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CSB Reschedules W.VA. Meeting After Bayer Secrecy Demands [1]

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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Disasters [3]
Chemicals [4]
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"Federal Judge Says No to Modified Crops on U.S. Refuge Land" [8]

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 [9]
Public [7]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [5]
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch [10], 03/25/2009

"EPA Says It Could Block Mountaintop Coal Permits" [11]

EPA, in a surprise move, is asserting its Clean Water Act authority over mountaintop removal mining permits.
Natural Resources [12]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [5]
Source: Reuters [13], 03/25/2009

Coal Remining: One Way to Clean Up Acid Drainage? [14]

Acid mine drainage from abandoned coal mines is the biggest water-quality problem in the Appalachian states.
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Chemicals [4]
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It's Hurricane Prime-Time in Gulf and Atlantic States [16]

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 [15]
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Water & Oceans [17]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
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Top 10 Endangered Southern Areas [19]

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 [15]
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Planning & Growth [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Forests [22]
Natural Resources [12]
Transportation [23]
Water & Oceans [17]
Biodiversity [24]
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National (U.S.) [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
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PENNSYLVANIA FORBIDS LABELING OF MILK PRODUCED WITHOUT ARTIFICIAL HORMONES [25]

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 [26]
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Pennsylvania Reverses Ban On "Hormone-Free" Milk Labeling [27]

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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New Smithsonian Head Pleads To Keep FOIA Exemption [28]

The Smithsonian Institution, a federal agency with many environment-related research and public education activities, opposes a Congressional move that would subject it to the same open-records law that applies to other executive branch agencies.
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Laws & Regulations [26]
Government [29]
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Baltimore, MD 2002 [30]

The 12th annual conference, October 9-13, included a searching examination of the environment beat's "blind spots", and a spirited exchange between two key members of Congress and President George W. Bush's top environmental advisor about politics and policy in the post-9/11 era. Among the more than 30 session topics: Rachel Carson's legacy, ten years after Rio, cancer clusters, "Frankenfish" and an insider's look at the "big ten" environmental groups.

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