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FDA Mulls Putting Public's Health Above Companies' Trade Secrets

NYT: "The goal is to open up a system in which the agency failed to inform the public that a widely prescribed heartburn drug was especially toxic to babies; that a diabetes medicine and a painkiller increased heart attack risks; and that antidepressants increased suicidal thoughts and behavior in children and teenagers."

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Obama Openness Promise Still Unfulfilled at MSHA

The Mine Safety and Health Administration still denies FOIA requests, including one filed in Oct. 2008 by mine safety attorney Tony Oppegard for some witness statements.

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Climate Bill Earmarks Billions for 'Clean Coal'

"In the negotiations over the Waxman-Markey climate bill, Rep. Rick Boucher inserted a giant gift to the utility industry. It would create the Carbon Storage Research Corporation and funnel $10 billion to support the corporation over the next 10 years...."

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Source: SolveClimate, 06/03/2009

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Beaver: "Voyage of the Dammed"

Beaver may redeem the West from false landscapes of fast-flowing streams with open banks. They may not only return the land to what it was, but conserve water.

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Source: High Country News, 06/03/2009

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UL Starts Certifying Green Products

"Underwriters Laboratories, whose ubiquitous product-safety labels have made it household name for more than a century, is pushing hard to make a new name for itself as a global environmental-standards tester."

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Source: NYTimes, 06/03/2009

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Suit Aims To Stop Logging Near Rio Grande

Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging a National Fores logging project in Colorado that would impact the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

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Source: ENS, 06/03/2009

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"Possible Changes to House Climate Bill"

Various House committees will try to remake the climate bill in a shape favored by the interests they represent, before it faces more amendments on the floor this summer.

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Source: Reuters, 06/03/2009

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"Court Battles Loom Over Gray Wolf In West"

"A pair of federal judges will decide which states in the Northern Rockies have enough gray wolves to allow public hunting, as the bitter debate over the region's wolves heads to courts in Wyoming and Montana."

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Source: NPR, 06/03/2009

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"FDA Reviewing Decision on Safety of BPA"

After a letter from key Congressmen, the FDA is reviewing its Bush-era decision that BPA, a chemical used in baby bottles and food containers, is safe.

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Source: AP, 06/03/2009