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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Who owns your tomato? Another big horticultural seed company bought by Monsanto	Matthew Dillon	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, Department of Justice, food, industrial ag, regulation (all these topics)

Nothing busted but our chops How the 2007 Farm Bill can help restore market competition	Aimee Witteman	13 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Congress, Department of Agriculture, Department of Justice, food, politics (all these topics)

Shocker: EPA enforcement declines Sigh	David Roberts	23 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Department of Justice, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Another One Writes the Bust Court rules against Bush administration's fish-protection plan		10 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Another One Writes the Bust Court rules against Bush administration's fish-protection plan The Great Judicial Smackdown of 2007 continued this week, with a federal appeals court ruling that the Bush administration's plan for "protecting" fish on the Northwest's Columbia and Snake rivers violates the Endangered Species Act. The feds had claimed that the rivers' hydroelectric dams c ...
Topics: dams, Department of Justice, endangered species, news, politics (all these topics)

Never underestimate the power of sleeping around Between the sheets in the Abramoff scandel	Kate Sheppard	04 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Department of Interior, Department of Justice, lobbying, lying liars, politics (all these topics)

Karma Duke Supremes say upgrading coal plants without reducing pollution a no-no		03 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Karma Duke Supremes say upgrading coal plants without reducing pollution a no-no We love the Supreme Court this week. In a unanimous decision yesterday, Big Justice overturned a lower court ruling and declared that Duke Energy did indeed violate the Clean Air Act when it modernized coal plants without paying for pollution-reduction equipment. Duke had claimed it wasn't required to consu ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, Department of Justice, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

Supreme Slapdown Supreme Court rules against Bush administration in global-warming case		02 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Supreme Slapdown Supreme Court rules against Bush administration in global-warming case In a landmark Supreme Court case -- the first ever on the issue of global warming -- the court has ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and that the U.S. EPA should regulate it as such. Boo-yah! The ruling is the latest in a long series of blows to the ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Department of Justice, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics (all these topics)

I'm Rich, Beach Oil lobbyist, former U.S. officials combat rumors of unethical real-estate deal		15 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
I'm Rich, Beach Oil lobbyist, former U.S. officials combat rumors of unethical real-estate deal We would never engage in idle speculation about the allegedly unethical relationship between a ConocoPhillips oil lobbyist, a former U.S. Interior top dog, and the Justice Department's freshly resigned lead eco-prosecutor. But the big boys would, and we consider it our duty to share. The big boy ...
Topics: Department of Interior, Department of Justice, energy, news, oil (all these topics)

The Sum of Alito Fears Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito has enviros worried	Amanda Griscom Little	01 Nov 2005	Muckraker
Samuel Alito, to the right of President Bush (ahem). Photo: Paul Morse/The White House. Enviro advocates in D.C. have spent the last 24 hours digging through Samuel Alito's extensive paper trail for clues as to how he might vote on environmental cases were he confirmed as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. A staunchly conservative judge who's served on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. ...
Topics: Department of Justice, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

The Rocky Flats Horror Picture Show Ex-FBI agent charges feds with radioactive coverup at Rocky Flats	Amanda Griscom Little	21 Jan 2005	Muckraker
The plotline sounds as absurd as a made-for-TV movie: An FBI agent exposes deadly contamination at an old nuclear-weapons plant, but the federal government conceals the findings. Years later, Congress votes to convert the tract into a wildlife refuge and open it to school field trips and public recreation. The site becomes a poster child for eco-friendly nucl ...
Topics: Colorado, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Muckraker, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Splurging General		12 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Splurging General Calling homeland security an environmental issue, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced yesterday that the Justice Department would crack down on companies that failed to protect their plants, pipelines, storage tanks, and transportation systems from terrorist attacks. The attorney general said the department would use civil and criminal lawsuits to enforce compliance with environmental a ...
Topics: Department of Justice, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Black Labs		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Black Labs Private laboratories have been caught faking environmental test results, according to officials in the U.S. EPA and the Justice Department. Companies often use private laboratories to test air, water, soil, petroleum, underground tanks, and other products and indicators; a clean tests yields a certificate of compliance with environmental regulation ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Justice, environmental justice, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Outward Boundary		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Outward Boundary In a federal lawsuit over the legality of a new Navy sonar system said to harm marine animals, the Bush administration is challenging the scope of one of the most important pieces of U.S. environmental legislation, the National Environmental Policy Act. The act requires federal agencies to review the environmental implications of their projects, but the Justice Department ...
Topics: Department of Justice, marine life, NRDC, politics, United States (all these topics)

Caterpillar Metamorphoses Into Beautiful Lobbyist		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Caterpillar Metamorphoses Into Beautiful Lobbyist House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and a coalition of Republican colleagues, manufacturers, and trucking industry reps are pressuring the Bush administration to postpone a strict new anti-pollution standard for diesel trucks. Why? Because Illinois-based Caterpillar ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Justice, health, Illinois, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Victory at Sea		11 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Justice, environmental justice, food and agriculture, marine life, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Ashcroft, Ashcroft, We All Fall Down		09 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: Department of Justice Ashcroft, Ashcroft, We All Fall Down A sweeping "wartime reorganization and mobilization" effort announced by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft yesterday sounds like bad news for environmental and social justice issues. Ashcroft indicated that the Justice Department will scale back or abandon many of its current responsibilities, which range from civil rights enforcement to prosecuting environmental polluters, in order to step up anti-terrorism ...
Topics: Department of Justice (all these topics)

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