Toxic Pollution: our Right to Know

From OMB Watch EPA recently announced plans to dismantle the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI), our nation’s premier tool for notifying the public out

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MIT Professor Started a Project to Give Computers to Children in Developing Nations. How might we capitalize on or contribute to that?

These paragraphs are quoted from ABC News Person of the Week: Nicholas Negroponte has created a $100 laptop, the cheapest in the world. Within a

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chmoogle: free chemistry search engine

Chmoogle, a free search engine for open access chemistry information, was just launched. Thanks to Open Access News, SciTech Library Question, and

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Lawyers Without Borders

Bego says that Lawyers Without Borders has found a law firm to represent Chemists Without Borders on a pro bono basis! More on this soon! ELMO

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Incorporation at last!

We have received our articles of incorporation from the CA Secretary of State. Now on to tax-exempt

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PubChem: Alliance for Taxpayer Access Newsletter

Here is the latest news on PubChem, from the ATA Newsletter: For months, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has been on a determined campaign to

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Coal and Fischer-Tropsch

Here’s an interesting Q&A with the Governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer regarding the conversion of coal to liquid HCs: Comments anyone??

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The local factor, Open Access, Alliance for Taxpayer Access

Two separate open access-related topics: The local factor: the ideal is for every community everywhere to have the means and the expertise to lead

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ACS Hurricane Relief Letter

I got this email this morning (posted in its entirety- I will clean up the links when I can) -ELMO: (UPDATE- I tried to put the links in as best I

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We are now on Wikipedia!

Hi all, Just wanted to let everyone know that we now have an article on Wikipedia.

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ACS Committee Members resign to support PubChem!

Two members of an American Chemical Society (ACS) committee have resigned to protest what they say is the society’s tight-lipped handling of

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