Workers' Group Says EPA Censors Comments
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency censored warnings that a Bush administration plan to build roads in national forests could harm drinking water, a group representing government workers said on Monday.
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Lawmakers, music industry executives and rappers disagreed Tuesday over who was to blame for sexist and degrading language in hip hop music but united in opposing government censorship as a solution.
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Former U.S. EPA chief Christie Whitman said Monday the agency did its best to warn workers about environmental hazards after the World Trade Center attack.  Whitman told a congressional committee she did not remember any EPA scientists advising her after the Sept.
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Bush administration officials acknowledged yesterday that they heavily edited testimony on global warming, delivered to Congress on Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after the president's top science adviser and other officials questioned its scientific...
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Allied Chemical Co. deliberately withheld test results in the 1970s that indicated high arsenic levels in a Baltimore park near one of its plants, a task force concluded.
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By MATTHEW VAN DUSEN, STAFF WRITER  Oakland residents and officials spoke against a composting facility on Wednesday, contending it could pollute a nearby well and that its location in the Ramapo River's flood plain would endanger areas downstream.
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Comments from groups and individual Internet users were filed with the FCC.
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It is legal for employers to prohibit works from using company e-mail to send out union-related messages, a federal board has ruled.
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Days after a psychiatrist publicly denounced the state of mental health care at St. Joseph&#39;s Health Care London, hospital officials told employees to sign what some workers are calling a gag order.
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Draft raising the possibility of health threats from industrial pollution was suppressed, author says.
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The Bush administration was accused of ignoring the health problems that arose among workers who toiled at ground zero and the claims of downtown residents who say they were also sickened by the dust.
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The decision was based on a company policy that denies short codes for what it deems controversial issues.
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A German court today sentenced infamous Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel to five years in prison for holding a particularly unpopular opinion.  The irony of jailing people for their beliefs in the name of fighting the neo-Nazi movement seems to be lost on most of the western world, including Canada, which jailed Zundel for two years in a maximum security facility before deporting him to Germany.  Many organizations, such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center, applaud the decision, but sadly lacking is a sense of outrage over the blow that this decision strikes against free speech.  Whatever happened to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"?
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Hundreds of workers rallied on the steps of the Labor Department yesterday to protest the implementation of new rules they say
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency since early 2006 has suppressed warnings from its own field workers about health problems experienced by hurricane victims living in government-provided trailers with levels of a toxic chemical 75 times the recommended maximum for U.S. workers, congressional...
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Belarussian authorities have dismissed the new critical remarks some Western politicians made on Thursday.