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July 29, 2009 - By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest

July 24, 2009 - Earlier this week, I reported that Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR) -- the Blue Dog who has emerged as the leading barrier to the House passing a health care reform bill this summer -- and his personal ties to the health industry.

July 24, 2009 - The crazy quilt of regulations governing coal ash disposal across the United States got a new patch this week when North Carolina lawmakers passed a law requiring stricter regulation of coal ash impoundments, the giant lagoons where utility companies store the nearly 6 million pounds of toxic combustion waste generated each year at electric power plants.

July 21, 2009 - Post-Katrina New Orleans has become the center of a national effort to protect migrant day laborers from wage theft.

July 20, 2009 - North Carolina Gov.

July 17, 2009 - SEN. SESSIONS, RACE AND IMPARTIALITY: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has led his party's hostile questioning of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, charging her with bias because she's acknowledged that being Latina influences the way she thinks. But what about Sessions' own well-documented racial bias? (7/16/2009)

July 17, 2009 - As the health care debate rages on the national scene, in