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TRI Offers New "Comparative Query" Tool [1]

The beta tool allows anyone to compare TRI information from a facility to air pollution data from the same facility or a related one. For example, an investigator could find inconsistencies in the amount of pollution reported by a facility under the two separate laws.

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Envirofacts Warehouse Gets Geographic Makeover, Update [8]

This newly powerful, easy-to-use mapping tool can help environmental journalists find and report great local and regional stories.

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As TRI Goes Electronic, Speed Records Fall [9]

The new record for getting raw data reported by industry to the general public: 28 days. Nearly 95 percent of reporting companies filed their reports electronically.

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Cool Tools for Reporters Showcased at 2010 TRI Meeting [10]

The WatchDog attended EPA's annual training conference for government workers on the Toxics Release Inventory, Nov. 1-3, 2010. See a preview of the showcased offerings, which have extra emphasis on environmental justice and EPA data tools ranging far beyond TRI. 

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"Black Floridians Await Settlement on Toxic Contamination" [11]

"For close to four decades, residents of Tallevast in southwest Florida lived side by side with the American Beryllium Company, which employed local men and women to manufacture parts for nuclear weapons. Each day, workers inhaled beryllium dust and brought it home on their clothing."

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Source: IPS [14], 10/29/2010

25,000 Abandoned Mines Are Just the Beginning [15]

The BLM is documenting where the mines are, and ramping up efforts to mitigate threats from them, such as water contamination, traps for people and animals, and deteriorating old explosives lurking in some dark corners.

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New Ozone Standards Could Have Big Impact [20]

If EPA's health-based primary standard is reduced from its current level of 75 parts per billion to 60 ppb, which is the low end of what the agency's science advisors have recommended, about 67% of the US population would live in monitored counties that would be out of compliance.

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Laws & Regulations [21]
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"Rig Inspectors Had Vast Gaps in Knowledge, Oil Spill Panel Finds" [23]

"Members of President Barack Obama's Oil Spill Commission said this week that they were shocked to learn during their months of investigation that federal drilling rig inspectors generally know little or nothing about the process of safely lining and sealing an offshore oil well."

Disasters [19]
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Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [25], 10/27/2010

"Slide in EPA Clean Water Criminal Enforcement Continues Under Obama" [26]

"Criminal enforcement of federal water-pollution laws has continued a more than decadelong slide under the Obama administration, despite pledged improvements, according to U.S. EPA data."

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Source: Greenwire [27], 10/26/2010

"An Ethics Overhaul at BLM?" [28]

The Bureau of Land Management is likely to re-open an ethics investigation involving Steve Henke, a former BLM district manager who recently took a job as head of an advocacy group for the oil and gas industry he used to regulate.

Environmental Politics [29]
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Source: Mother Jones [30], 10/25/2010

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