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Senate Passes Whistleblower Protection Bill; House Pending [1]

The bill (S 372) would beef up the weakened protections for federal whistleblowers against retaliation for revealing fraud, waste, and abuse.
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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [3]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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SLAPP Win: Court Awards Legal Fees to Filmmaker in Dole Case [5]

The makers of "Bananas!," which claimed that Dole's use of pesticides had caused harm to farm workers in Nicaragua, were awarded $200,000 in court costs and attorney fees.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [6]
Agriculture [7]
Activism [8]
Region:
South America [9]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Groups Challenge Canada's Secrecy on Breeding Proposal for GM Salmon [10]

A coalition of some 60 environmental, fisheries, and consumer groups want to know whether the Canadian government is undertaking a risk assessment before allowing AquaBounty's genetically engineered eggs to be grown on Prince Edward Island.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Technology [13]
Biodiversity [14]
Region:
Canada [15]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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High Court Mulls Public's Right To Know of Threats to Its Safety [16]

In the case of Milner v. Navy, a Puget Sound resident and activist sought information that would identify the locations and potential blast ranges of explosive ordnance stored at Washington’s Naval Magazine Indian Island.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population [17]
Military [18]
Government [3]
Disasters [19]
Activism [8]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Court OKs USDA Secrecy on Wolf Killings of Livestock [20]

The environmental groups' request for GPS information about where the introduced, protected Mexican grays had killed livestock was denied on grounds that data collected by Wildlife Service personnel visiting private ranch property is exempt from FOIA requests.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [11]
Government [3]
Biodiversity [14]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Earmark Database Now Covers Fiscal 2011 [21]

The downloadable, Zipped Excel spreadsheet, produced by Taxpayers for Common Sense, WashingtonWatch.com, and Taxpayers Against Earmarks, contains 39,294 requested earmarks, worth $130 billion.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [3]
Environmental Politics [22]
Visibility:
Public [4]
- Read more about Earmark Database Now Covers Fiscal 2011 [21]
Cancun Roundup: A Modest Deal's a Deal (Updated) [23]

"Negotiators from about 190 countries reached a modest set of agreements early Saturday in Cancun on how to tackle global warming but punted some of the most controversial questions for a later date." Here's a roundup of the news, analysis, and reaction from some major international news organizations.
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [24]
Region:
International [25]
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Public [4]
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Election and Oil and Gas Drilling May Shape Sage-Grouse Story [26]

The timing of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to propose listing of the greater sage-grouse as a threatened or endangered species is coinciding with the presidential election and the rapid expansion of the influential oil and gas industry.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [14]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Wildlife [11]
Visibility:
Public [4]
- Read more about Election and Oil and Gas Drilling May Shape Sage-Grouse Story [26]
Evidence Showing Threat Posed by Medusahead Grows [29]

This invasive grass that already has a grip on about 2 million acres in the West makes the rangeland it invades virtually worthless for grazing, harms many animals that contact it or try to eat it, increases wildfire risk, and creates monocultures that have very low biodiversity and crowd out numerous native plant and animal species.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [30]
Economy & Business [31]
Biodiversity [14]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Feds Document Core Areas for Decimated Sage-Grouse [32]

The map and report on known greater sage grouse high-density breeding populations is a starting point that can be refined with the input of state fish and wildlife agencies. But you can use it right away as you cover various land use and environmental issues.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [11]
Science [33]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Biodiversity [14]
Region:
Canada [15]
Northwest (OR WA) [34]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [35]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [36]
California [37]
Visibility:
Public [4]
- Read more about Feds Document Core Areas for Decimated Sage-Grouse [32]

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