Could Smart Meters Allow Privacy Invasion?
The Philadelphia Inquirer explores the implications of an electric meter that knows when you are sleeping, when you are awake, and a lot more besides.
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Government Clinical Trials Database Is Missing Data
The Sunlight Foundation's Real Time Investigations blog explains the problems with a registry containing information on more than 78,000 clinical trials.
Law Allows Astroturf Roots Cover-Up
Current law has no disclosure requirements for fake grass-roots lobbying — such as that of a coal industry campaign to stop climate legislation which sent forged letters to members of Congress, pretending to be from minority and community organizations.
Did EPA Hide Atrazine Risks?
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund uncovers EPA's failure to warn people in at least four states about unsafe levels of the weedkiller atrazine in their wellwater.
EPA Releases All Responses to Coal Ash Survey
The data, from hundreds of facilities in 35 states, provide reporters the raw material for hundreds of local stories.
"Hungry Coyotes Are Hunting Near Homes"
"Yorba Linda, close to one of last year's major burn areas, is among cities trapping and killing the predators. Animal activists object, and more debate is planned."
Source: LA Times, 09/09/2009
"EPA Agrees To Update Radon Emissions Standards From Uranium Mills"
"The Environmental Protection Agency agreed Friday to update its standards on radon emissions from uranium mills."
Source: Canon City Daily Record, 09/09/2009
"Endangering Species: Listing Can Make Animals Valuable Black Market Commodities"
"By certifying species as endangered, government programs can backfire."
Source: Scientific American, 09/09/2009
"CDC Rarely Probes Cancer Clusters"
The CDC rarely gets requests to investigate cancer clusters, and it is rarer still that the agency finds a cancer cluster exists, much less what caused it.
Source: Northwest Herald, 09/09/2009
"Federal Survey Finds Coal Ash Sites in 35 States"
"The toxic leftovers from burning coal for power are sitting in nearly 600 sites in 35 states, according to a federal survey released Tuesday."
Source: AP, 09/09/2009
