"Crest Will Eliminate Microbeads From Its Toothpastes"
"Procter & Gamble, the maker of Crest, has just pledged to eliminate microbeads from its toothpastes by March 2016."
Source: Yahoo!, 09/25/2014
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"Want to Find Out Where Your Fruit Was Grown? Good Luck"
"On May 6, 2014, as I read through the morning's incoming email, a Food Safety Alert from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcing a "voluntary recall of mangoes due to possible health risk" from the bacteria Listeria caught my eye. This grabbed my attention because at the time, a handsome sunset-hued mango, purchased several days before at my neighborhood market in Portland, Oregon, was ripening on the kitchen counter."
Source: Mother Jones/FERN, 09/25/2014
"Businesses Won't Have To Return BP Spill Payouts, Federal Judge Says"
"NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has ruled that BP must stand by the agreement made with the companies it compensated for losses after the 2010 Gulf oil spill despite the oil giant saying some claims were overestimated."
Source: AP, 09/25/2014
1st Amendment Alarm: USFS Says Media Need Photo Permit in Wilderness
"The U.S. Forest Service has tightened restrictions on media coverage in vast swaths of the country's wild lands, requiring reporters to pay for a permit and get permission before shooting a photo or video in federally designated wilderness areas."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 09/25/2014
"Obama To Designate World's Largest Marine Sanctuary in the Pacific"
"President Barack Obama on Thursday will designate the largest marine sanctuary in the world in an area of the Pacific Ocean that will be off-limits to commercial fishing and deep-sea mining, the White House said on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 09/25/2014
Constitution Wins After Court Imposes Prior Restraint on Pipeline Safety Info
As a nationwide newspaper chain probed safety threats posed to the public by gas pipelines, an Alabama court imposed prior restraint on the Montgomery Advertiser, to prevent it from publishing the Alabama Gas Corporation's safety plan, citing homeland security and trade secrets. Now a judge has ruled that the court erred in granting a temporary restraining order.
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Forest Service Seeks To Limit Journalists' Access to Wilderness Lands
The U.S. Forest Service is seeking to harden rules that would require a journalist to get a permit and pay a fee of up to $1,500 in order to report inside a federal wilderness. [Update -- 9/25/14: Forest Service Chief Tidwell says media don't need permit]
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Residents at Risk When Train Crews Don't Know Chemical Cargoes
"At least 18 times in the past three years BNSF Railway freight trains rolled west out of Minneapolis pulling cars filled with hazardous chemicals that were not on the train's official cargo list, according to train crew complaints."
Source: MPR News, 09/24/2014
Google, GE, Others Fund Climate-Change Deniers in Congress: Report
"According to oft-cited statistics, climate scientists are 95%-99% certain of climate change – about as certain as they are of the link between smoking and lung cancer. Nonetheless, an estimated 58% of US Republican congressmen claim to be unconvinced of it. This group, the so-called ' climate denier caucus,' is a big part of the reason that meaningful climate activist legislation keeps getting shot down. And according to a recent report, some of America’s most popular companies are helping to fund the effort."
Source: Guardian, 09/24/2014
"Watchdog Warns Nuke Weapon Sites at Risk From Natural Disasters"
"A nuclear watchdog is warning about "shortcomings" in emergency preparedness at nuclear weapons facilities around the country."
Source: The Hill, 09/23/2014
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