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  • July 2008

    • EPA Staffers Told to Keep Quiet in Memo

      CNN  |  Jul 29, 08 11:33 AM CDT

      EPA Staffers Told to Keep Quiet in Memo

      (Newser) - In what some officials fear is a sign of secrecy and political meddling, an email to Environmental Protection Agency staff asked that they not answer questions from journalists, the Government Accountability Office, or its own inspector general, CNN reports. In the email, which an environmental workers’ group called a “gag order,” EPA employees were told to direct questions to superiors. More »

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      email  • Environmental Protection Agency  • Barbara Boxer  • secrecy  • Stephen Johnson

    • Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony on Climate: EPA Official

      Associated Press  |  Jul 8, 08 3:28 PM CDT

      Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony on Climate: EPA Official

      (Newser) - Aides to Vice President Dick Cheney censored congressional testimony on climate change by a top government official, a former official at the Environmental Protection Agency charges. Jason Burnett claims Cheney’s office, fearing testimony would lead to greater regulation of greenhouse gases, excised six pages of text regarding the health risks of global warming by the director of the Centers for Disease Control last fall, the AP reports. More »

  • June 2008

    • GOP Senators Block Bill on Climate Change

      Associated Press  |  Jun 6, 08 10:23 AM CDT

      GOP Senators Block Bill on Climate Change

      (Newser) - Republican senators blocked a landmark climate change bill today in a filibuster, making it likely that the carbon-capping legislation will be shelved until next year. After a debate over the economic costs of the bill—which would cut CO2 emissions by 71% by 2050—the Senate came up a dozen votes short of the number needed to end the filibuster, the AP reports. More »

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      climate change  • carbon emissions  • Mitch McConnell  • Barbara Boxer  • carbon caps

  • March 2008

    • Senator Blasts 'Foot-Dragging' on Protecting Polar Bear

      Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  |  Mar 21, 08 2:50 PM CDT

      Senator Blasts 'Foot-Dragging' on Protecting Polar Bear

      (Newser) - Three months after the deadline for declaring whether polar bears are a threatened species, the Interior Department hasn't issued a ruling, and Barbara Boxer wants to know why. The influential senator said yesterday she wants Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to appear before the environment committee and “answer questions about the administration’s continued foot-dragging,” the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports. More »

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      Alaska  • polar bear  • Endangered Species Act  • Barbara Boxer  • Chukchi Sea  • Dirk Kempthorne

    • Senate to Hold Drug Water Hearings

      Associated Press  |  Mar 11, 08 6:50 AM CDT

      Senate to Hold Drug Water Hearings

      (Newser) - Alarmed by an AP story, two top senators vowed yesterday to probe drug traces in US drinking water. Sen. Barbara Boxer and Sen. Frank Lautenberg plan to lead hearings next month to "protect our residents and clean up our water supply," Lautenberg said. The first of AP's three PharmaWater stories reported that antibiotics, sex hormones, and dozens of other drugs float in water consumed by 41 million Americans. More »

  • December 2007
  • November 2007

    • Gay Groups Want Craig Probe Halted

      The Hill  |  Nov 13, 07 1:30 PM CST

      Gay Groups Want Craig Probe Halted

      (Newser) - Prominent gay rights groups are calling on the Senate Ethics Committee to drop its sexual misconduct probe of Larry Craig, calling the panel’s focus on the senator’s case—combined with the lack of focus on David Vitter’s—“hypocrisy tinged by homophobia.” The two groups say Craig has been singled out because his behavior was homosexual, whereas Vitter’s alleged visits to prostitutes were heterosexual, the Hill reports. More »

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      California  • gay rights  • Larry Craig  • homophobia  • Barbara Boxer  • Senate Ethics Committee  • David Vitter

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