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"Judge Orders Halt To Mining Protests"

"A Raleigh County [WV] judge has issued a preliminary injunction to block anti-mountaintop removal activists from further peaceful protests on certain Massey Energy mining sites."

Source: Charleston Gazette, 06/04/2009

"Black Tide"

"Just days before Christmas last year, an environmental disaster one hundred times the size of the Exxon Valdez (yes, you read that right) unfolded on a riverbank in eastern Tennessee. A wave of poisonous sludge buried a town…along with the myth of clean coal."

Source: GQ, 06/04/2009

EPA Studies Used-Tire Playground Risks

"The federal government is reconsidering whether sports fields and playgrounds made from ground-up tires could harm children's health after some Environmental Protection Agency scientists raised concerns,"

Source: AP, 06/04/2009

"Companies Not Disclosing Climate Risks: Studies"

"Most global industrial companies that emit a lot of greenhouse gases are not adequately detailing their climate strategies in U.S. financial filings, two studies by environmental and investment groups showed on Wednesday."

Source: Reuters, 06/04/2009

"Recycled Radioactive Metal Contaminates Consumer Products"

"Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactive metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world."

Source: Scripps, 06/04/2009

New EPA Procedure Improves Transparency on Air Standards

The Obama EPA partially reverses a Bush-era procedure for setting health-based standards under the Clean Air Act.

"Crime Scene Cleanup" in Kelly AFB Toxics Case

New evidence indicates the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry fails to protect communities from dangers such as the now-disappearing plumes of toxic groundwater carrying cancer-causing chemicals far beyond the Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio, TX.

List of Nuclear Sites Released in Flub

The Government Printing Office web site apparently took down the publication after discovery of the mistake -- but the entire report is still available on the site of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.

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."

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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