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Hired BP Muscle Still Blocking Access; ACLU Weighs In [1]

Mother Jones' Mac McClelland reports that some of those guys wearing uniforms and harassing journalists are actually off-duty local law enforcement officers being paid for their time by BP.

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Economy & Business [3]

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SEJ Urges Nuclear Regulatory Commission To Improve Openness [7]

SEJ's comments included suggesting the NRC lose the "minders" that babysit agency people while they talk to reporters and asking that the NRC press operation do its job of keeping reporters and the public apprised of real news.

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TOOLBOX: Denver Post Finds Thousands of Drilling Spills in Colorado [10]

A big fraction of the leaks and spills involved not merely oil, but produced water containing hydraulic fracturing fluid. You'll find lots of useful data on the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission website.

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Chemicals [11]

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TOOLBOX: Follow the Money on Gulf Oil Spill Contracts [15]

Investigative Reporters and Editors brings news of a special Gulf Oil Spill Report put out by the Federal Procurement Data System which lists all federal contracts that the General Services Administration (GSA) knows about.

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TOOLBOX: Database May Reveal an Oil Spill Near You [16]

Every spill report coming in to the NRC goes into a database which is, for the most part, publicly accessible. You can query the database online, or download it for use in your own computer-assisted reporting project.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]

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Chemicals [11]

Energy & Fuel [12]

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Exposure at Ontario Nuclear Plant Prompts Industry-Wide Probe [17]

"Emerging details of accidental radiation exposure at an Ontario nuclear power plant have triggered an order to investigate the possibility of similar incidents across the country, while raising doubts about safety at Canada’s only privately owned operator."

Nuclear Power & Radiation [8]

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Canada [18]

Source: Toronto Globe & Mail [19], 06/30/2010

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"Getting Help From the Press" [20]

A Pew Charitable Trusts workshop in the Netherlands Antilles in 2002 was supposed to be to train scientists in how to deal with the media. But did it amount to a junket that helped spin stories in a way that put out Pew's message on depleted fisheries?

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Source: Gloucester Times [22], 06/30/2010

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"Health of Exxon Valdez Cleanup Workers Was Never Studied" [23]

"You'd think that more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, scientists would know what, if any, long-term health dangers face the thousands of workers needed to clean up the Gulf of Mexico spill. You'd be wrong."

Disasters [4]

Environmental Health [24]

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National (U.S.) [5]

Source: McClatchy [25], 06/30/2010