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Federal Advisory Committee Meetings All Too Often Closed to Public [1]

An important, but little-known, transparency law requires that FAC meetings be open to the public. But a new study shows that more than two-thirds of the time, they are not. On those committees, industry "experts" who have a financial stake may be telling agencies to ignore scientific findings in their regulation of things like environmental health and toxic chemicals.

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"Meat Industry, Calif. Could Head To Court Over Cancer Warning Labels" [6]

"The recent finding by an international panel that eating processed meat increases the risk of cancer could trigger warning labels under California law and a legal battle by meat producers and their trade groups to avoid the requirement."

Environmental Health [7]
Food [8]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
California [9]
Source: McClatchy [10], 11/10/2015
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"The Hole in Obama's Pipeline Safety Plan" [11]

"After a ruptured oil pipeline went undiscovered for 17 hours, spilling 800,000 gallons of heavy oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River in 2010, Congress ordered an audit that laid bare the industry's lackluster record of spotting leaks. But after five years of work, the Obama administration has proposed a regulatory overhaul that fails to patch that hole in the nation’s pipeline safety net — a revelation that has been largely ignored amid Washington's obsession with the Keystone XL pipeline."

Disasters [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [14]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Politico [16], 11/10/2015
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Industry Asks Supreme Court To Take Up Chesapeake Cleanup Plan [17]

"The American Farm Bureau Federation and other industry groups today asked the Supreme Court to review U.S. EPA's landmark approach for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay."

Agriculture [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [21]
Source: Greenwire [22], 11/09/2015
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"Peabody Energy Agrees to Greater Disclosures of Financial Risks" [23]

"Peabody Energy, the world’s biggest private coal company, has agreed to make more robust disclosures to its investors about the financial risks it faces from future government policies and regulations related to climate change and other environmental issues that could reduce demand for its product."

Climate Change [24]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NY Times [26], 11/09/2015
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Citing Climate, Obama Rejects Construction of Keystone XL Pipeline [27]

"President Obama announced on Friday that he had rejected the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ending a seven-year review that had become a symbol of the debate over his climate policies."

Climate Change [24]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NY Times [28], 11/09/2015
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"Bishop Unveils LWCF Reform Package, Rousing Critics" [29]

"House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) [Thursday] proposed comprehensive reforms to the Land and Water Conservation Fund in a bill that would send significantly more money to states and greatly curtail the purchase of new federal lands."

Environmental Politics [19]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Natural Resources [30]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Greenwire [31], 11/06/2015
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"Details of Controversial Pacific Trade Deal: What You Need To Know" [32]

"Details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal were released Thursday, potentially setting off another round of debate on the controversial agreement involving one dozen nations."

Activism [33]
Climate Change [24]
Economy & Business [25]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
International [34]
Source: Christian Science Monitor [35], 11/06/2015
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More Oil Companies Could Join Exxon as Focus of Climate Investigations [36]

"The opening of an investigation of Exxon Mobil by the New York attorney general’s office into the company’s record on climate change may well spur legal inquiries into other oil companies, according to legal and climate experts, although successful prosecutions are far from assured."

Climate Change [24]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NY Times [37], 11/06/2015
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"U.S. Presidential Hopeful Sanders Unveils Climate Change Bill" [38]

"Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders on Wednesday threw his weight behind a climate-change bill that would crack down on fossil fuel extraction, a move sure to please activists who want party front-runner Hillary Clinton to make the same commitment."

Climate Change [24]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Reuters [39], 11/05/2015
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