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      "Poison Papers" Snapshot: Transcript Illustrates EPA Collusion with Chemical Industry

      "Poison Papers" Snapshot: Transcript Illustrates EPA Collusion with Chemical Industry

      The world of independent chemical testing has a shiny veneer. The public is reassured that chemicals they're exposed to on a daily basis are certified by technicians in spotless white lab coats who carefully conduct scientific studies, including on animals in neat rows of cages.

      Rebekah Wilce
      Jul 27, 2017

      The world of independent chemical testing has a shiny veneer. The public is reassured that chemicals they're exposed to on a daily basis are certified by technicians in spotless white lab coats who carefully conduct scientific studies, including on animals in neat rows of cages.

      But a federal grand jury investigation that ended with convictions in the early 1980s discovered that Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT), the largest such lab in the United States, conducted trials with mice that regularly drowned in their feeding troughs. The dead animals would decompose so quickly that "their bodies oozed through wire cage bottoms and lay in purple puddles on the dropping trays." IBT even invented an acronym "TBD/TDA" for its raw safety data, later discovered to mean "too badly decomposed."

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      Trump Administration Continues Attack on Science, Scrubs Data on Climate Change From Interior Department Websites

      Conservationists, Scientist Fight Back With Freedom of Information Act

      Newswire Editor
      May 04, 2017

      As the Trump administration continues to censor science, the Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Media and Democracy and scientist Dr. Stuart Pimm today launched a novel legal strategy to force the Department of the Interior to restore climate change information that was deleted from the agency's website.

      "Scrubbing information about climate change will not make it any less dangerous," said Amy Atwood, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. "We're going to fight the Trump administration's efforts to bury the science showing the dangerous impacts of climate change at every turn."

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      Oklahoma AG Releases 7,564 Pages in Response to CMD Request

      Under court order, Oklahoma Attorney General’s office releases previously withheld emails and holds back others; more emails expected on Feb. 27

      Newswire Editor
      Feb 22, 2017

      As a result of an Open Records Act request and lawsuit filed by the Center for Media and Democracy, on Tuesday night the Oklahoma Attorney General's office released a batch of more than 7,500 pages of emails and other records it withheld prior to Scott Pruitt's nomination as EPA Administrator last Friday.

      The AG's office has withheld an undetermined number of additional documents as exempted or privileged and submitted them to Judge Aletia Haynes Timmons for review. A number of other documents were redacted, and CMD will be asking for the court to review those as well. On February 27, the AG's office has been ordered to deliver records related to five outstanding requests by CMD.

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