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SO2 Final Rule Scheduled For June 2 [1]

Some counties in your region may no longer be in compliance and will need to take new pollution control measures.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Air [4]
Chemicals [5]
Pollution [6]
Government [7]
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National (U.S.) [8]
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Public [9]
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TOOLBOX: Senate Expenditures Now Online [10]

Expenditure data are not yet available for all Senators but you can search for the person you are interested in on the Center for Responsive Politics' campaign data site OpenSecrets.org.
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WatchDog TipSheet [11]
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Government [7]
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National (U.S.) [8]
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- Read more about TOOLBOX: Senate Expenditures Now Online [10]
TOOLBOX: EPA Adds 6,300 Chemicals and 3,800 Facilities to Database [12]

Find out more about potentially toxic chemicals in public commerce in the Envirofacts database, updated by EPA with previously unavailable information it collects under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
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WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [5]
Government [7]
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National (U.S.) [8]
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Public [9]
- Read more about TOOLBOX: EPA Adds 6,300 Chemicals and 3,800 Facilities to Database [12]
Did Justice Dept. Prevent Abramoff from Appearing in Abramoff Film? [13]

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed FOIA requests for information, alleging that the Justice Department refused to let the incarcerated super-lobbyist do on-camera interviews.
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WatchDog TipSheet [11]
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Government [7]
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National (U.S.) [8]
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Public [9]
- Read more about Did Justice Dept. Prevent Abramoff from Appearing in Abramoff Film? [13]
Forest Service Gags Employees, Belies Obama Openness Vow [14]

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility obtained and disclosed a USFS memo ordering its law enforcement personnel not to talk to reporters about anything without first getting clearance from its Washington director and press office.
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WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Forests [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Government [7]
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National (U.S.) [8]
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Public [9]
- Read more about Forest Service Gags Employees, Belies Obama Openness Vow [14]
Bush EPA Suppressed NM Waste Records To Sidestep FOIA [17]

EPA Region 6 officials deliberately stopped creating written records related to their oversight of a New Mexico waste facility in order to thwart Freedom of Information Act requests from a citizens' group, according to an EPA Inspector General's report.
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WatchDog TipSheet [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Waste [18]
Government [7]
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National (U.S.) [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
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Public [9]
- Read more about Bush EPA Suppressed NM Waste Records To Sidestep FOIA [17]
Russian Olives and Tamarisk Get A Little Federal Love [20]

A new report by the US Geological Survey, Bureau of Reclamation, US Forest Service, other federal agencies, and university experts says the water-hogging reputation of the two species has little merit, but found that effects on wildlife are mixed.
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TipSheet [2]
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Forests [15]
Water & Oceans [21]
Biodiversity [22]
Government [7]
Science [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Northwest (OR WA) [24]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [25]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
California [26]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [27]
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Feds Have Sent Nearly $650 Million to Private Forest Owners [28]

The USFS Forest Legacy Program has awarded a total of $72 million to 36 property owners in 33 states and territories to apply conservation easements to their land, with the goal of preventing development or other uses of the land that would reduce its forest value.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [29]
Planning & Growth [30]
Forests [15]
Government [7]
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National (U.S.) [8]
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Public [9]
- Read more about Feds Have Sent Nearly $650 Million to Private Forest Owners [28]
Air Pollution: EPA Proposes Tougher Industrial Boiler Regs [31]

The proposed air toxics standards cover emissions from three types of combustion sources and address emissions of mercury, cadmium, dioxin, furans, formaldehyde, hydrochloric acid, and other pollutants.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [4]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [6]
Waste [18]
Government [7]
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National (U.S.) [8]
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Public [9]
- Read more about Air Pollution: EPA Proposes Tougher Industrial Boiler Regs [31]
Greenwashers, Beware: FTC Updating Its "Green Guides" [32]

The 2010 update to the Federal Trade Commission's Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims is expected to feature new guidance for marketing carbon offsets and renewable energy certificates, green packaging, textiles, building products, and building.
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TipSheet [2]
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Economy & Business [29]
Consumer [33]
Government [7]
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National (U.S.) [8]
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- Read more about Greenwashers, Beware: FTC Updating Its "Green Guides" [32]

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