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Digital Drop-Dead Date May Create Recycling Nightmare [1]

On February 17, 2009, all full-power broadcast US television stations will stop broadcasting on analog airwaves and begin broadcasting only in digital. So, many old TVs are now creating e-waste challenges as they're relegated to landfills and recycling centers.

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NIEHS Follow-Up: Assurances of a Robust, Independent Journal? [8]

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), the embattled flagship journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has a new editor-in-chief - Hugh A. Tilson. But will he have the editorial independence NIEHS leaders have promised him?

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REVISED FOIA BILL MAY BE SET FOR FAST TRACK [11]

Senate sponsors of a bipartisan Senate bill to strengthen agency compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have crafted a compromise version and reintroduced it in hopes of speeding Congressional action.

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EPA HIDES INDUSTRY DATA ON ATRAZINE RISK [12]

An EPA database that has not been made public shows alarming levels of the pesticide atrazine are showing up in water bodies around the U.S.

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CNN, Weather Channel Axe Environmental Units [14]

At a time when public understanding of complex science and environmental issues grows critical, CNN laid off its entire science/enviro team and NBC's The Weather Channel fired the staff of the "Forecast Earth" environmental program.

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Energy Department Midnight Reg Seeks To Bind Obama To Keep Old Secrets [17]

The Energy Department in December 2008 published an 11th-hour proposed amendment to the Bush administration's secrecy rules that shroud the policies that brought Americans Enron, California blackouts, and $4 gasoline.

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MSHA Publishes Long-Withheld (but Legally Required) FOIA Report [21]

The Labor Department's Mine Safety and Health Administration finally released its Freedom of Information Act annual reports — after fighting veteran FOIA requester Mike Ravnitsky for some 18 months.

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Industry Keeps Secret the Gas-Drilling Toxins Seeping into Drinking Wells [22]

A series of drinking-water contamination incidents have raised doubts about EPA's safety claims regarding hydraulic fracturing in domestic gas wells. And it's hard for people to get to the bottom of those claims when the identity of the chemicals injected during the process is protected as a "trade secret."

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In a Pinch? On Deadline? Remember FOIA Friends [25]

The Freedom of Information Act is still one of the most powerful tools in a reporter's toolbelt. Here's our short list of useful FOIA helpers.

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States Sue EPA Over Data on Plants' Toxic Threat to Communities [26]

Twelve states sued EPA Oct. 28, 2007, over the agency's cutbacks in data available to communities about the toxic threats presented to them by nearby industrial plants.

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