This is an important story that hasn’t been written before.
Carol Smith, a skilled reporter and gifted writer, has documented something that had been rumored for years to be killing medical professionals, proven in peer-reviewed studies, but ignored by government safety regulators.
Spread over most of the front page of today’s Seattle Times, [...]

EPA must be gulping down its energy drinks in large quantities, because after years of allowing corporations to withhold vital safety information, it screamed “stop” yesterday.
In the Federal Register, the agency said that it will no longer permit the obstruction of safety evaluations by allowing firms to hide behind age-old claims of business secrecy.
EPA Administrator [...]

The nation’s top honey packers and sellers gathered in a secret meeting today in a Chicago suburb supposedly to figure out what do about the huge amount of smuggled, laundered and potentially contaminated honey gushing on to the U.S. Market.
“The objective of the meeting will be a frank discussion of issues affecting the domestic honey [...]

The White House patted itself on the back and said that the federal government’s nanotechnology operation was doing a “commendable” job.
These words did not come from President Obama, but rather were the conclusion of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and 12 leading civilian experts recruited to examine what the White House-run [...]

It has taken more than a decade of wrangling but the Environmental Protection Agency has finally said pesticide makers must disclose the hidden ingredients in their poisons.
Yesterday, the agency said it was drafting a new rule which will require manufacturers to fess up and identify the estimated 4,000 different “inert” materials in their [...]

The frequently forgotten and often ignored asbestos victims in Libby, Mont., came out as possible big winners in the dead-of-night battle over health care reform.
According to the Associated Press, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus quietly inserted language in a package of last-minute amendments that will grant the asbestos victims of the tiny town in the [...]

Thousands of Washington lobbyists should really savor their Thanksgiving feast because if President Obama gets his way the gravy train may soon be offering slimmer pickings.
The White House ethics counsel has quietly introduced a new policy which forbids the more than 13,000 lobbyists in the Capitol from holding seats on more than 1,000 federal advisory [...]

As lawmakers in Washington try to control the swirling tornado know as health care reform, a study has been released showing that thousands die each year because they have no health insurance.
What makes the fate of this group of patients even more puzzling is that they are victims of trauma and thought to be protected [...]

You have to wonder a bit about the Environmental Protection Agency’s often-stated promise of transparency and openness to its employee’s opinions.
It appears that the rigidness that marked much of the Bush administration’s control of the EPA has returned, as the agency has threatened “disciplinary action” against two of its lawyers for comments they made [...]

The Coalition for Chemical Safety sounds like just the kind of group to which environmental activists would swarm.