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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.
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Health
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Policy
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National (U.S.)
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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.
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Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change
Energy & Fuel
Laws & Regulations
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National (U.S.)
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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.
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Chemicals
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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.
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Disasters
Energy & Fuel
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National (U.S.)
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EPA Rule Targets Aircraft Deicing Runoff

A proposed rule for control of fluid-contaminated runoff at primary commercial airports would reduce the substantial threats to drinking water, surface water, air quality, wildlife, plants, and soils at airports and the surrounding areas.
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EPA Releases Bulk of Tri Data for 2008

This new resource can provide some good initial clues for important stories that in years past had to be deferred at least two more months, and sometimes far longer.
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Chemicals
Government
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Mercury Found in All Sampled Fish in U.S. Streams

USGS researchers have found that it may be impossible for people eating fish caught in US waters to avoid eating mercury-contaminated fish.
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Fish & Fisheries
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Water & Oceans
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Plug-In Hybrids: Coming to a School Near You?

Current economic doldrums may impair the general market appeal of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles for a while, but hybrid diesel schoolbuses are one aspect pulling into high gear.
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Data Deficit Hampers Consumer Product Safety Commission

A new GAO report says Customs has refused to give the CPSC shipping-manifest information it has been requesting for years. The manifests are a way to track products imported into the U.S. which may have been recalled due to toxicity and/or safety issues.
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Judge Orders USDA To Release Data on Wolf Program

The locations of conflicts in New Mexico and Arizona between livestock and Mexican gray wolves, which were reintroduced in 1998, will now be made public in hopes of identifying problem areas and taking preventive steps.
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Publication Items

Government Clinical Trials Database Is Missing Data

Law Allows Astroturf Roots Cover-Up

Did EPA Hide Atrazine Risks?

EPA Releases All Responses to Coal Ash Survey

EPA Rule Targets Aircraft Deicing Runoff

EPA Releases Bulk of Tri Data for 2008

Mercury Found in All Sampled Fish in U.S. Streams

Plug-In Hybrids: Coming to a School Near You?

Data Deficit Hampers Consumer Product Safety Commission

Judge Orders USDA To Release Data on Wolf Program

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