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With 800k Facilities, EPA's ECHO Database Holds News for Your Town [1]

It's a convenient way to access inspection, violation, and enforcement information under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and hazardous waste laws. It's more visual than ever, and includes map interfaces and reports that help you tell your readers and viewers how pollution affects their locality.

Watchdog Says Obama Not Protecting Whistleblower Scientists [2]

New documents, released only after a lawsuit, to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility show the White House is telling agencies they can stick with existing practices when it comes to political interference with science — and do just about anything they want.

Pa. Radio Host Says Criticism of Shale Fracking Got Him Fired [3]

Robert Foltz, host of the "Let's Talk" show on WMBS in Uniontown for 10 years, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette he was fired just moments after a local municipal official said on his show that drilling for gas in the Marcellus shale formation had contaminated the local groundwater supply with bromine.

Plastic Bag Industry Tries To Silence Critics [4]

The New York Times' Felicity Barringer tells the story of Andy Keller, 38, who dresses up in bags as "Bag Monster" to promote his reusable "ChicoBag," invoking the ire of three plastic bag manufacturers in South Carolina.

EPA Outs 150 Chemicals Claiming Trade Secret Status Under TSCA [5]

The chemicals, the identities of which had been withheld up till now based on companies' "confidential business information" claims, are used in products like oil dispersants, air fresheners, non-stick and stain-resistant materials, fire-resistant materials, nonylphenol compounds, perfluorinated compounds, and lead.

"Quebec Doctors Urge PM To Support Chrysotile Asbestos Regulation" [6]

"On Monday in Geneva, representatives of the 143 countries belonging to United Nations-sponsored Rotterdam Convention, regulating hazardous chemicals, are to begin a meeting where chrysotile, the type of asbestos fibre mined in Quebec, will be on the top of the list of new products to be regulated."

Source: Montreal Gazette [7], 06/15/2011

"Bachmann: Hit EPA Regulations With 'Mother of All Repeal Bills'" [8]

"Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the newly minted White House contender, used Monday night’s GOP debate to call for clipping the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) wings."

Source: E2 Wire [9], 06/15/2011

Former Rep. Inglis to Launch Conservative Coalition to Address Climate [10]

"A former Republican congressman who is an advocate for action to address climate change plans to launch a new conservative coalition this fall made up of Republicans who, like him, believe that human emissions are triggering global warming and that steps should be taken to stop it."

Source: Greenwire [11], 06/15/2011

"Clinton Takes Role in Fighting Domestic Killer" [12]

"All around the world, women will cook meals for their families today, and as a result, in certain parts of the world, one of them will die every 16 seconds. That statistic is one of the reasons Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had planned a stop in Ethiopia on her current trip through Africa, to highlight an initiative she strongly supports: bringing cleaner cook stove technology to many parts of the developing world."

Source: CNN [13], 06/15/2011

"India Aims $1 Billion at Sacred but Filthy Ganges" [14]

"Indian officials signed an agreement with the World Bank on Tuesday to use a $1 billion loan to finance the first major new effort in more than 20 years to cleanse the revered Ganges, one of the world’s dirtiest rivers."

Source: NY Times [15], 06/15/2011

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