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"Meet The ‘Rented White Coats’ Who Defend Toxic Chemicals" [1]

"How corporate-funded research is corrupting America’s courts and regulatory agencies".

Chemicals [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Science [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Center for Public Integrity [10], 02/09/2016
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"Chlorine Trains Pose an Even Deadlier Threat Than Oil Trains" [11]

"A new report finds the railroad cars that transport the toxic gas around the United States are vulnerable to accidents and sabotage."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [12]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Military [13]
Transportation [14]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: takepart [15], 02/09/2016
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Half-Built Nuclear Fuel Plant in S. Carolina Faces Test on Its Future [16]

"Time may finally be running out on the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, a multibillion-dollar, over-budget federal project that has been hard to kill."

Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [18]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NY Times [19], 02/09/2016
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New Federal Gas Storage Rules Likely to Mimic Industry's Guidelines [20]

"Federal pipeline agency's response to Aliso Canyon disaster will likely lean on industry proposals that don't require emergency shutoffs or safer pipes."

Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: InsideClimate News [22], 02/09/2016
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"Obama Asking Congress For Emergency Funding To Combat Zika" [23]

"President Barack Obama is asking Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to fight the Zika virus and the mosquitoes that spread it here and abroad, but says "there shouldn't be a panic on this.""

Environmental Health [4]
Government [24]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: AP [25], 02/09/2016
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"Obama Proposing Clean-Water Cuts Amid Flint Outcry" [26]

"The Obama administration is expected to propose a $250 million cut to its primary funding source for water and sewer systems as part of its budget proposal Tuesday — a prospect that is bringing bipartisan criticism amid the furor over lead contamination in Flint, Mich."

Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Politico [29], 02/09/2016
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"Residents Of Minority Communities Decry Dumping Of Toxic Coal Ash" [30]

"Evoking the contaminated-water crisis in Flint, Michigan, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights showed concern and compassion Friday for residents of polluted communities who maintain they are victims of environmental racism."

Environmental Health [4]
People & Population [31]
Pollution [27]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Center for Public Integrity [32], 02/08/2016
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"Bayer Rejects EPA Request To Pull Insecticide From U.S. Market" [33]

"The agricultural unit of German chemicals company Bayer AG said on Friday it will fight a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) request to pull one of its insecticides from the marketplace amid concerns that it could harm organisms in streams and ponds."

Chemicals [2]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Reuters [34], 02/08/2016
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"Week Ahead: Obama Budget To Tout Green Priorities" [35]

"President Obama introduces the final budget of his presidency in the coming week, giving a glimpse into what he hopes to accomplish on climate change and other environmental policies before leaving office."

Government [24]
Policy [36]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: The Hill [37], 02/08/2016
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Exxon Opposes Request to Take Moral Responsibility for Climate Change [38]

"Oil giant ExxonMobil moved to reject a shareholder proposal calling for the company to assert moral leadership on climate change and pledge to work toward limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or less."

Activism [39]
Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [5]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: InsideClimate News [40], 02/05/2016
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