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TOOLBOX: EPA Adds 6,300 Chemicals and 3,800 Facilities to Database [6]

Find out more about potentially toxic chemicals in public commerce in the Envirofacts database, updated by EPA with previously unavailable information it collects under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

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Did Justice Dept. Prevent Abramoff from Appearing in Abramoff Film? [8]

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed FOIA requests for information, alleging that the Justice Department refused to let the incarcerated super-lobbyist do on-camera interviews.

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Forest Service Gags Employees, Belies Obama Openness Vow [9]

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility obtained and disclosed a USFS memo ordering its law enforcement personnel not to talk to reporters about anything without first getting clearance from its Washington director and press office.

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Judge Backs Chevron's Grab for Documentary Out-takes in Ecuador Case [12]

A federal district judge in New York ordered film-maker Joe Berlinger to turn over more than 600 hours of raw footage from his documentary "Crude," about a lawsuit by natives in Ecuador charging Chevron with polluting the Amazon rainforest there.

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Bush EPA Suppressed NM Waste Records To Sidestep FOIA [18]

EPA Region 6 officials deliberately stopped creating written records related to their oversight of a New Mexico waste facility in order to thwart Freedom of Information Act requests from a citizens' group, according to an EPA Inspector General's report.

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Calif. Desalination Plant: Dream Water Supply or Drain on Taxes? [21]

Local officials in Carlsbad, Calif., see salvation for their water-starved community in a huge proposed desalination plant. Poseidon Resources, the company hoping to build it, says building it won't cost taxpayers and ratepayers a dime. But tough investigative reporting shows that southern Californians would pay at least $640 million over 30 years for the project.

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"Greenville Opposes Burying CO2" [25]

"'NUMBY' -- Not Under My BackYard. That's what Greenville, Ohio, residents told the U.S. government when it wanted to bury global warming emissions under the town."

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"Denial-Palooza Round 4: ...Groups Funded by Exxon, Koch Industries" [29]

The Heartland Institute's fourth annual gathering of climate change deniers May 16-18 in Chicago, organized by groups funded by the oil and coal industries, drew little media attention.

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