August 3, 2009 -
        
  
        Bonner and Associates, a Washington lobbying firm that's working against the federal climate legislation, has been caught forging letters from African-American and Hispanic advocacy groups to a Virginia congressman.    
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        August 3, 2009 -
        
  
        For the past two years, the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission has been crafting new rules to require water monitoring at factory hog farms, a significant source of pollution in the state. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        July 31, 2009 -
        
  
        By Olga Pierce, ProPublica 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        July 31, 2009 -
        
  
        Across the country, states and community organizations continue to prepare their populations for the 2010 Census, underscoring that accurate counts are important to the economic recovery in these states. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        July 30, 2009 -
        
  
        An United Nations advisory group headed to New Orleans this week on a fact-finding mission to investigate housing issues related to the displacement of residents following Hurricane Katrina.