News Sieve

- 9/11 cough spreads: Dozens of firefighters from South Florida who worked at Ground Zero are now suffering from health problems. But new federal legislation aimed at helping rescue workers who toiled at Ground Zero and Hurricane Katrina does just the opposite - it leaves them out by requiring a five-year history of “continuous industrial exposure.”

- House Majority Leader Dennis Hastert used a federal earmark to turn a $1.5 million profit (check out the pictures of his lucrative real estate investment). (Think Progress)

- Is meth the next big thing… for a journalist looking for a dramatic headline? Despite the popular belief that there is a growing methamphetamine “epidemic,” its use is actually declining among youth and stabilizing among adults, says a new report by the Sentencing Project.

- New chemical security bill gutted - the chemical industry lobbied to cut requirements that facilities use “inherently safer technologies” - such as safer alternatives to dangerous chemicals. (GovExec.com)

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