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WV Claims Tax Breaks for Coal-To-Liquid Plant Should Be Secret From Taxpayers [1]

Should a deal for $200 million in tax breaks for a West Virginia coal-to-liquids plant be kept a secret from taxpayers and voters?
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WV Coal-to-Liquids Plant Gets $200 Million in Secret Tax Breaks [9]

West Virginia's governor is giving $200 million in tax breaks to a coal-to-liquids plant -- but the public is not allowed to know.
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
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Source: Charleston Gazette [10], 08/08/2008
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Midnight Regs: Many Environmental Items on Final Bush Agenda [11]

The rush to deregulate whatever can be deregulated before President Bush leaves the White House is on. Part 2.

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White-House-Suppressed Climate 'Endangerment Finding' Released [16]

How did the White House suppress an EPA finding that human-induced greenhouse warming was a threat to human health (and thus subject to regulation)? By refusing to read it. But you can read it here.

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Cheney's Office Censored Warming Testimony [18]

Vice President Cheney's office blacked out scientific testimony to Congress on the public health consequences of climate change

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Environmental Politics [6]
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Iron Curtain / Green Corridor [19]

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Nearly 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, SEJ member Ashley Ahearn reports from Europe on the Iron Curtain and conservation efforts along it. It's a multimedia journalism blog, including audio, text, and pictures.
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