACK LAW HE VOWED TO REPEAL — Quietly Appoints Fast Track “Czar” to Speed Development Permits
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April 14, 2008 NEW JERSEY TO PRIVATIZE POLLUTION REGULATION TO SAVE MONEY — Outsourcing Clean-Ups Is Recipe for More Toxic Disasters, Legislature Told
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April 14, 2008 EPA OPENS CHEMICAL RISK ASSESSMENT TO CORPORATE LOBBYING — New Process Marginalizes Government Scientists and Promotes Industry Influence
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April 10, 2008 U.S. OFFSHORE LEASING PREMISED ON FUTURE OF CHEAP OIL — Planning Assumes $30 a Barrel Oil to Minimize Potential Environmental Impacts
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April 9, 2008 AUDIT FINDS MAJOR HAZARDS IN INTERIOR DEPARTMENT — 28% of HQ Workers Cite Health Threat – Modernization “Pause” for Evaluation
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April 7, 2008 NEW JERSEY TO CONSULT INDUSTRY ON ECO-REWRITES IN SECRET — “Efficiency” Task Force Members Not Barred from Self-Dealing with DEP
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April 7, 2008 YELLOWSTONE FEEDING BISON MULTIPLIES NEXT YEAR’S PROBLEM — Park Baiting Buffalo to Corrals Violates Its Own “Do Not Feed Wildlife” Policy
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April 2, 2008 WILDERNESS WATER WAR IN ARIZONA REFUGE OVER BIGHORNS — Former Long-Time Kofa Wildlife Refuge Biologist Says His Agency Is All Wet
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April 1, 2008 U.S. FOREST SERVICE FIELDING FLEET OF DRONES — Law Enforcement Wants “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” Hovering Above Forests
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March 31, 2008 LEAD-SAFE REPAIR RULES FOR PRE-1978 BUILDINGS ENACTED — Long Overdue Step Closes Main Pathway to Childhood Lead Poisoning in the U.S.
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March 31, 2008 RHODE ISLAND YACHT CLUB FINED FOR POLLUTING LOBSTER NURSERY — $40,000 Fine on Five Counts Involving Illegal Discharges and False Certifications
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March 28, 2008 EPA TO RE-OPEN LIBRARIES BY FALL— BUT THEY WON’T BE THE SAME — Library Holdings Beyond “Core Reference” Require Political Approval
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March 27, 2008 LOUDOUN COUNTY STAFFER FIRED FOR FILING ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT — Warnings about Growth Dangers Suppression Sparks Free Speech Challenge
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March 26, 2008 EPA PUSHING PESTICIDE PROMOTIONS ON SAFETY LABELS — Environmental Agency Will be Entangled in Details of Marketing Campaigns
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March 25, 2008 ENVIRONMENTAL WHISTLEBLOWERS FARE POORLY UNDER BUSH — Chances of Success before Labor Department Plummets as Reversals Mount
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March 25, 2008 NEW JERSEY ASKS BUSINESS TO REWRITE ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS — Developers See Slow Economy as Lever to Weaken Anti-Pollution Permit Rules
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March 20, 2008 OIL DEAL FOR ALASKA WILDLIFE REFUGE ON FAST TRACK — Yukon Flats Land Exchange Tied to Oil Development but No Time for Appraisals
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March 19, 2008 EPA DROPPED BALL ON PHARMACEUTICALS IN DRINKING WATER — Decade Behind Statutory Deadlines to Screen Chemicals from Drinking Water
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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 17, 2008 EAST COAST’S LARGEST UNDEVELOPED ISLAND SLATED FOR CARGO PORT — Development Scheme for Maine’s Sears Island Resurfaces Again after 12 Years
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March 13, 2008 KEY WITNESS AT OFF-ROAD CONGRESSIONAL HEARING PULLED — Deputy Sheriff Testimony Blocked as Anxiety Rises in Off-Roading Groups
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March 12, 2008 CONGRESS TO TAKE FIRST LOOK AT OFF-ROAD RAVAGES ON PUBLIC LAND — Rangers to Testify Situation Out-of-Control as Anniversary of Utah Riot Nears
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March 8, 2008 DRIVE TO AXE FEDERAL PREDATOR ERADICATION PROGRAM — $100 Million Agriculture Program Slaughters 1.6 Million Wild Animals a Year
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March 6, 2008 CONSERVATION GROUPS CHALLENGE SHRINKING HABITAT FOR RARE PLANT ON ALGODONES DUNES —
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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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February 28, 2008 U.S. FOREST SERVICE DROPS MASSIVE RESTRUCTURING — Avoiding “Additional Disruption and Confusion” Will Keep Biologists in the Forests
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February 28, 2008 EPA LIBRARY CLOSURES HAMPERING AGENCY WORK, ARBITRATOR FINDS — EPA Guilty of Bad Faith and Unfair Labor Practice in Shutting Agency Libraries
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February 27, 2008 ONE-TIME FLUSH OF GRAND CANYON SPARKS HIGH-LEVEL FRACAS — Park Service Environmental Objections Quashed to Cement 5-Year Power Deal
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February 26, 2008 LEGAL PETITION TO SAVE NEVADA’S AMARGOSA TOAD — Off-Road Traffic and Habitat Destruction May Doom Toad without Intervention
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February 26, 2008 SETTLEMENT IN WHISTLEBLOWER CASE OF INTERIOR LAWYER — Robert McCarthy Testified Against Government in Tribal Trust Accounts Trial
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February 25, 2008 NEW JERSEY AIDE GOT TOO CLOSE TO DEVELOPERS — Ethics Complaint Filed Against Personal Advisor to DEP Commissioner
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February 25, 2008 U.S. PARK POLICE FORCE LEVELS CONTINUE FALLING — Lowest Level in 20 Years Fuels Frustrations and Exodus of Officers
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February 21, 2008 FOREST SERVICE OUTSOURCING PROGRAM A FIASCO, GAO FINDS — Scathing Report Rips Firefighting Erosion, Illusory Savings and Law Violations
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February 20, 2008 EPA KISSES OFF FLORIDA’S WETLANDS — Developer Sway in EPA Breeds Algal Blooms and Aquifer Contamination
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February 19, 2008 BOWHEAD WHALE IMPERILED BY ARCTIC DRILLING PLANS — Scientific Warnings on Oil Spills and Seismic Noise Disregarded to Speed Lease Sales
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February 14, 2008 TERESA CHAMBERS WINS APPEAL FOR PARK POLICE CHIEF JOB — Federal Court Holds Risk to Public Safety Is Protected by Whistleblower Act
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February 14, 2008 PEIRSON’S MILK-VETCH FURTHER SQUASHED BY FEDS — Shrinking Habitat Is Fragmented for Rare Plant
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February 13, 2008 ARCTIC OCEAN OIL REVIEWS SOFT-PEDALED EXXON VALDEZ — Oil Spill Dangers to Wildlife Minimized to Keep Lease Sales on Schedule
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February 12, 2008 NRA GUNNING FOR FIREARMS POLICIES IN NATIONAL PARKS — Legislative Drive to Allow Armed Park Visitors Rooted in Misinformation
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February 11, 2008 MERCURY IN NEW JERSEY DAY-CARE CENTER 3,000 TIMES STANDARD — State Wants to Demolish Old Thermometer Plant but No Further Testing of Kids
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February 6, 2008 NEW JERSEY CUTS DEEPLY INTO PROTECTED STREAM BUFFERS — Commissioner Revokes Her Year-Old Order, Leaving Buffers at Mercy of Politics
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February 4, 2008 LEAKED E-MAILS MAY SINK ARCTIC OFFSHORE LEASE SALES — Officials Scramble to Suppress Scientific Dissent over Bush Arctic Oil Initiative
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February 1, 2008 WHISTLEBLOWER UNDERGOES ORDEAL BY APPEAL — Third Trip to U.S. Fourth Circuit for Park Service Asbestos Hero
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January 31, 2008 LAWSUIT SETTLEMENT SECURES LEAD-SAFE HOUSING RULES — Bush Administration Commits to Standards for Repairs of Older Buildings
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January 30, 2008 BLM DROPS DESERT ROAD PLAN FOR FURNACE CREEK — California Desert Wilderness Protected from Ravages of Off-Road Vehicles
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January 29, 2008 WETLANDS WHISTLEBLOWERS IN WESTPORT PROCEED TO TRIAL — Legal Defense Fund Established for “Westport Four” Conservation Commissioners
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January 28, 2008 SECRET TOWN MEETINGS TO PAVE RATTLESNAKE HILL RULED ILLEGAL — Sharon Selectman Repeatedly Violated Open Meeting Law for Luxury Development
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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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January 24, 2008 INVASIVE SPECIES THREAT FROM ARCTIC OFFSHORE DRILLING IGNORED — Interior Purged Scientific Concerns about Introduction of Exotics in Arctic Waters
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January 24, 2008 JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNDERCUTS PARK SYSTEM FOR MOJAVE CROSS — Administration Argues Park Service Lacks Authority on Private Land within System
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January 22, 2008 LAWSUIT TO FORCE FLORIDA MANATEE OVERSIGHT RECORD RELEASE — Boating Speed Limits, Warning Signs and Swim-With Harassment at Issue
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January 21, 2008 INTERIOR STIFLES POLAR BEAR PROTECTIONS FROM ARCTIC DRILLING — Listing Delay Blocks Safeguards Urged by Scientists Contrary to Agency Testimony
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January 17, 2008 INTERIOR WITHHOLDING KEY DOCUMENTS ON ARCTIC DRILLING — Shell Plans for LNG and Tanker Traffic in Chukchi Sea Barred from Lease Review
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January 15, 2008 MISSISSIPPI BARGE TRAFFIC DOWN YET AGAIN IN 2007 — 18-Year Downward Trend Undercuts Congressional Plan to Build Bigger Locks
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January 14, 2008 FOREST SERVICE TO PULL ITS SCIENTISTS AND PLANNERS FROM FIELD — Massive Consolidation of NEPA Functions Will Take Thousands Out of Forests
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January 14, 2008 TERESA CHAMBERS RETURNS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT — Appointment as Riverdale Park Police Chief Will Not Alter Legal Case
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January 10, 2008 FEDERAL WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT RECORDS SOUGHT IN LAWSUIT — Corruption in U.S. Fish & Wildlife Headquarters Targeted in Test of New FOIA Law
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January 9, 2008 LIVESTOCK LOBBY PRESSURES TO RETAIN WILDLIFE POISONS — Two Front Battle to Block Legislative Ban and EPA Registration Revocation
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January 8, 2008 EPA FIGHTS LEGAL BID TO RE-OPEN WORLD TRADE CENTER PROBE — Whistleblower Seeks Restoration of Independent EPA Ombudsman
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January 7, 2008 OUTSOURCING OF FEDERAL NATURAL RESOURCE JOBS BLOCKED — Congress Kills Key Bush Management Agenda Plank for Park and Forest Services
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