EPA Begins Restoring Toxics Inventory After Downgrading
Sixteen chemicals may be added to the TRI, after nearly a decade of erosion under the Bush administration.
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Massey Mine Disaster Raises Openness Issues
Several journalists have raised questions about why more was not known publicly about the safety defects that led to the deaths of 29 miners at Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine in April 2010.
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Supreme Court Tosses Overbroad Cruelty Video Law
SEJ and other journalism groups had urged the court to strike down the sweeping law that could criminalize ordinary journalistic investigations meant to expose and end animal cruelty.
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"Iconic Status Can't Spare Grand Canyon From Myriad Threats"
An in-depth look at the Grand Canyon ecosystem reveals an unprecedented convergence of threats.
Source: Greenwire, 04/21/2010
Senate GOPers Move to Bar NEPA Analysis of Climate Change Impacts
"Republican senators introduced legislation today that would block White House efforts to require federal agencies to consider climate change in environmental analyses of proposed projects."
Source: Greenwire, 04/21/2010
"Obama Admin Looks to Cast a Line With Anglers"
"The Obama administration is launching a significant new effort to reach out to marine recreational fishermen, an economically and politically powerful group that has previously felt shut out by the new administration."
Source: Greenwire, 04/21/2010
"Has Trust Leaked Away With the Tritium?"
"A panel of experts convened on Tuesday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to discuss how the agency should approach tritium leaks at reactors suggested that the biggest risk that nuclear operators faced was the erosion of public trust."
Source: NYTimes, 04/21/2010
Supreme Court Overturns Anti-Animal Cruelty Law in 1st Amendment Case
"The Supreme Court on Tuesday forcefully struck down a federal law aimed at banning depictions of dog fighting and other violence against animals, saying it violated constitutional guarantees of free speech and created a 'criminal prohibition of alarming breadth.'"
Source: Wash Post, 04/21/2010
"Fruit Growers Battle New Invasive Asian Fly"
"A tiny Asian fly that is new to North America is threatening much of the West Coast fruit industry and has been detected in Florida too, warn state and federal agricultural experts."
Source: ENS, 04/20/2010
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