"Big Oil Spends $69.5 Million on Ads To Get the Congress It Wants"
"It's worth a lot to the oil and coal lobbies to get the Congress they want and the investment seems to be paying off."
Source: Guardian, 11/04/2010
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"State Probe Into Acreage Cancer Cluster Ends With No Cause Found"
Florida has ended its investigation of excess childhood brain cancer cases in the unincorporated Palm Beach County community known as The Acreage without finding any environmental cause.
Source: Palm Beach Post, 11/04/2010
Idaho's Rep. Mike Simpson To Take Over Interior Appropriations Panel
"The Republican takeover of the U.S. House makes Rep. Mike Simpson chairman of Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies and the second-ranking Republican on the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development."
Source: Idaho Statesman, 11/04/2010
"Woman Loses Bid to Lead Navajos"
"Lynda Lovejoy, a state senator in New Mexico, and her running mate, Earl Tulley, have lost their bid to become the first woman and the first environmental leader to lead the Navajo Nation, the largest American Indian tribe."
Source: NYTimes, 11/04/2010
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Green Real Estate Conference
The event will include discussion and strategic update on the economics, benefits, and value of green buildings, along with some of the best practices that can be used to create these types of properties.
Got TMDLs? Sneak Peek of New Pollutant Loading Tool Could Raise Ruckus
EPA in-house tool may be released to public within months. It will give reporters themselves the ability to estimate the cumulative impacts of pollution on water bodies.
MY-RTK Lets Users Probe Toxic Emissions from Their Smartphones
myRTK lets you thumb in an address or ZIP code and get back a map or list of Toxics Release Inventory facilities on your feature phone or smart phone.
EPA Gives Public an Environmental Justice Mapping Tool: EJView
This new tool allows any user online to create custom study areas based on a wide range of variables: address, ZIP code, county, city, township, facility, watershed, or geographic coordinates. Other environmental data can then be mapped onto that study area.
TRI Offers New "Comparative Query" Tool
The beta tool allows anyone to compare TRI information from a facility to air pollution data from the same facility or a related one. For example, an investigator could find inconsistencies in the amount of pollution reported by a facility under the two separate laws.
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