Environment Commissioner Fired, Reportedly Over Advocacy Role
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OTTAWA (CP) - The woman charged with monitoring the government's environmental efforts has been fired.  Environment Commissioner Johanne Gelinas was replaced following months of friction with her boss, Auditor General Sheila Fraser, sources confirmed Tuesday.
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A former project manager for a contaminated mine site said Wednesday he was fired for refusing to keep silent about dangers posed by radioactive and other toxic wastes at the site.
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A longtime local government worker is fired after she cooperates with an investigation of sexual harassment allegations against a high-ranking official. The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether federal civil rights law protects employees from such retaliation.
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By Paul Burgarino  Representatives from one of the worst air pollution regions in California voted last week to join the state in a possible lawsuit against the federal Environmental Protection Agency concerning emissions regulations for newer-model cars.
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A Tennessee state inspector had cited a coal company repeatedly for environmental violations. Fred Thompson, the inspector says, got him removed from the case. It was one episode, early in the legal career of the man who would go on to become an actor, a senator and now a Republican presidential candidate. It still resonates in his home state.
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A controversial figure takes charges of a State Department advisory panel.
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The head of a little-known city commission that granted an early jail release to an influential state senator has resigned under fire.
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The general director of Mexico&#39;s state oil company was fired yesterday amid a scandal involving the use of corporate funds to pay for his wife&#39;s liposuction.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Mark Shade of the Office of the Governor, +1-717-783- 1116; or Christina Novak of DCNR, +1-717-772-9101   HARRISBURG, Pa., March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced the appointment of Dr. James R.
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Two chairmen of key committees in the House and Senate on Wednesday criticized the White House for editing testimony from a government expert about the health impacts of global warming and demanded documents involving the testimony he provided to Congress
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The state&#39;s executive director of public health and the environment is on the short list of people being considered to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
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A political tempest over the mass firing of federal prosecutors escalated yesterday with allegations from the departing U.S. attorney in New Mexico, who said that two members of Congress attempted to pressure him to speed up a probe of Democrats just before the November elections.
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MIAMI, July 9 -- The embattled director of the National Hurricane Center was replaced here today after a brief but turbulent tenure in which he publicly criticized his bosses and then lost the support of much of his staff.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: William Omohundro of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, +1-312-353-8254, omohundro.william@epa.gov   CHICAGO, June 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S.
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WASHINGTON _ In a sharp exchange with House Democrats, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency Friday said he would not decide whether to issue regulations controlling greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles until late next year.
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Senior officer in charge of criminal investigation claims officials treated him as a political problem.
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The president of Canadaâs nuclear industry regulator, embroiled in a dispute with the government over the closing and later reopening of a reactor, was fired.