November 4, 2009 INSPECTOR GENERAL TO PROBE EPA MARKETING OF COAL ASH — Agency Promotes Coal Waste “Beneficial Use” Without Completing Risk Assessment
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November 3, 2009 OSHA EXPERT FILES WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT — Workplace Injury and Illness Records So Poor That Progress Claims Are Illusory
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November 2, 2009 SECRET CALIFORNIA PARK GIVE-AWAY — Back Door Proposal to Transfer Lands from Tolowa Dunes State Park
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October 28, 2009 SUIT TO AIR INTERNAL EPA PROTESTS ON RADIATION EXPOSURE PLAN — Experts’ Objections to Radically Higher Radiation Exposure Levels Yet to Be Seen
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October 27, 2009 PEER ENDORSES BOLD POSITION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH — Groups Uniting Across Political Spectrum
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October 22, 2009 KATRINA CLEAN-UP RIFE WITH FRAUD AND MAYHEM — Documents Prompt Call for Review of Army Corps Contractor Supervision
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October 20, 2009 PROFESSOR STRIPPED OF NOAA FUNDING FOR ADVOCACY — University of Alaska President Upholds Grant Removal and Office Eviction
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October 19, 2009 CALIFORNIA TO SET FIRST HEX CHROMIUM DRINKING WATER LEVEL — Public Health Advocates Urge Adoption of Safe Standard Found by Science Agency
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October 15, 2009 USDA AND EPA PUSHING COAL ASH FOR GROWING CROPS — Toxic Contamination Risks Spread through Soil and Fertilizer Applications
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October 14, 2009 TELLICO RIVER WATERSHED CLOSED TO OFF-ROAD TRAFFIC — Conservationists Applaud U.S. Forest Service Action to Restore Water Quality
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October 12, 2009 NOAA RAISES RED FLAGS ON AGGRESSIVE OFFSHORE DRILLING PLAN — Exclusion Zones, Buffers and Oil Spill Protections Would Scale Back Lease Schedule
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October 8, 2009 NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY WRESTLES WITH TRANSPARENCY — Proposed PEER Openness Rules Being Studied for “Feasibility and Practicality”
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October 6, 2009 INDUSTRY PUSHES JERSEY GOVERNOR’S BUTTON ON WIND POWER PERMIT — String-Pulling to Keep Federal Stimulus Dollars by Shelving Eco-Study Requirements
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October 6, 2009 ARIZONA COUGAR SHOOTING PLAN MISGUIDED — Need For and Effects of Wiping Out Desert-Adapted Cougars Not Understood
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October 5, 2009 EPA PROMOTING COAL ASH FOR CONSUMER USE — Partnership with Industry Sidesteps Public and Worker Toxic Exposure Concerns
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October 1, 2009 DON’T EXPECT NEW MARINE SANCTUARIES UNDER OBAMA — NOAA Chief Says No Plans to Even Begin Considering New Ocean Reserves
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September 30, 2009 THE LAST INDIAN TRADER RUINED BY PARK SERVICE INCOMPETENCE — Lawsuit Filed to Unearth Suppressed IG Report into Agency Misconduct
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September 30, 2009 MOJAVE OFF-ROAD PLAN STRUCK DOWN IN FEDERAL COURT — BLM Told to Redesign Bush-Era ORV Plan for Mojave Desert Federal Lands
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September 29, 2009 INDUSTRY MOVES TO TAKE OVER JERSEY ECO-SCIENCE BOARD — DEP Sued to Force Release of Lobbying Messages for Industry-Backed Scientists
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September 29, 2009 INSPECTOR GENERAL SWOOPS DOWN ON BORDER AGENCY — Commissioner Takes Leave as Agents Arrive to Scour Files and Computers
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September 24, 2009 BORDER AGENCY AXES TOP LAWYER FOR WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT — General Counsel Fired for Not Being “Collegial” in Reporting Waste and Abuse
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September 24, 2009 WORKPLACE EXPOSURES RISE AS OSHA HEALTH INSPECTIONS FALL — OSHA Drifts in Wrong Direction by Further Misallocating Scarce Resources
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September 23, 2009 STATE ORV PARK VIOLATING CALIFORNIA WATER QUALITY LAW —
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September 23, 2009 LAKE OKEECHOBEE POLLUTION LEVELS SPIKE OUT OF CONTROL — Everglades Restoration Imperiled by Imploding South Florida Water Quality
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September 21, 2009 OBAMA GOES TO UN WITH EMPTY CLIMATE BAG — New Video Frames Fundamental Weaknesses of Cap & Trade Approach
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September 17, 2009 WATER POLLUTION LAWSUIT AGAINST CALIFORNIA STATE ORV PARK — Creek Ruined by Off-Road Abuse in Carnegie Recreation Area
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September 17, 2009 BID TO SAVE VANISHING FLORIDA PANTHER HABITAT — Legal Petition Filed With Feds to Protect 3 Million Acres from Development
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September 16, 2009 TOXIC NEW JERSEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FINALLY WINS RELIEF — Vapor Intrusion Controls May End Three-Year Ordeal at Atlantic Highlands
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September 15, 2009 BIGHORNS SHUN DESERT WATER TANKS — Controversial Artificial Impoundments Failing Their Purpose
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September 15, 2009 CALIFORNIA FINDS CLOSING PARKS NOT SO EASY — Liabilities, Lawsuits and Losses Threaten to Swallow Savings from Park Shutdowns
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September 14, 2009 EPA PUNTS ON RISKS TO CHILDREN FROM PLAYGROUND TIRE CRUMB — Agency Admits It Did Not Perform Promised Scientific Studies of Health Dangers
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September 10, 2009 AMARGOSA TOAD LEAPS TOWARD ENDANGERED SPECIES STATUS — Fish & Wildlife Service Announces Review Leading to Endangered Species Listing
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September 3, 2009 U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SCIENTISTS GAIN RIGHT TO PUBLISH — Elimination of “Policy Review” for Technical Articles to Reduce Political Interference
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September 2, 2009 FLORIDA DROPS OUT OF CLIMATE CHANGE FIGHT — Gov. Crist Nixes Joining RGGI or Pursuing State Emission Curbs; Will Defer to Feds
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September 1, 2009 POLITICAL ARM TWISTING FOR MASSIVE DELAWARE BAY WIND FARM — New Jersey under Pressure to Lift Ban on Wind Turbines in Migratory Bird Flyway
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August 31, 2009 OBAMA STRIP-MINING PICK BAD NEWS FOR COAL COUNTRY — Industry-Friendly State Regulator Signals There Will Be No Crackdown on Abuses
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August 31, 2009 FEDS OKAY TOURISTS SWIMMING WITH MANATEES — Fish & Wildlife Service Rejects PEER Petition to End “Swim-With” Permits
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August 27, 2009 EPA AUDIT RIPS NEW JERSEY DEP PERFORMANCE — Corrective Actions Never Implemented for Toxic, Wetlands and Other Programs
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August 26, 2009 MISHANDLED ASBESTOS SPURS CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AT GRAND TETON — Public Health Imperiled by Park’s Illegal Asbestos Removal, Transport and Storage
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August 20, 2009 RESEARCH CONFIRMS ST.LAWRENCE CEMENT PLANT POLLUTES NEARBY CAMDEN WATERFRONT NEIGHBORHOOD —
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August 19, 2009 GUNNISON SAGE-GROUSE GETS ANOTHER CHANCE AT PROTECTION — Most Populations Declined Again in 2009
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August 17, 2009 BORDER AGENCY DENIES SEWAGE, FLOODING AND DAM BREAK DANGERS — Bush Holdovers Perpetuate Pattern of Abuse and Malfeasance without Oversight
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August 10, 2009 EPA TIMIDLY TIPTOES TOWARD TRANSPARENCY — Staff Ordered to Cooperate with Inspector General but Not Other Investigators
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August 10, 2009 OBSCURE BORDER AGENCY WORST IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT — Chronic Mismanagement Threatens Flooding and Sanitation Catastrophes
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August 5, 2009 DUPONT PRESSES NEW JERSEY TO WATER DOWN PFOA RISK ASSESSMENT — Industry Consultants Get Closed Door Access to State Drinking Water Institute
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August 3, 2009 FOREST SERVICE ORV PLAN NEAR GRAND CANYON HALTED — ORV Access for Hunter Removals of Carcasses Dealt Setback with Ruling
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August 3, 2009 NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERS LAUNCH ETHICS REFORMS — Latest Corruption Scandals Spark Calls for Transparency & Whistleblower Measures
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July 27, 2009 NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY AT HEART OF BRIBERY SCANDAL — New Rules Needed to Ban “Pay-to-Play” and Protect Staff from Strong-Arm Tactics
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July 22, 2009 MANATEES’ FRAGILE FATE MIRRORS NATIONAL WILDLIFE PERIL — Senate Confirmation Hearing Today for Fish & Wildlife Service Director
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July 21, 2009 NEW JERSEY ALTERS HEALTH STUDY UNDER INDUSTRY PRESSURE — Industry Allowed Private Meetings to Lobby for Changes in Camden Study
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July 20, 2009 NERVE GAS LEAK DETECTORS INOPERATIVE FOR YEARS — Army Report Confirms Blue Grass Chemical Weapons Depot Was “Flying Blind”
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July 16, 2009 REWARD OFFERED FOR OHV VANDALS WHO TRASHED MEADOW —
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July 15, 2009 MOVE TO END HARASSMENT OF FLORIDA MANATEES — Legal Filing to Outlaw Manatee “Swim-With” Dives by 100,000 Tourists Annually
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July 9, 2009 FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE IN FLORIDA: PORTRAIT OF A FAILED AGENCY — Obama Pick Piecemeals Florida Panther and Other Endangered Species to Extinction
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July 8, 2009 TEFLON COATS PUBLIC AGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE — Jackson Sought to Have New Jersey PFOA Study Pulled from Publication
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July 6, 2009 FUEL TAX SURPLUS COULD SAVE CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS — Funds Earmarked for Off-Road Recreation Which Generates Only 1/6th of Revenue
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July 1, 2009 FEDERAL WILDLIFE AGENT WHISTLEBLOWER REINSTATED FOR APPEAL — Judge Finds “Substantial Likelihood” Whistleblower Will Prevail in His Complaint
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June 25, 2009 ONE-THIRD OF WILDLIFE REFUGES USE GM CROPS IN SOUTHEAST — Genetically Modified Seeds Okayed by Obama Fish & Wildlife Service Director Pick Hamilton
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June 22, 2009 ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT FELL INTO DISUSE UNDER NOMINEE — Only One Jeopardy Opinion in Nearly 6,000 Consultations as Staff Told to Refrain
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June 18, 2009 AMERICA'S TEN MOST IMPERILED WILDLIFE REFUGES — Climate Change and Coping with Climate Change Challenge Nature Sanctuaries
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June 16, 2009 CHAMBERS WINS APPEAL AGAINST U.S. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT — Privacy Act Violation for Bush Officials Destroying Favorable Personnel Evaluation
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June 15, 2009 GRAND CANYON THREATENED BY OFF-ROAD VEHICLE PLAN — Groups Protest ORV Penetration into Habitat and Across Archaeological Sites
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June 15, 2009 POLITICAL MANIPULATION OF SCIENCE RIFE DURING NOMINEE’S TENURE — Fish & Wildlife Service Southeast Region Employees Saw Interference and Reprisal
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June 11, 2009 CRITICAL NEW TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM HAS GAPING HOLES — Nearly One-Third of Deep Ocean Stations Are “Dead” Including Tsunami Hot Spots
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June 10, 2009 FEDERAL AGENT SACKED FOR REPORTING ILLEGAL COUGAR KILLS — Upcoming Whistleblower Hearing to Air Corruption in Nevada U.S. Wildlife Services
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June 9, 2009 INTERIOR SUED TO OBTAIN OIL ROYALTY REVENUE DATA — Feds Claim Prices Oil Company Paid for Royalty-In-Kind Oil Are Trade Secrets
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June 8, 2009 PENNSYLVANIA HAZMAT RULES ROIL BOTH INDUSTRY AND WORKERS — DEP Employees Files Grievances over Higher Toxic Exposure with No Protection
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June 4, 2009 SAFETY OF SHREDDED TIRES IN PLAYGROUNDS UNDER QUESTION — EPA Endorsed Use without Analyzing Toxic Potential but Belated Studies in Limbo
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June 3, 2009 CRIST ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT INITIATIVE FIZZLES — Fewer Pollution Fines Assessed While More Uncollected in Across-the-Board Decline
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June 2, 2009 WESTPORT WETLANDS WHISTLEBLOWERS WIN — Settlement Affirms Conservation Commissioners’ Right to Act Free from Politics
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June 1, 2009 NEW JERSEY SLAPS GAG ORDER ON ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS — Embarrassing Chromium Study Prompts Management Review of Scientific Findings
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May 20, 2009 LAWSUIT TO FORCE EPA TO REVEAL ITS RESEARCH PLANS — Bush-Era “Transformation” of EPA Science Arm Rests on New “Business Model”
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May 14, 2009 TERESA CHAMBERS FINALLY TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS — Long Ordeal of “Honest Chief” Underscores Need to Reform Whistleblower Laws
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May 13, 2009 OLD FAITHFUL VANDALS CAUGHT ON WEBCAM — “Geyser Gazers” Call in Violation in Yellowstone’s First Cyber-Enforcement Case
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May 12, 2009 WHITE HOUSE GRAPPLES WITH HOW TO ENSURE SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY — New Whistleblower Protections and Other Rules Slated for President’s Desk by July
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May 11, 2009 HIGHWAY AGENCY BREAKING FEDERAL LAWS ON DELAWARE REFUGE — DelDOT Committing Criminal Wildlife Offenses in Refuge Road Construction
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May 7, 2009 COMMERCIAL AQUACULTURE IN WILDERNESS PUSHED BY KEY SENATOR — Point Reyes National Seashore Oyster Farm Dispute Opens Legal Can of Worms
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May 5, 2009 NAVY SEEKS TO CONTINUE ILLEGAL MARINE DETONATIONS — Shifting Much of Underwater Explosives Operations from Puget Sound to San Diego
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May 4, 2009 HIGH CHROMIUM DANGER KNOWN BY NEW JERSEY LEADERS SINCE 2007 — Lisa Jackson and DEP Brass Decided to Proceed As If New Data Did Not Exist
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May 1, 2009 NATIONAL PARKS SHOULD STICK TO THEIR GUNS ON LEAD AMMO BAN — Diverse Coalition Urges Secretary Salazar to Meet Goal of Going Lead-Free by 2010
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April 29, 2009 EPA RELEASES LIBBY CLEAN-UP REPORT — PEER Lawsuit Prompts Belated Disclosure of Major Unresolved Public Health Issues
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April 27, 2009 BOCA RATON WATER CONTAMINATION TRIGGERS HEALTH SANCTIONS — One Whistleblower Restored as Extensive Probe of City Utility Operations Expands
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April 24, 2009 REGIONAL WATER BOARD ORDERS CLEAN-UP OF RUBICON TRAIL — Iconic off-road trail has lost its way
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April 23, 2009 KOFA COUGARS GET VERY SHORT STAY OF EXECUTION — Arizona Game Agency to Shoot GPS-Collared Mountain Lions on National Refuge
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April 23, 2009 OBAMA TAPS BUSH APPOINTEE TO RUN SURFACE MINING AGENCY — Choice May Signal Administration Cave-In on Opposition to Mountain Top Removal
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April 22, 2009 CHROMIUM FAR DEADLIER THAN EARLIER ASSESSMENTS INDICATE — Scores of Capped New Jersey Contaminated Sites Will Have to Be Re-Evaluated
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April 21, 2009 SECRET EPA REPORT ON LIBBY CLEAN-UP SPARKS LAWSUIT — Early Test of Obama/Holder Doctrine on Freedom of Information Act Openness
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April 20, 2009 PARK SERVICE PROTESTS BIG SOLAR EXPANSION IN NEVADA DESERT — National Parks Will Suffer from Water Withdrawals, Pollution and Habitat Loss
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April 16, 2009 STATES STRENGTHEN WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION LAWS — States Moving Past Federal Government in Safeguarding Civil Servant Disclosures
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April 15, 2009 DEADLY DOMESTIC SHEEP DISEASE THREATENS ENDANGERED SIERRA NEVADA BIGHORN — Feds Threatened With Legal Action to Close Grazing Allotments, Remedy Endangered Species Act Violations
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April 14, 2009 PLIGHT OF WHISTLEBLOWERS SHOWS NO IMPROVEMENT — Federal Employees Face Blackballing and Career Derailment for Reporting Problems
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April 8, 2009 CONSTITUTIONAL CLASH OVER DEFUNCT LAND EXCHANGE — Major Religious Establishment Case Rooted in Mojave Cross Deal
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April 7, 2009 DEMOCRATS PRESSURE EPA TO GREEN-LIGHT PORK — Rep. Frank Says EPA Will Bar Anyone with a “Record of Hostility” to Pet Project
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April 3, 2009 MICHIGAN GIVE FEDS NOTICE OF SURRENDERING WETLANDS PROGRAM — U.S. EPA and Army Corps to Begin Take-Over of State Permits and Enforcement
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April 1, 2009 MAINE’S SEARS ISLAND PORT PLAN SLAMMED — Wetland Mitigation Bank Falls Flat as Gambit for Cargo Container Port
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March 31, 2009 OIL & GAS DRILLING LABELED MAJOR THREAT TO EASTERN FORESTS — U.S. Forest Service Flying Blind on Drilling Impacts Yet Still Issues More Permits
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March 26, 2009 NATIONAL PARK LEAD AMMO BAN IN DOUBT — NRA Goes Ballistic on Gun-Shy Obama Administration
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March 25, 2009 LAKE OKEECHOBEE FLOW CUTOFF LOOMS — Lee County Decries Drinking Water Woes and Caloosahatchee Salinity
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March 24, 2009 LAWSUIT ENDS GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS ON WILDLIFE REFUGE — Ruling on Delaware’s Prime Hook May Affect Farming on Scores of Other Refuges
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March 24, 2009 BOCA RATON TAP WATER VIOLATIONS TRIGGER HEALTH PROBE — Chronic Low Pressure Problems Risk Microbial Contamination and Boil Orders
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March 23, 2009 $100 MILLION STILL OWED FROM EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL — U.S. and Alaska Fail to Collect $92 Million Damage Claim Filed Back in 2006
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March 16, 2009 FORMER GOVERNOR MILLIKEN SPEAKS UP TO SAVE WETLANDS PROGRAM — Iconic Republican Says Repeal of Wetlands Law “Not in the Interests of Michigan”
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March 11, 2009 GAS DRILLING DIVIDES ANOTHER NATIONAL FOREST — Damage to Endangered Bat Caves and Toxic Pits Plague Monongahela NF
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March 10, 2009 MICHIGAN TORPEDOES ITS OWN GREAT LAKES RESTORATION PLAN — Small Savings from Wetlands Repeal Would Be Swamped by Higher Flood Damages
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March 5, 2009 AIR FORCE WIPING OUT RARE WILDLIFE OF GUAM — Rampant Poaching, Beach Paving and Human Intrusion Ruins Island Habitat
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March 3, 2009 MICHIGAN THREATENS TO FUMBLE OBAMA GREAT LAKES INITIATIVE — State Plan to Abandon Wetlands Protection Undercuts New Great Lakes Effort
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February 23, 2009 WHY THE OBAMA CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN WON’T WORK — Political Support for Cap & Trade Will Not Overcome Its Practical Shortcomings
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February 19, 2009 FOREST SERVICE AT SEA ON STATUS OF VAST MINERAL RIGHTS — Wilderness and Experimental Forests in 34 Eastern States Open to Drilling
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February 19, 2009 RIDERSHIP FOR STOUGHTON LINE FALLS AS COSTS RISE — Worst Eco-Alternative Rail Line Will Cost Massachusetts $800,000 per Commuter
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February 17, 2009 HIKING AND PARK GROUPS URGE WITHDRAWAL OF MOUNTAIN BIKE PLAN — New Mountain Bicycle Trails Will Drive Out Other Users and Aggravate Backlog
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February 12, 2009 HAWAII SEISMIC NETWORK STUCK BEHIND SCHEDULE — Promised Tsunami and Earthquake Monitoring System Less than Half Complete
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February 10, 2009 NOAA SEA GRANT SEEKS TO DE-FUND SCIENTIST FOR ADVOCACY — Protest on Oil Industry Bias in Sea Grant Seen to “Cause Problems Nationally”
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February 4, 2009 CALIFORNIA DESERT WINS NEW PROTECTION VIA FEINSTEIN AMENDMENT — Lion’s Share of CDCA Included in Landscape Conservation System by Omnibus Bill
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January 29, 2009 DOW DIOXIN DEAL FLYING UNDER EPA RADAR — Contamination Case in Closed-Door Negotiations for “Non-Regulatory” Resolution
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January 28, 2009 GRAND CANYON FLOW FIGHT BURSTS INTO THE OPEN — Early Test for Interior Secretary Salazar Pledges of Ethics and Scientific Integrity
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January 26, 2009 LISA JACKSON SHOULD FULFILL EPA CONFIRMATION PROMISES NOW — Concrete, Enforceable Policies Needed to Back Scientific and Legal Reform Pledges
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January 21, 2009 RADIATION EXPOSURE LIMITS WEAKENED IN DEPARTING BUSH MOVE — Huge Hikes in Allowable Radioactivity in Drinking Water, Air and Soil
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January 19, 2009 FEDS INTERVENE TO SET FLORIDA WATER QUALITY STANDARDS — Rising Percentage of State Rivers, Lakes and Estuaries Impaired by Excess Nutrients
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January 9, 2009 REPUBLICAN APPOINTEES REJECT CHAMBERS APPEAL — More Litigation in U.S. Park Police Case Unless Obama Administration Intervenes
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January 7, 2009 CLIMATE SCIENTISTS FREED FROM AGENCY GAG ORDER — Commerce Prior Review Policy Does Not Apply to National Weather Service Workers
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January 6, 2009 TEN QUESTIONS THE SENATE SHOULD ASK LISA JACKSON — Committee Urged to Scrutinize Jackson’s Actions and Decisions in New Jersey
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