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Rockefeller Introduces Bill To Outlaw Bayer Chem-Secrecy Ruse [1]

Rockefeller's bill keeps FOIA exemptions for real security information, but forbids using the "sensitive security information" stamp.
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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Chemicals [3]
Disasters [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
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National (U.S.) [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [7]
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Bills Seek Disclosure of "Fracking" Chemicals That May Threaten Drinking Wells [9]

Proposed legislation would repeal a provision allowing secrecy over chemicals injected underground during high-tech gas drilling — such as benzene and toluene, which are known to be toxic.
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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Chemicals [3]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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EPA Relents, Releases List of 44 High-Hazard Coal-Ash Ponds [12]

FOIA requests and Congressional pressure got the Obama administration to reverse its decision to withhold key information about dangers to communities from coal-ash ponds operated by electric utilities.
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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Chemicals [3]
Disasters [4]
Energy & Fuel [10]
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North American Toxics Data Released [13]

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation, which is a joint effort of Canada, the US, and Mexico, released on June 10, 2009, its annual report tracking and comparing toxic emissions.
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TipSheet [14]
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Climate Change [15]
Air [16]
Chemicals [3]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Pollution [17]
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Canada [18]
National (U.S.) [6]
Mexico [19]
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Public [8]
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EPA To Announce Proposed NO2 Standard [20]

After several years of preparatory work, EPA is expected to announce by June 26, 2009, its proposed primary standard for one of the six "criteria" air pollutants, nitrogen dioxide.
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TipSheet [14]
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Air [16]
Chemicals [3]
Pollution [17]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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Public [8]
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Two Agencies Hide Neglect of Coal-Dam Safety with Secrecy [21]

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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Energy & Fuel [10]
Government [22]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
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Limited Evidence Raises Red Flags About Synthetic Turf [24]

Users of athletic fields, parks, and playgrounds with artificial turf may face risks from dozens of potentially harmful synthetic chemicals in the ground-up recycled tires used to make it.
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Scientists Still Tracking Source Of 'Teflon Chemical' [26]

By CHERYL HOGUE

The so-called Teflon chemical continues to make headlines. This synthetic compound, known as PFOA (short for perfluorooctanoic acid) or C8, is found in the blood of most people around the world, including you and your audience. But just where this chemical is coming from remains an open question.
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Chemicals [3]
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"Crime Scene Cleanup" in Kelly AFB Toxics Case [27]

New evidence indicates the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry fails to protect communities from dangers such as the now-disappearing plumes of toxic groundwater carrying cancer-causing chemicals far beyond the Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio, TX.
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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Chemicals [3]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [11]
Military [28]
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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
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FDA Mulls Putting Public's Health Above Companies' Trade Secrets [30]

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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Health [31]
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