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Disclosure? BLM Fracking Rule Panned by Industry, Panned by Enviros [1]

The revised proposal still allows companies to claim trade secrecy on chemicals in fracking fluid — and to fulfill disclosure requirements on the remainder by submitting them to the controversial FracFocus database, run by the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and the Groundwater Protection Council.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Laws & Regulations [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Chemicals [5]
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Judge Rejects Industry Suit To Omit Styrenes from Carcinogens Report [7]

Styrene (used to make plastic packaging) was listed in June 2011 as "reasonably anticipated" to be cancer-causing in the biennial federal Report on Carcinogens. Industry not only challenged, but also mounted a political campaign, persuading a powerful House Appropriations subcommittee chairman to withhold spending for the report until NTP reconsidered the styrene listing.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Laws & Regulations [3]
Health [8]
Chemicals [5]
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Groups Oppose North Carolina "Ag-Gag" Bill [9]

NC's Senate is considering an industry-sponsored bill that would extend restrictions on undercover investigations beyond livestock operations to include other categories of industry. The state's Chamber of Commerce supports it, saying industries beyond agriculture want protection from the reporting of workplace abuses.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Laws & Regulations [3]
Agriculture [10]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [11]
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Public [6]
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Pennsylvania Gas Industry Keeps Secret Database on Pre-Drill Quality of Wells [12]

The fracking industry loves to argue there's no proof its gas-extraction methods cause pollution. But it works hard in Pennsylvania to keep secret any evidence that might prove the question — one way or the other. Existence of its database was reported by Marie Cusick of WITF in Harrisburg, via NPR's StateImpact Pennsylvania.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [13]
Pollution [14]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Economy & Business [15]
Chemicals [5]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [16]
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Public [6]
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AP Probe: Keeping Explosive Chemicals Secret May Not Make People Safer [17]

Aftershocks of the April 17, 2013, ammonium nitrate explosion in West, Texas, continue — including investigations by news organizations as well as state and federal agencies. A major multistate investigative project by the Associated Press could only get data for 28 of the 50 states, but within those states it found that more than 600,000 people live within a typical blast zone and more had family in schools and hospitals within one.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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People & Population [18]
Disasters [19]
Chemicals [5]
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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
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Public [6]
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"Cairns: Messengers in Stone" [21]

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BookShelf [22]
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Journalism & Media [23]
People & Population [18]
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Public [6]
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"Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam’s 'Lost World'" [24]

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BookShelf [22]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [25]
Journalism & Media [23]
People & Population [18]
Planning & Growth [26]
Wildlife [27]
Region:
Asia [28]
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Public [6]
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"Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall" [29]

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BookShelf [22]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [25]
Journalism & Media [23]
People & Population [18]
Planning & Growth [26]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [11]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
Mexico [30]
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Public [6]
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"Places: Habitats of a Human Lifetime" [31]

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People & Population [18]
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Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [32]
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"The Golden Shore: California’s Love Affair with the Sea" [33]

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BookShelf [22]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [23]
Water & Oceans [13]
Region:
California [34]
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Public [6]
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