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Obama's Budget Impacts Environment in Many Ways [1]

President Obama's $3.8 trillion fiscal 2011 budget proposal, released Feb. 1, funds private nuclear plants, Great Lakes and Chesapeake cleanup, and acquisition of land for conservation. It cuts Yucca Mountain, fossil subsidies, and EPA. It still hopes to get revenue from cap-and-trade ... and affects the environment in myriad other ways.

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Source: Wash Post [5], 02/02/2010

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"Profile: Environmental Justice Comes Naturally to New EPA Region 9 Administrator" [6]

"Jared Blumenfeld, the newly appointed director of the U.S. EPA's Pacific Southwest region, Region 9, is pledging to make life difficult for polluters, especially those who despoil the environment in underserved and vulnerable communities."

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Source: ENS [7], 01/29/2010

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"EPA Probes Its Actions in Town With Toxic-Waste Dump" [8]

"The federal agency's internal investigation will run concurrently with a state and local inquiry into health and environmental issues facing Kettleman City, Calif."

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Source: LA Times [9], 01/29/2010

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"Climate, Energy Programs Could See Boosts Despite Budget Freeze" [10]

"Climate change and clean energy programs, which the Obama administration has championed, are expected to remain priorities at U.S. EPA and the Energy Department in the president's fiscal 2011 budget request despite a request to freeze non-military discretionary spending for the next three years."

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Source: Greenwire [11], 01/28/2010

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EPA Moves for Disclosure of Pesticide "Inert" Ingredients [12]

In a historic step forward, EPA's proposed rule would require disclosure of ALL pesticide ingredients — which has not been required for decades.

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EPA Takes Some Trade Secret Wraps off of Chemical Identity [15]

But apparently confidentiality claims will only be rejected in cases where the chemicals have already been disclosed in the Toxic Substances Control Act inventory.

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Data.gov: 100s of New Fed Datasets Released, Many Environmental [16]

This includes three new datasets from EPA, PLUS many other datasets relevant to environmental issues, released in response to a Dec. 8, 2009, White House open government order.

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"Interior Chief Salazar's First Year a Gusher of Controversy" [17]

"Somewhere just after 12:30 p.m. on a cold Wednesday this month, the image of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as a Western pragmatist and wily political deal-maker evaporated in a cloud of heated rhetoric."

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Source: Denver Post [18], 01/26/2010

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"The Eco-Warrior" -- Rolling Stone Profiles Lisa Jackson [19]

"President Obama has appointed the most progressive EPA chief in history — and she's moving swiftly to clean up the mess left by Bush."

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Source: Rolling Stone [20], 01/21/2010

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Sunlight Tool Makes Tracking White House Visitors Easier [21]

Sunlight Foundation took the raw data of White House visitor logs, matched the names to those in OpenSecrets.org, FollowTheMoney.org, LittleSis.org, Google and Wikipedia, and created a searchable online database.

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