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EPA Grants and Contracts Databases Offer Gumshoes Eye on Agency [1]

Grants and contracts are a key way that the agency extends the reach of its work into the world beyond agency offices. They may include an engineering project to clean up a Superfund site, an environmental education and outreach program, snow-plowing agency parking lots, expert studies, and computer services.

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"Oil Output Freeze Is an OPEC Agreement With a Catch" [6]

Russia and Saudi Arabia have said they will freeze oil production if others do -- but Iran wants to ramp up production after the lifting of sanctions.

Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Public [5]
International [8]
Source: NY Times [9], 02/17/2016
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"E-Commerce: Convenience Built on a Mountain of Cardboard" [10]

"Ruchit Garg, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, says that he worries that something isn’t right with his Internet shopping habit. With each new delivery to his doorstep — sometimes several in a day — he faces the source of his guilt and frustration: another cardboard box."

Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [3]
Waste [12]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NY Times [14], 02/16/2016
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"Ford Spent $40 Million To Reshape Asbestos Science" [15]

"Stung by lawsuits, the automaker hired consultants to change the narrative on the risks of asbestos brakes".

Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Science [18]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Center for Public Integrity [19], 02/16/2016
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"Obama On Supreme Court Climate Ruling: 'Don't Despair'" [20]

"President Barack Obama told supporters 'don't despair' and overreact to the Supreme Court's decision this week that temporarily blocks the administration's rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: CNN [23], 02/12/2016
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"Liquid Assets" [24]

"A maverick hedge fund manager thinks Wall Street is the answer to the water crisis in the West."

Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: ProPublica [26], 02/10/2016
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"Trans-Pacific Partnership Signed, Critics Cry ‘Toxic’" [27]

"The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement was signed Thursday in Auckland, New Zealand by officials from 12 nations from around the Pacific Rim that together account for nearly 40 percent of the global economy."

Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [5]
International [8]
Source: ENS [28], 02/10/2016
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"EPA Gets Funding Boost In Obama's Budget" [29]

"President Obama is again asking Congress to increase spending for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and provide dedicated funding for new climate change regulations."

Economy & Business [3]
Government [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [30], 02/10/2016
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"Meet The ‘Rented White Coats’ Who Defend Toxic Chemicals" [31]

"How corporate-funded research is corrupting America’s courts and regulatory agencies".

Chemicals [32]
Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Science [18]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Center for Public Integrity [33], 02/09/2016
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"Obama Proposing Clean-Water Cuts Amid Flint Outcry" [34]

"The Obama administration is expected to propose a $250 million cut to its primary funding source for water and sewer systems as part of its budget proposal Tuesday — a prospect that is bringing bipartisan criticism amid the furor over lead contamination in Flint, Mich."

Disasters [35]
Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Politico [37], 02/09/2016
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