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TOOLBOX: EPA Adds 6,300 Chemicals and 3,800 Facilities to Database [1]

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 [2]
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Chemicals [3]
Government [4]
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National (U.S.) [5]
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Public [6]
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Did Justice Dept. Prevent Abramoff from Appearing in Abramoff Film? [7]

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 [2]
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Forest Service Gags Employees, Belies Obama Openness Vow [8]

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 [2]
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Forests [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Government [4]
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National (U.S.) [5]
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Judge Backs Chevron's Grab for Documentary Out-takes in Ecuador Case [11]

A federal district judge in New York ordered film-maker Joe Berlinger to turn over more than 600 hours of raw footage from his documentary "Crude," about a lawsuit by natives in Ecuador charging Chevron with polluting the Amazon rainforest there.
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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Energy & Fuel [12]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
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International [15]
South America [16]
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Public [6]
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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 [2]
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Waste [18]
Government [4]
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National (U.S.) [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
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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 [21]
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Forests [9]
Water & Oceans [22]
Biodiversity [23]
Government [4]
Science [24]
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National (U.S.) [5]
Northwest (OR WA) [25]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [26]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
California [27]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [28]
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Feds Have Sent Nearly $650 Million to Private Forest Owners [29]

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 [21]
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Economy & Business [30]
Planning & Growth [31]
Forests [9]
Government [4]
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National (U.S.) [5]
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Air Pollution: EPA Proposes Tougher Industrial Boiler Regs [32]

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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Air [33]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [13]
Waste [18]
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National (U.S.) [5]
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Greenwashers, Beware: FTC Updating Its "Green Guides" [34]

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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Economy & Business [30]
Consumer [35]
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National (U.S.) [5]
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EPA Makes Water Polluters A Little Easier To Track [36]

A new Web tool summarizes by state the number of smaller dischargers whose actions have been reviewed, the number that had a serious violation of their permit, and the number against whom a state took enforcement action.
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TipSheet [21]
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Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [22]
Government [4]
Technology [37]
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