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 Stories About: Department of Justice AND Muckraker AND politics
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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. ... |
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| Topics: Department of Justice, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Muckraker, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics) |
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