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Interior Sec. Dirk Kempthorne listens to opening remarks as he prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 18, 2008, before a House Natural Resources Committee oversight hearing. (Susan Walsh/AP)

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Big Change Expected at EPA, Interior

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Dept. have been involved in some of the Bush administration's most intense scientific and environmental controversies in the last eight years. Few agencies expect the kind of transformations they both will likely go through under the Obama administration.

In Transition: Possible EPA Adm. and Interior Sec.

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The Census Breau plans to cut spending on advertisng and community outreach for the 2010 census, raising concerns among critics that minorities and illegal immigrants will not be accurately represented.

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