"The Science Beneath the Surface: A Very Short Guide to the Marcellus Shale"
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"Dire Predictions On Ebola's Spread From Top Health Organizations"
"Two of the world's top health organizations released predictions Tuesday warning how bad the Ebola outbreak in West Africa could get."
Source: NPR, 09/24/2014
Firm Seeks To Silence Fracking Pollution Concerns with Defamation Suit
The video of Steve Lipsky setting his drinking water on fire nearly went viral on You Tube. The fracking company he thinks caused the problem is suing him for defamation. Now that case is headed for the Texas Supreme Court. Oral arguments are scheduled for December 4.
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Congress Doesn't Want You To Read These Reports
More evidence of Congress' ineffectiveness comes in its ongoing failure to keep its secrets actually secret. Its official policy is to keep the Congressional Research Service from publicly releasing the handy explainers it produces at taxpayer expense. Thanks again to the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project for unauthorized publication of these reports.
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Shouldn't "Trade Secrets" Face a Sunset in Interests of Public Health?
One of the oldest tricks U.S. industry has used to hide the potential harm to public health done by chemicals it puts into the environment is to claim that their identities are trade secrets via a loophole established under the antiquated Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976. On August 21st, a coalition of groups petitioned EPA for toxic trade secrets to have an expiration date.
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"Evidence Suggests Ebola Toll Vastly Underestimated: WHO"
"CONAKRY, Guinea -- Staff with the World Health Organisation battling an Ebola outbreak in West Africa see evidence the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimates the scale of the outbreak, the U.N. agency said on its website on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 08/15/2014
"CDC Issues Emergency 'All-Hands' Call for Ebola Response"
"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday issued its highest alert for an all-hands on deck response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa."
Source: AFP, 08/07/2014
"As Ebola Surges, CDC Sends Aid And Warns Against Travel"
"For the second time this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised the travel alert for three West African countries, as the death toll in the Ebola outbreak increased at an alarming rate."
Source: NPR, 08/01/2014
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