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Attorney with group targeting climate scientists' emails featured at Koch-funded conference

By Sue Sturgis

November 4, 2011 - Christopher Horner, director of litigation for the global-warming denier group the American Tradition Institute, is one of the featured speakers at this weekend's Americans for Prosperity conference in Washington, D.C.

Environment

New coal ash hazards come to light as Congress fights regulation

By Sue Sturgis

November 3, 2011 - Soon after the EPA released new data showing the hazards of coal ash ponds, a massive bluff built of coal ash collapsed into Lake Michigan. So why are lawmakers still fighting strict federal oversight of coal ash?

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Who's behind the 'information attacks' on climate scientists?

By Sue Sturgis

October 31, 2011 - Dirty-energy interests, wealthy conservatives and the think tanks they fund have joined forces to target global-warming researchers using the Freedom of Information Act -- and this week they're set for a showdown in a Virginia courtroom.

Environment

FDA underestimated health risks of Gulf seafood following BP disaster, study finds

By Sue Sturgis

October 19, 2011 - The Food & Drug Administration relied on flawed assumptions to allow up to 10,000 times the safe levels of a cancer-causing poison in seafood following the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

States will fight environmentalists over federal coal ash rules

By Sue Sturgis

October 18, 2011 - The House voted last week to block the EPA from regulating coal ash as hazardous waste -- and now state waste officials are gearing up to fight strict federal oversight, too.

INSTITUTE INDEX: States' weak coal ash oversight endangers the public

By Sue Sturgis

August 25, 2011 - When a massive coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee failed back in December 2008, it dumped a billion gallons of coal ash -- the toxic waste left over after burning coal -- into a nearby community and waterways.

Environment

INSTITUTE INDEX: Coal ash hazards still loom

By Sue Sturgis

May 20, 2011 - Number of years since a surface impoundment collapsed at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston coal-fired power plant in eastern Tennessee: almost 2.5

Environment

VOICES: Obama administration must reverse course on coal ash

By Lisa Evans

March 30, 2011 - By Lisa Evans, Earthjustice

Environment

EPA puts off long-promised coal ash protections

By Sue Sturgis

March 7, 2011 - Communities imperiled by poorly managed coal ash won't be getting help from the federal government any time soon.

Southern Republicans launch sneak attack on coal ash regulation through budget bill

By Sue Sturgis

February 17, 2011 - The House is expected to vote as early as today on amendments to a budget bill that would take away the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate toxic coal ash as a hazardous waste.