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Congress Chiefs Want Probe into Secret Bayer Poison Gas [1]

House Energy Chair Waxman and Senate Commerce Chair Rockefeller call for investigation of whether Bayer could use safer chemicals at its Institute WV plant.
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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Chemicals [3]
Disasters [4]
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After Secrecy Claims, Bayer's Own Lapses Revealed as Biggest Threat [8]

A U.S. Chemical Safety Board public hearing, delayed for a month due to Bayer's pleas for secrecy, finds lack of safety to be contributing factors to the 'accident' that killed two at an Institute, WV, plant in August 2008.
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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
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Chemicals [3]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Politics [9]
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CSB Reschedules W.VA. Meeting After Bayer Secrecy Demands [10]

A public meeting regarding the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's investigation of the August 2008 explosion at Bayer CropScience which killed two workers, originally scheduled for March 19, was postponed to April 23, 2009.

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"Federal Judge Says No to Modified Crops on U.S. Refuge Land" [11]

WASHINGTON -- In a court case with potential impact in Missouri and across the country, a federal judge in Delaware ruled today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife should not have permitted farming with genetically modified crops on a national wildlife refuge. U.S. District Judge Gregory Sleet wrote that the Fish and Wildlife agency erred by failing to conduct environmental studies to determine whether farming with genetically modified crops at the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware was compatible with conservation and habitat preservation. Bill Lambrecht reports for the St.

Agriculture [12]
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Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch [13], 03/25/2009

"EPA Says It Could Block Mountaintop Coal Permits" [14]

EPA, in a surprise move, is asserting its Clean Water Act authority over mountaintop removal mining permits.
Natural Resources [15]
Public [7]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [6]
Source: Reuters [16], 03/25/2009

Coal Remining: One Way to Clean Up Acid Drainage? [17]

Acid mine drainage from abandoned coal mines is the biggest water-quality problem in the Appalachian states.
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Chemicals [3]
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It's Hurricane Prime-Time in Gulf and Atlantic States [19]

The next 6 weeks or so will see the peak of the hurricane season along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
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TipSheet [18]
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Water & Oceans [20]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [21]
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Top 10 Endangered Southern Areas [22]

The Southern Environmental Law Center's top 10 places in America's South that face "immediate, potentially irreparable threats in 2009" represent a cross-section of the major environmental issues facing these states.
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TipSheet [18]
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Planning & Growth [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Forests [25]
Natural Resources [15]
Transportation [26]
Water & Oceans [20]
Biodiversity [27]
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National (U.S.) [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [21]
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PENNSYLVANIA FORBIDS LABELING OF MILK PRODUCED WITHOUT ARTIFICIAL HORMONES [28]

Consumers who want to choose milk produced without the use of artificial hormones are out of luck - if they live in Pennsylvania. That is not a choice the state will allow them.
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Laws & Regulations [29]
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Pennsylvania Reverses Ban On "Hormone-Free" Milk Labeling [30]

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) overruled a ban by the state's Department of Agriculture on the labelling of milk as "hormone free."
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