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Is 3/4 of White House Credibility on Gulf Spill Impacts Now Gone? [1]

Obama administration officials are publicly refusing to disclose data backing up an August 4 report announcing that some three-fourths of the BP oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico was "gone.".
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EPA Gets TRI Data Out Quickly This Year [6]

The early release includes only about 80% of the total expected submissions. Updates should be available in August and September, and the agency will release its analysis later in 2010.
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EPA Offers Air, Water, Sediment, Waste Data from Gulf Oil Spill [8]

Reporters can find most of the environmental monitoring data EPA has collected on one webpage in a form that can be queried or downloaded.
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Air [9]
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Obama Signs 'Libel Tourism' Bill [13]

The new bill protects U.S. journalists and citizens against harsh overseas libel judgments.
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Appeals Court Nixes Permits for Free Speech in National Parks [16]

A federal appeals court has ruled that the National Park Service is violating the First Amendment with its current rules requiring permits for demonstrations, gatherings, and public "expressions of views" on National Park System lands.
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Natural Resources [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
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Deep-Sixing the Facts? — Congress Blinds, Hamstrings Oil Spill Commission [19]

Before leaving town for its August vacation, Congress stripped $12 million for the commission from an appropriations bill and denied that panel the subpoena power it needs to find out what happened or what should be done to prevent another spill.
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Fla. Scientists Say Obama Admin Tried To Squelch Oil Plume Findings [20]

St. Petersburg Times' Craig Pittman reports the scientists' announcement in May that research boats had discovered a 6-mile long underwater oil plume was greeted with shushing from the Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Enviros File FOIA Suit for Salazar Contacts with Oil Lobbyists [21]

The Center for Biological Diversity requested documents from the Department of the Interior on May 18, 2010, but received no response.
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Whistleblower Switches Sides, Spills Story on BP Press Blockade [23]

An ex-BP security contractor hired to shoo reporters off of public beaches claims he was fired by BP after he took pictures of equations showing how dispersants were being used in the Gulf.
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NOAA Muddies Access to Spill Damage Data [25]

A senior Washington correspondent for the Huffington Post reveals that NOAA has been giving BP all the raw data its research ships collect — but not releasing the data to the public
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