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There are places along the Mississippi River (e.g. New Orleans) where many people live in areas that would normally be flooded, were it not for levees or other flood control works.

The WTC victims were killed not just by terrorists, but by the buildings themselves.

Cropduster flights resumed Sept. 25, 2001. The FBI had ordered cropdusters grounded nationwide temporarily in late Sept. 2001.

The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection was set up in July 1996 under President Clinton's Executive Order 13010.

Timber-rich states and regions grapple with public calls for ending clear-cutting.

Some of "The Rules" laid down by the EPA press office, as experienced by SEJ members, include the following:

A Senate bill would require members of Congress who add FOIA exemptions to legislation to flag them.

The University of California "has begun withholding public records that detail how animal research is done.

Need another reason not to go through the "press office?" Try reading the transcript from the White House briefing of June 8, 2005.

A freelance journalist is challenging in court the US Department of Agriculture's efforts to keep secret its data on who owns the feedlots Americans can see and smell, but whose pollution the food industry does not want USDA to regulate.