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Government Clinical Trials Database Is Missing Data [8]

The Sunlight Foundation's Real Time Investigations blog explains the problems with a registry containing information on more than 78,000 clinical trials.

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Law Allows Astroturf Roots Cover-Up [11]

Current law has no disclosure requirements for fake grass-roots lobbying — such as that of a coal industry campaign to stop climate legislation which sent forged letters to members of Congress, pretending to be from minority and community organizations.

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Did EPA Hide Atrazine Risks? [14]

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund uncovers EPA's failure to warn people in at least four states about unsafe levels of the weedkiller atrazine in their wellwater.

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EPA Releases All Responses to Coal Ash Survey [16]

The data, from hundreds of facilities in 35 states, provide reporters the raw material for hundreds of local stories.

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"EPA Agrees To Update Radon Emissions Standards From Uranium Mills" [18]

"The Environmental Protection Agency agreed Friday to update its standards on radon emissions from uranium mills."

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Source: Canon City Daily Record [20], 09/09/2009

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"CDC Rarely Probes Cancer Clusters" [21]

The CDC rarely gets requests to investigate cancer clusters, and it is rarer still that the agency finds a cancer cluster exists, much less what caused it.

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Source: Northwest Herald [22], 09/09/2009

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"Federal Survey Finds Coal Ash Sites in 35 States" [23]

"The toxic leftovers from burning coal for power are sitting in nearly 600 sites in 35 states, according to a federal survey released Tuesday."

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Source: AP [25], 09/09/2009

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"Environmental Groups Wait to See Definitive Action From Obama" [26]

"While [Van] Jones was criticized as a left-wing zealot, the Obama team's record so far on the environment has been far from radical."

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Source: Wash Post [28], 09/09/2009

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"Polluted Caves Endanger Water Supplies, Wildlife" [29]

"Caves are home to some of the planet's most unusual creatures and important drinking water supplies. Now these underground resources are being polluted by surface activities, ranging from sewage spills to old factories. Experts call the problem 'extensive and serious.' Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, Crevice Cave in Missouri and Whispering Canyon Cave in Alaska are examples. 'People need to be aware that there’s a subterranean ecosystem and that what happens on the surface impacts these unique ecosystems in a very real way,' said David Culver, a biologist at American University."

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